Local Support Resources and Community Partners
Bee Mighty provides financial assistance and therapeutic support to families of premature or medically fragile infants in the Charlotte region. The organization helps bridge the gap between what insurance covers and what a child truly needs to thrive, ensuring that families can access life-changing therapies, equipment, and developmental services.
Bee Mighty supports families through:
- Therapy & Developmental Grants: Funding for PT, OT, speech therapy, feeding therapy, and developmental programs.
- Medical Equipment Support: Assistance securing equipment like adaptive seating, mobility devices, or sensory tools not covered by insurance.
- Family & Community Connection: Events, stories, and peer encouragement for families of NICU graduates.
- Advocacy & Awareness: Outreach efforts that highlight the needs of medically fragile children and strengthen community support.
Madelyn’s Fund supports families with infants in the NICU and those grieving the loss of an
infant. Their mission is to ease the financial strain that accompanies long NICU stays, unexpected
medical crises, and heartbreaking loss, so families can focus on healing and caring for their child
Madelyn’s Fund helps families by providing:
- NICU Financial Assistance: Support for housing, transportation, meals, parking, and other essential costs during a baby’s NICU stay.
- Bereavement Support: Financial help with funeral and memorial expenses for families who have experienced infant loss.
- Emergency and Medical Expense Relief: Assistance with urgent needs related to a child’s care and sustained hospitalization.
- Family Support & Community Engagement: Awareness events and connection pathways for families navigating NICU journeys and grief.
Bereavement Support
Judy’s Way provides compassionate financial support to families in the Charlotte region who are grieving a loss.. Created in honor of Judy, whose legacy centers on love, generosity, and family support, the fund helps ease the unexpected financial burdens that accompany a child’s death. Their goal is to provide families with dignity, relief, and space to focus on healing during an unimaginably difficult time.
Judy’s Way supports families by offering:
- Financial Assistance After the Loss of a Child: Help covering funeral, memorial, and burial expenses.
- Immediate Crisis Support: Rapid-response financial relief for urgent needs that arise at the
time of loss. - Partnership with Local Healthcare Teams: Close collaboration with care providers at Levine
Children’s and surrounding hospitals to identify families in need quickly and
compassionately.
KinderMourn offers counseling and support for grieving families, including parents who have lost
a child and children who have lost a sibling. Their specialized, compassionate programs help
families navigate grief with ongoing therapeutic support.
Their programs include:
- Individual and group counseling
- Support for parents after pregnancy or infant loss
- “Children’s Grief Groups” for grieving youth
- Community education and remembrance events