About Believe In Tomorrow
We Believe in keeping families together during a child’s medical crisis, and that the gentle cadence of normal family life has a powerful influence on the healing process. We believe the highest standards of service and unparalleled hospitality help create a unique healing environment, where families find hope and comfort. Since 1986, Believe In Tomorrow has provided over 560,000 individual overnight accommodations, helping families stay together in the midst of a child's medical crisis.
“Thank you for all of the wonderful things you have done for me and my family while I am at Hopkins. This is a wonderful place to stay!” – Andrew, age 13, Hopkins patient
Our Programs
Hospital & Respite Housing
The Believe In Tomorrow
House at St. Casimir
serves bone marrow
transplant patients.
Our hospital housing facilities, the Believe In Tomorrow Children’s House at Johns Hopkins and the House at St. Casimir, serve as national models for other hospital housing programs. St. Casimir is the only hospital housing facility in the nation dedicated exclusively to pediatric bone marrow transplant patients. The Children's House, our largest and most recognizable facility, sits just across the street from Johns Hopkins hospital and is viewed as a leading pediatric hospital facility.
Our five respite facilities were the first and remain the only of their kind in the nation. Families who experience our properties discover the serenity, proximity, and time needed to bond and mend the supportive web of family life.
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Hands On Adventures
Military Initiative
Military families find comfort
and hope at our facilities.
When a child receiving treatment for a life-threatening illness has a parent in the United States Armed Services, many times the family is far from home without the support of an extended community. In today’s environment, one parent will likely deploy during the child’s treatment. Believe In Tomorrow works to alleviate the difficulties and stress military families often experience while caring for a critically ill child. In 2005, we made the decision to prioritize military pediatrics in the respite housing program.
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Our Participants
Family Stories
If you’ve seen the animated movie, Shrek, you may know that Princess Fiona is beautiful, fun-loving, and very brave, having overcome some serious challenges while growing up. This must ring true for all girls named Fiona, as little miss Fiona Rice from Summerville, South Carolina sure proves it to be so!
Fiona was born in September 2009 in Guam, where her dad, Tighe, was stationed with the Air Force. Fiona’s parents and older sister, Finlee, were thrilled with this new little bundle of smiling joy that had entered their lives. At just one month old, Fiona began having severe fevers and doctors realized that she had meningitis. She was quickly treated and released from the hospital. But as the months passed, her parents noticed that she wasn’t quite hitting all the typical baby mile markers. An MRI scan showed that the meningitis had reached her brain and caused a loss of about 40% of brain tissue, resulting in brain damage and developmental delays.