No Family should face a Child’s medical crisis alone.
Hand to Heart Village provides travel, lodging, and meal support for families navigating pediatric medical emergencies — so parents can focus on their child, not on where they’ll sleep tonight.
When a child is hospitalized, families are left to figure out everything else.
Our Programs
Hand to Heart Village supports families across the U.S. navigating complex medical journeys by providing travel, lodging, and meal assistance, along with sibling support and trauma-informed therapy for the whole family.
Travel & Lodging Program
Fuel cards, hotels stays, and emergency travel support so families can stay near their child’s bedside – not in a waiting room or a car.
Whole Family Healing Program
Medical crisis affects every member of the family, not just the patient. This program provides trauma-informed emotional support for siblings and parents navigating fear, grief, and long term stress during a child’s medical journey.
Meal & Nutrition Program
Meal gift cards and hospital cafeteria support so parents don’t skip meals during 12 – hour hospital days.
Future HeartStay Program
A planned network of short stay lodges and residential villages near major children’s hospitals, designed to give families a safe place to stay, rest, and remain together while a child receives extended medical care.
Founded by parents who lived this journey.
Hand to Heart Village was founded by Jennifer and Daniel Hollis, a military family who spent years navigating pediatric hospitals with their medically fragile son. They slept in chairs, drove hundreds of miles between specialists, and watched their daughter carry the heavy emotional weight of being “the sibling.”
They saw the gap: hospitals treat the child, but no one was caring for the whole family. They built Hand to Heart Village to change that — for every family.
Your Gift Turns Crisis into Support
$35
A family meal during a hospital stay
$50
Fuel assistance to help families reach medical care
$200
One night of lodging near the hospital
$300
Emergency assistance when everything hits at once
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We may be a new organization, but we are not new to this journey. Follow along as we build a village of support where no family faces crisis alone and every family has the space and strength to move forward.