GKWCF provides the following:
1. Genre’s Kids with Cancer Fund offers a handheld electronic video system with two game cartridges, mp3/iPod, or Leapster educational game. If the child already owns a system, they receive two new games. There are 8-10 new cancer diagnoses at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh each month.
2. Genre’s Kids with Cancer Fund provides each family with a “go bag” filled wi
th items and necessary toiletries to use during lengthy hospitalization stays. The bags are full of personal supplies for the very shocked and unprepared parent who has just heard the words, ‘your child has cancer’.
3. Genre’s Kids with Cancer Fund has partnered with licensed pediatric oncology social workers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh who selectively refer oncology families to our organization based on immediate need. We are committed to providing financial assistance because the disease is devastating. Its impact is challenging and the needs are great. Some families may need assistance with parking and travel costs while others may need help with child care for their other children. Often, parents take Family and Medical Leave and fall behind on their monthly bills. We supply the social workers with gas gift cards to be distributed at their discretion to families who travel from long distance into Pittsburgh. We serve all Pennsylvania regions, Ohio and West Virginia – if a family was admitted onto the oncology floor of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, we will help them no matter where they live.
4. Genre’s Kids with Cancer Fund offers a Christmas Family program to the Pittsburgh community. Needy families who are living through childhood cancer are provided for through Christmas, providing for needs and some special wants.