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Resources for Families

Camp Kesem provides a one week summer sleepaway camp for kids ages 6-16 with parents who have or have had cancer. Camp Applications are available at http://www.campkesem.org/asu.

Kids Konnected provides information and support to kids who have a parent with cancer http://www.kidskonnected.org/

CareCare provides free, professional support services to anyone affected by cancer: people with cancer, caregivers, children, loved ones, and the bereaved http://www.cancercare.org/

American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering http://www.cancer.org/

Lance Armstrong Foundation unites people to fight cancer believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything http://www.livestrong.org/

Susan G. Komen for the Cure is fighting every minute of every day to finally, once and for all, to finish what they started and achieve their vision of a world without breast cancer http://www.komen.org/

Books:
Sammy’s Mommy Has Cancer by Sherry Kohlenberg
This is a warm, sensitive, straightforward story to help young children understand the changes in their lives when a parent is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.