Meeting Bailey is like absorbing sunshine. Maybe it’s her countless mornings watching the sunrise on Melbourne’s beaches or her many years nannying young kids – you can’t help but feel warmth and love around Bailey. Bailey has always been a star. Imagine 3-year-old Bailey dancing, spinning, and leaping as…
Julianna can find a way forward no matter the setback. Meeting Julianna is like taking a swig of Willy Wonka’s Fizzy Lifting Drink—her vivacious personality and delight for life elevates everyone around her. She just makes you happier, which is extraordinary given that the last two and a half…
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” David says this Grateful Dead quote sums up his almost twenty-year long cancer journey: acute lymphoblastic leukemia, three relapses, a bone marrow transplant, CAR-T, and his most recent battle with osteosarcoma. In some ways, David feels unlucky; cancer has been his whole…
Within Streetlight, Jesse Curtis leaves a unique mark as a beloved member of our family. As Jesse turns 31 and enters his next phase of adulthood, we pause to reflect on the valuable lessons he has to share. Jesse met Streetlight back in 2010 when he moved from…
If you are going to Perry, FL looking for EmmaLeigh, the locals will tell you that all you have to do is listen. “They know I’m back when they hear my truck coming down the road,” she says. And if you’ve heard her truck you would…
SGL: Systems On! is an event series in which we are facilitating more virtual events and social programming in response to the social distancing precautions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Streetlight patients and volunteers will get to participate in all social activities on Discord without needing any…
Congrats to Tyler on finishing Chemotherapy! Check out his End of Chemo Bio, written by our own Emily Sullivan, below: “If you start something, you might as well finish it.” “I have always been that way,” says Tyler. After three years of…
September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month! Follow us on Facebook for updates on weekly Sickle Cell events! …
As we round out 2016, we come together and reflect on ten years of Streetlight support at UF Health. Streetlight began as a gathering of seventeen high school and college students inviting teenage patients to a weekly hospital event called, “Unplugged.” Ten years later we…
Application Process Our application cycle is currently closed. The next time we will be accepting new applications will be from June 22nd – July 17th, 2020, for volunteers beginning their 2-year commitment with Streetlight in Fall 2020. We are staying up to date with new hospital in-person visitation restrictions…
