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About Streetlight

Community Partners

Children’s Miracle Network Thanks to Children’s Miracle Network for their continued support of Streetlight! Climb for Cancer Thank you to our friends at Climb for…

Program Professionals

About the Streetlight Director Emily Marchi, MS Email: e.sullivan@peds.ufl.edu Emily Marchi (she/her) initially began her involvement with Streetlight as a volunteer during her time as an undergrad at the University of Florida. Through her service work, she discovered her passion for working with chronically ill adolescents and young adults. …

Challenges for Teens in the Hospital

Sometimes teens and young adults who are in the hospital feel…. Bored Having mom as your only company and watching TV all day gets old real fast. It can get old to be stuck in a hospital room. The Streetlight team brings team members with shared interests like movies,…

What is Palliative Care?

Palliative Care is not hospice. Palliative care and hospice care are often confused because both are forms of comfort care, but hospice care is comfort care for someone dying with a chronic or life-threatening illness. Palliative Care is comfort care for someone living with it. What they have in…

About Us

Streetlight supports adolescents and young adults, ages 13-30 here at UF Health. Our patients live with a variety of chronic illnesses, including cancer, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell, autoimmune illnesses, organ transplantation, gastrointestinal illnesses, and other chronic and life-limiting illnesses. Medicine can do a lot, but there are…