HOW WE HELP

Children’s Cancer Partners serves children and youth battling cancer across the Carolinas, ensuring access to lifesaving pediatric cancer treatments and overcoming all the hidden costs beyond clinical care.

The Reality Families Face

The problem is bigger than most people realize. Only larger cities have pediatric cancer treatment centers. Distance to cancer care is hard for most families: hours on the road, missed work and wages, childcare for siblings, and the relentless pressure of making treatment decisions while trying to keep life from falling apart. It’s scary, stressful,  overwhelming.

Children in rural and low-income households and communities face 3X higher risk of missed or late diagnosis, incomplete treatments, relapse, or even death. These disparities are driven almost entirely by distance-to-care and limited family resources. In other words: geography and money threaten outcomes, and that’s unacceptable.

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A CCP family learns how to fish at the Fishing Rodeo.

Our Commitment

That’s why Children’s Cancer Partners exists. To our knowledge, no other nonprofit in the country provides our depth of immediate, comprehensive, and continuous support for children and families facing childhood cancer, especially the hidden expenses insurance doesn’t cover. Once a hospital social worker refers a family to us, we don’t offer a one-time fix. We stay with them, regardless of income or where they are in the journey, until the child’s 21st birthday.

How It Works

Within 24 hours of a referral, one of our master's-level Family Navigators connects 1:1, assesses the family’s capacity for care and financial needs, and links them to local resources and a community of other families who understand.

We follow and support the family for the long haul, helping with practical needs, showing up on birthdays for the patient and their siblings. If the unimaginable happens, we assist with funeral expenses and honoring that child every year on their birthday and passing anniversary with a holiday ornament. They are never forgotten.

No one budgets for cancer.

Our Impact

When families have our support, treatment stays on track - and they feel relief. They feel supported. They’re not trying to do the impossible alone.

This year, we will serve over 2,800 Carolina families, providing over $1,000,000 for meals and over 2 million miles of travel reimbursements, removing barriers that would otherwise keep care out of reach.

If you’re ready to help a Carolina family keep going, donate today or become a monthly partner. Our work is community-powered. Without government funding, our ability to support every child referred to us depends on charitable gifts, volunteers, corporate partners, and community programs like Kidz In Lids. With your help, children will get the care and cures they need.

With your help, the disparities go away, and the burdens get lighter. Kids get the help their families didn’t know how to find, and a fighting chance against cancer, with all of us beside them.