About Our Mission

Our mission is to provide financial relief and heartfelt support to families fighting pediatric cancers and other life-threatening diseases.

While the majority of our efforts are dedicated to families fighting solid-tumor, pediatric-type cancers, we extend support to families with similar medical situations and urgent, unfulfilled needs.

The focus of our current efforts is to raise funds to help eligible families pay for a variety of significant expenses that mount during the patient's treatment, including:

• Everyday home bills that accumulate due to lost wages of parents (e.g., mortgage, utilities, insurance, etc.)
  
• Transportation to care centers and lodging for family members
  
• Child care
  
• Palliative care
  
• Other special patient needs (medical or non-medical)
  

Our goal is to help over 1,000 families in the next 3-5 years.

Premise of our Cause:

A Menacing Storm: Each year, there are over a million new cases of cancer, 20,000 afflicting patients under the age of 30 and their families. The disease does not discriminate - it affects people of all backgrounds and financial means.

Facing the Tornado: The surprise and trauma of the disease can resemble the sudden devastation of a tornado: One moment, life is safe and normal, and the next it is has been turned upside down with no time to hide or recover.

Attending to Love Ones: Quickly, the only thing that matters to the family is bringing a loved-one back to good health and restoring calm to the family - make the pain go away, get rid of the cancer, return to normalcy, do whatever it takes.

The Ongoing Aftermath: At the same time, life continues to move - the world does not wait. The often-overlooked consequence of the cancer tornado is that thousands of families hit financial and emotional breaking points.

Staying Afloat: Many families struggle tirelessly to keep the calm, stay on top of difficult financial conditions, and help bring health back to their loved one fighting cancer. The drain can be catastrophic, and lasting.

Family Reach exists to help families get through this unimaginable storm.