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…
Come and read,Remember it’s the season for Streetlight’s Brief,Wrapping year twenty twenty-four Changes seen,The landscape flipped we had to grow Watch our dream,“Don’t Stop Me Now,” our video: What a year,So…
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…
Once a year, I send an emailed reflection to everyone in our Streetlight community. We offer thanks to our volunteers, our patients, our team at UF Health, and the individuals in the community that enable Streetlight support through their valuable giving. Not everyone likes reading a…
Once a year, I send an emailed reflection to everyone in our Streetlight community. We offer thanks to our volunteers, our patients, our team at UF Health, and the individuals in the community that enable Streetlight support through their valuable giving. Not everyone likes reading a newsletter, so I…
Every December, our Director reflects on the year and shares a reflection on all the Streetlight community has experienced. Here is this year’s reflection from Emily Marchi. This is the season where we reflect on all of the ways we’ve grown over the last year as a Streetlight…
Annual Brief 2020 Artwork created by a patient serving on the Streetlight Gaming League Steering Committee. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller Preparing our end of the year newsletter is always a very…
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…
