Comfort
And Care
For Teens
Thoughtfully designed care packages for teen cancer patients and their siblings—providing comfort, dignity, and connection during stressful hospital visits and long treatment days.
About Us
Teen Cancer Care provides curated care packages for teens facing cancer and for siblings who are often overlooked during treatment. Each package offers modest yet meaningful tools for comfort, calm, and connection.
What We Offer
We partner with hospital child life specialists to deliver age-appropriate care packages directly to families during treatment. Our approach is practical, dignified, and responsive to clinical insight.
Journals, puzzles, and games that encourage quiet focus or shared play
Fidgets and calming materials for managing anxiety during long waits
Art supplies for self-expression and distraction
Handwritten notes to signal care, recognition, and inclusion
Who We Are
Teen Cancer Care began when founder Hanna Ajemian witnessed how isolating and disorienting serious illness can be for teens and their families. After experiencing medical quarantine in her own household and seeing how often siblings disappear from the picture during treatment, she launched TCC in 2022 as part of her Mitzvah project. Guided by child life specialists, she developed care packages that attend to immediate, high-intensity needs in hospital settings—small interventions that clinicians say can brighten a day, ease anxiety, and draw siblings back into connection.Following her experience with Teen Cancer Care, Hanna launched the Maine Youth Creative Care initiative, of which TCC remains a key pillar.
Hanna Ajemian
Hanna Ajemian is a student who founded Teen Cancer Care after confronting the emotional strain of her father’s cancer treatment and quarantine. Using her Bat Mitzvah funds and guidance from child life specialists, she designed and hand-assembles TCC packages, coordinating ongoing deliveries to ensure families have consistent access to supportive materials.
Get Involved
If your hospital would like to provide Teen Cancer Care packages for patients, or your school or community group would like to support the program, please get in touch!
Our Work
Over the past three years, Teen Cancer Care has delivered more than 100 care packages to Maine Children’s Cancer Program—supporting over 400 family members and reaching an estimated 30–40% of pediatric cancer patients statewide and 67–80% across Greater Portland.For hospitals interested in integrating Teen Cancer Care packages, and for students or community groups seeking to support the program, please contact us.
Our Impact
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Teen Cancer Care packages consistently meet families at exactly the moment they need support. Patients and siblings use them during long procedures, anxious waits, and difficult days. I’ve requested more because they are genuinely making a difference.
— Kelly A. Hannigan
Hematology/Oncology Certified Child Life Specialist, MaineHealth Hospital
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If your hospital would like to provide Teen Cancer Care packages for patients, or your school or community group would like to support the program, please get in touch!
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