The Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT) at Texas Children's Hospital provides palliative care to children and families facing serious, often life threatening illness. We provide medical, nursing, spiritual, psychosocial and emotional support to patients and their families both in the hospital and at home. Our goal is to opimize the quality of life for these patients, help families navigate complex medical decisions and assist with developing care plans that incorporate familiy goals and values. The vast majority of our care is not covered by health insurance and requires significant support from generous donors.

Our team also coordinates bereavement support for families of children who sadly died of illness or injury. We host an annual candlelighting event to honor and remember children who have died too soon, provide support groups and parent mentoring. We host the ceremony both in person and livestream to celebrate the lives of these special children.

We are raising funds to help support our patients and families as they face their many hurdles and to continue to provide needed bereavement support to grieving families. We appreciate your support of palliative care and on behalf of PACT, our patients and families, we thank you!