The Children’s Cancer Cause Survivorship Champion’s Prize is an annual award presented to a group, program or institution making significant advances in programs and services to provide life-long health maintenance for survivors of pediatric cancers.

Since its inception in 2020, the Survivorship Champion’s Prize has awarded $95,000 to a total of fourteen prestigious survivorship programs across the country, enabling these institutions to address disparities in access to care, enhance and expand healthcare transition programs, improve technology, and purchase tablets and books for clinic patients.

These awards recognize the importance of programs to serve the unique challenges associated with the post-treatment services for survivors, especially as they transition to non-oncology adolescent and/or adult health care services. The Survivorship Champion’s Prize is a component of the Stewart Initiative for Childhood Cancer Survivors, an educational program of the Children’s Cancer Cause.

To leverage expertise among Prize recipients, Children’s Cancer Cause has been working with previous winners to share information to identify common clinical issues that can best be addressed through collaboration.

New in 2025: Children’s Cancer Cause debuted a resource center with guidance for institutions interested in creating, expanding, or improving a survivorship care program. If you’re seeking advice from one of these established programs, we provide contact information of program leadership and encourage you to reach out: Survivorship Program Resource Center.

As the recipient of the 2024 Champion’s Prize, the survivorship program at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital joins City of Hope’s Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Program (2023), Phoenix Children’s Hospital Survivorship Program (2022), the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (2021), and Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers Long-Term Survivor Program (2020) as previous Champion’s Prize awardees. 

Former Prize recipients and their Prize-funded projects:

• October 2025: Champion’s Prize Supporting Survivorship Program Growth at Penn State

• June 2025: Champion’s Prize Impact Update: Expanding Resources, Peer Support, and Nutrition Initiatives

• February 2025: 2024 Champion’s Prize: Helping Pennsylvania Survivors

• October 2024: Champion's Prize Enabled City of Hope to Optimize Survivor Services

• June 2024: Champion’s Prize Enabling City of Hope to Serve More Survivors

• January 2024: Champion’s Prize Update from 2023 Recipient City of Hope

• November 2023: Impact Reports from 2022 Champion's Prize Institutions

• October 2023: 2023 Survivorship Prize Awarded to City of Hope Long Term Follow-Up Program

• June 2023:
  - Champion's Prize Helps Launch STEPS Transition Program at Phoenix Children's Hospital →
  - Making an Impact on Survivors at the St. Jude Transition Oncology Program →
  - Champion's Prize Enables ASK Foundation to Tutor More Kids with Cancer and Survivors →
  - Champion's Prize Supports Greater Collaboration in New England through the Perini Clinic at Boston Children's →

• March 2023: Update from 2022 Champion’s Prize Recipients →

• October 2022: 2022 Survivorship Prize Awarded to the Phoenix Children’s Hospital Survivorship Program →

• July 2022: 2021 Champion’s Prize Recipient Updates →

• April 2022: 2021 Champion’s Prize Recipients Share Progress Updates →

• October 2021 Update: Improving Survivor Care, Education, and Research through the Survivorship Champion’s Prize →

• October 2021: Announcement of 2021 Prize recipients →

• May 2021 Update: Our Champion’s Prize is Making an Impact at Survivorship Clinics →

• October 2020: Announcement of 2020 Prize recipients →