Believe In Tomorrow Children's Foundation

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 300,000 overnight accommodations, helping families stay together in the midst of a medical crisis.

Our Programs

Hospital & Respite Housing

The Believe In Tomorrow
House at St. Casimir primarily
serves bone marrow
transplant patients.

Believe In Tomorrow provides exceptional hospital and respite housing services to critically ill children and their families with clean, comfortable facilities that serve as a tool for families to rejuvenate and reconnect.

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

The Hands On™ Adventures program creates unique opportunities for critically ill children to latch on to a sporting event or activity, igniting imaginations. Children who experience one of these adventures learn to believe in and focus on the future rather than the stressful routine of hospital visits.
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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

Lathwell Family It’s a mild Tuesday morning and four Lathwell boys sport matching red thermals while finishing bowls of cereal around the table at the SunTrust Suite in the Believe In Tomorrow House at St. Casimir. Their father, Kevin Lathwell, energetically wipes down the table and introduces the grinning boys.

“They love it here because at home we don’t have a TV,” says Lathwell, who lives an hour and forty minute-drive away from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Hedgesville, W.V. “These are big hockey guys.”
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Family Blog

Our stay at the Believe in Tomorrow House by the sea was fantastic. We were treated so special and it was more than we ever imagined. One of the most memorable nights was the cook-out. Everyone was so nice, the food was great, and the other special families we met will be in our hearts forever. We also have the portrait on the beach of our family and all of the other families so we can look back and remember everyone. I didn’t know what to expect because my kids are 22, 18, and 15 but we really bonded and spent the whole week together. Surf lessons, go kart riding, bike riding, nice dinners, and relaxing on the beach together. We also loved the amazing water part and of course the O.C. Rocket where we even saw dolphins up close. I can’t thank-you enough for letting us be able to share this wonderful experience after such difficult times. Please share my thank-you with all involved in the Believe in Tomorrow Children’s Foundation. Ihope you all know how truly special you are.

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