Helping families navigate the unthinkable.
When your child is hospitalized, no one hands you a manual. Sophia's Angels gives parents the tools, the community, and the calm to get through it, one day at a time.
- A step-by-step healing and coping course, ready the moment you need it
- Real techniques you can use at the bedside: massage, aromatherapy, visualization
- A community of parents who have already walked this road
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When Vivian Hartman's daughter was hospitalized, she didn't just endure the fear and chaos. She transformed it into purpose.
She co-founded Sophia's Angels as a sanctuary for parents and caregivers who find themselves where she once was: scared, overwhelmed, and desperate for answers.
At Sophia's Angels, you'll find more than resources.
- Relieffor the moments that feel like too much
- Guidanceemotional and spiritual, from someone who has been there
- Communitybuilt on love, strength, and each other
No one should face a child's hospital journey alone.
Turning devastation into strength, one family at a time.
A child's cancer diagnosis can leave parents feeling helpless. We believe parents aren't bystanders. They're powerful healers. Through reflexology, aromatherapy, and visualization, we help you take part in your child's healing and offer comfort through the power of love.
Empowering parents
Standing beside families in their toughest battles with the knowledge, tools, and nurturing community to find strength in the face of uncertainty.
Improving hospital life
Transforming sterile rooms into nurturing spaces with art, comforting posters, and stuffed animals, inspired by Vivian's care for Sophia's own healing space.
Changing the system
Championing Sophia's Act in California to keep children insured without a lapse, and pushing for the funding that makes it real.
Trusted by families and partnered with
Six commitments, made and kept.
- a
Empower parents to relieve their child's cancer-treatment symptoms with simple, hands-on techniques.
- b
Teach parents how to advocate confidently for their child's care with doctors and nurses.
- c
Encourage fun living during hospital stays, including respite and self-care for the caregiver.
- d
Promote bone marrow awareness and how easy it is to get tested for a match.
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Close the insurance gap that can leave a child uninsured for up to a week between plans, through "Code Life."
- f
Provide grocery and restaurant gift cards so families can keep their child eating well.
Small comforts. Real impact.
Love, at the bedside and beyond.
The families, volunteers, and small comforts that make up Sophia's Angels.
Sophia's Angels began with Sophia and the love of her mother, Vivian.
When Sophia became seriously ill with leukemia, Vivian experienced firsthand how overwhelming and lonely life can feel for a parent sitting beside a sick child. Even surrounded by medical care, families can still need comfort, guidance, and someone who truly understands.
After Sophia's passing, Vivian turned that love and experience into a mission: to help other parents feel more supported, informed, and less alone.
Today, Sophia's Angels carries Sophia's legacy forward through free parent education, family resources, Love Kits, outreach, and advocacy.
Sophia is why we started.
Families are why we keep going.
"Based on our experience with our 12-year-old daughter Sophia, who lived with refractory leukemia — once a child is admitted for a sudden illness, they may be in for a day, a week, or months. A child has to be fit for life before they're able to leave home."
With our encouragement, you will love your child through the painfulness of what they're suffering, helping you see and enjoy the moments of life with a different eye. It is all about love.
"Today I am healed from the ailment of this day, until I have a great day. Then a great week. Then a great month. Then a great year. And then, finally, a great life."
Sophia Hartman, April 11, 1993 – October 14, 2005
Six cities. One proclamation.
Sophia's Angels has partnered with Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Fernando, Cudahy, Bell, and San Gabriel to proclaim a Bone Marrow Awareness Month, educating our communities on the life-saving gift of donation.
Every gift keeps a family from facing this alone.
Your donation goes straight to the families and the causes Sophia's Angels was built for.
- Love KitsComfort and care delivered to families
- Healing oilsComfort tools parents can use at the bedside
- Gift cardsGroceries and meals so families can keep their child eating well
- Comfort itemsClown noses, art, and stuffed animals for hospital rooms
- Marrow drivesFinding matches that save lives
- Sophia's ActKeeping children insured without a lapse
We're holding your hand. You're not alone.
Whatever today looks like, here are three ways to reach us. Choose the one that feels easiest.
- aStart the free courseHealing and coping tools, available right away
- bCall us818-362-8677
- cSend a messageUse the form and our team will reach out.
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