The National Outreach Program aims to deliver CanKids KidsCan models for Change for Childhood Cancer in India and holistic patient-centred care to children with cancer and their families across the country.
Change for Childhood Cancer
At our centers across the country, we:
- Identify needs and gaps
- Provide social support teams and holistic social support services (social workers, database managers, psychologists, nutritionists, teachers, and parents and childhood cancer survivors who work as patient navigators and advocates)
- Build capacities of health and social support professionals
- Promote and supporting research and impact assessment
- Advocate for children with cancer and their families to treating teams and hospital administrations.
A state-by-state focus helps in looking at epidemiology, mapping treatment centres, systematically building a network of access to care and support, creating awareness and advocating for childhood cancer control plans, policies, and programs to State Governments.
We have a presence in multiple states and union territories, including Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu & UT Puducherry, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand, Delhi NCR, Punjab & UT Chandigarh (also covering Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Ladakh, and Jammu & Kashmir), Maharashtra, Goa, North East region, Gujarat & UT Daman, Diu, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Bihar & Jharkhand, Kerala, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, and Odisha.
CanKids also has MoUs with state governments to improve Access2Care for children with cancer.
CanKids Hospital Support Units
CanKids partners with the childhood cancer treating centres and hospital administrations, providing dedicated manpower, social support services, building capacities, promoting and conducting research and filling whatever gaps need to be filled each year to enable families who reach the centre to get best standards of treatment care and support.
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CanKids works with state governments and all relevant stakeholders to ensure that families get best Access2Care – through appropriate knowledge of where to go, timely diagnosis and treatment, shared care and continuity of care, awareness, and access to care information and resources.
Regional & State Care Coordination Centres
CanKids’ delivers crucial services through our signature program, YANA (You Are Not Alone). The program assists patients and their families at every step of the way, from detection, to treatment, and after. Our Regional and State Care Coordination Centres (RCCC/SCCC) act as Hubs for Change for Childhood Cancer. These centres perform the following six functions:
Mandala of Care
A Child and Family-Centred Model of Care
CanKids KidsCan’s Mandala of Care™ is a holistic, collaborative, and integrated framework that places the child and family at the centre of everything we do. It recognizes that successful childhood cancer outcomes require more than medical treatment alone—they require coordinated support across health systems, communities, governments, caregivers, and civil society.
The Mandala of Care™ guides CanKids’ work across the childhood cancer continuum, ensuring that every child receives equitable access to care, comprehensive support, and the opportunity to survive and thrive.
The framework is built around seven interconnected pillars that strengthen childhood cancer systems of care while responding to the needs of children and families.
The Seven Pillars
Sahbhaagita – Engaging communities and stakeholders for shared ownership and impact.
Sajhakaran – Building partnerships and alliances for collective strength and sustainable action.
Samanvay – Coordinating care across the continuum and systems to improve treatment outcomes.
Sugamikaran – Improving access to quality care, services, and financial protection.
Seva – Delivering compassionate, holistic, and family-centred support.
Sakshamikaran – Empowering children, families, professionals, and systems to thrive.
Sanshodhan – Generating evidence, research, and innovation to improve outcomes and strengthen policy.
The 7S Mandala of Care Framework
The 7S Mandala of Care Framework is CanKids KidsCan’s systems approach to improving childhood cancer outcomes in resource-constrained settings. It integrates governance, care coordination, shared care, financial protection, supportive care, capacity building, research, and innovation into a single child-centred framework.
The framework supports governments, healthcare institutions, civil society organizations, researchers, and communities to work together towards a common goal: ensuring that every child with cancer has access to timely diagnosis, treatment, support, survivorship care, and protection of their rights.
By placing the child and family at the centre, the framework promotes collaboration across stakeholders while strengthening health systems and improving equity in access to care.
Outcome Goals
The 7S Framework is designed to contribute towards:
100% Access to childhood cancer care
100% Financial Protection for families
Improved Survival Outcomes
Realization of Child Rights
Meaningful Patient and Family Voice in care and decision-making
Geographical Reach
CanKids has signed MoUs with the State Governments of Punjab, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry and Uttar Pradesh. We are grateful to each for their support.
Government & State Partners
