Helpful Resources
First Aid for People with Cancer
Cancer, also known as malignancy, is not just one disease but a collection of diseases. These conditions often include a disruption in physical and mental wellbeing, side effects from treatment, painful procedures, financial burden, and difficult decision making.
Costumes for Courage
Costumes For Courage 501(c)(3) is a non-profit organization that provides costumes to children receiving chemotherapy treatment or facing significant medical challenges to give them strength and courage to get through whatever challenges they are facing.
Asbestos.com and The Mesothelioma Center
This article is written for adult cancer, but has some great tips for any cancer diagnosis.
Camp Wapi Yapi
A summer camp for children facing pediatric cancer and their siblings. Offered at no cost to their families.
Childhood Cancer License Plate
The Colorado Childhood Cancer Awareness license plate is a Colorado Group Special license plate that creates awareness for childhood cancer and shows kids, teens, and young adults battling cancer that they are not alone in their fight. Proceeds from the license plate will benefit two local nonprofit organizations that are helping in the fight against kids’ cancer: The Morgan Adams Foundation and Cops Fighting Cancer.
Morgan Adams Foundation
The Morgan Adams Foundation raises money and awareness on behalf of children with cancer. Working with leading physicians, we use donations to directly fund pediatric cancer research and therapies which will improve survival rates and reduce the devastating side-effects of cancer treatments.
There with Care
Since 2005, There With Care has been providing support for families during the critical phase of a medical crisis, easing their daily stresses with compassion and care.
Momcology
HopeKids provides ongoing events, activities and a powerful, unique support community for families who have a child with cancer or some other life-threatening medical condition. We surround these remarkable children and their families with the message that hope can be a powerful medicine.
HopeKids
HopeKids provides ongoing events, activities and a powerful, unique support community for families who have a child with cancer or some other life-threatening medical condition. We surround these remarkable children and their families with the message that hope can be a powerful medicine.
Chemo Duck
Gabe’s Chemo Duck Program™ is a unique educational program offered by Gabe’s My Heart, a nonprofit organization that supports children and families living with cancer. Created by a mother for her son Gabe when he was diagnosed with cancer at a young age, Chemo Duck is a soft, cuddly companion that provides huggable hope and alleviates fear and anxiety. Developed with the help of child life specialists and medical professionals, the Chemo Duck Program helps introduce children and families to their new life and encourages healing through the power of play therapy.
Bags of Fun
What began as a mother’s wish to offer a playful respite for her daughter fighting brain cancer has now become a movement to reclaim the innocence and playfulness of childhood for those that are threatened by the realities of their medical conditions. Bags of Fun are an essential tool that brings the power of play into the hospitals. For the child it brings instant excitement and a distraction from their pain, illness and anxiety. For parents, it is gratitude at a time when being thankful and hopeful is not often possible. Since inception of the program in 2004, Bags of Fun has fulfilled every request from the participating hospitals. It is our annual goal to be able to fund 100% of the requests and to not have to deny any requests.