The EverHeld Foundation was created from the belief that families facing the hardest seasons of life deserve more support, more compassion, and more care.
There is a moment in hospice work that most people never see. It happens after the nurses leave and the medications are settled and the medical piece is in place. It is the moment a parent looks up from the bedside and realizes that the rest of their life has completely fallen apart.
The bills didn’t stop. The other kids still need to eat. The job is gone or going. The car is on empty. And somewhere in the back of their mind, before they are ready to think about it, they know there is a funeral coming that they cannot afford.
The EverHeld Foundation was built for that moment. Not the medical moment — the human one. The one where a family needs someone to carry something so they can put it down and just be with their child.
We could not look away from it any longer. So we built something.
Executive Director & Co-Founder
Jeannette has spent her career fighting for something most people do not fully understand, that hospice is not giving up, it is showing up. From oxygen and DME through IV infusion and home health to fifteen years directly in hospice, she has walked every step of the patient journey. She built EverHeld because she could not watch another family break under the financial weight of an already impossible situation.
Co-Founder
Children served by California’s Pediatric Palliative Care Waiver Program in fiscal year 2022, yet many families still face unmet financial burdens.
Children’s hospital in Orange County with a dedicated pediatric palliative care program, serving one of the most populated regions in the country.
Families who should have to navigate this alone. No family is turned away. No burden is too small to matter.
Full, unhurried care that honors who they are and the life they have lived.
When a child is ill the whole family suffers. Our support wraps around everyone.
Transparency and integrity are the foundation of everything we do.
Financial circumstances do not determine access to support.
We show up with a human being who is ready to help.
As long as a child is on hospice and a family has financial need, we are here.