We are a 501(c)3 charitable nonprofit crisis organization that supports children while their family member transitions through a critical illness, hospice care or death. It is offered to young children, teens, and adolescents.

Carl's Butterflies was conceived after, Founder Jacqueline Alston-Gordon's husband, Carl, was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Watching her children grieve as their father went through two biopsies, chemotherapy, in-home hospice, and ultimate death, she came to understand the tremendous impact this trauma had on her children's lives. At one point, her 9-year-old daughter asked if there was a group for kids like her who were going through this sort of "transition." Thus Carl's Butterflies was created.