Family Support Services

12-year-old Carmelina Durocher doesn't let her health challenges get in the way of helping others.  

Ben Manzi may be just seven years old, but he's already worked up an entire lifetime of courage. Diagnosed with leukemia just six months ago, his family has already started a non-profit to help others as a way of repaying the love they've felt from both loved ones and strangers. 

16-year-old Mia Gasperini talks about how the pediatric procedure unit at Baystate Children's Hospital helps her manage her life changing diagnosis.   At 14-years-old Mia was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, an auto immune disorder which attacks the place where the nerve and the muscles meet.   

1-year-old Gage Sheldon was born premature and has been on oxygen since birth. Get a behind the scenes look at the moment his family was told he was cleared to come off oxygen, just in time for 1st birthday.

Growing up is hard enough, but for kids with Irritable Bowel Disease, it can be embarrassing. As Celine can attest, knowing they’re not alone and learning from the experts and other patients provides some much-needed support, especially as they transition to adult care.

12- year-old Brianna Sulikowski of Southampton doesn’t let her heart defect hold her back. See what she has been able to accomplish despite being born with a heart defect.

The EyeSEE Program gives 5-Year-Old Josciah Tyburski-Rivera of Springfield a new outlook on life.

It’s often easy for people to take for granted the enjoyable routines of everyday life.  Not the Stark family of Hampden, though. Like most other families who go to battle with pediatric cancer, it’s the simple and “normal” days they began yearning for a long time ago.