TOGETHER, WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE
PASIC currently provide practical, social, emotional and financial support to over 400 families of children and young people with cancer in the East Midlands. For many, PASIC are a social lifeline at their most traumatic and distressing time. Just a few of the initiatives they have put in place are outlined here.
Support on the Wards
They support parents and carers on children's cancer wards at Leicester, Northampton and Nottingham's Children's Hospitals. And when the family returns home, they're on hand to relieve their sense of despair.
Support Groups
Offering support groups, advice, signposting for families, including online support, so they always have someone to reach out to when times get tough.
Providing Grants
Providing grants to help families cope with the hidden costs of having a seriously ill child. As well as compassionate grants to support with funeral costs when young people don't recover.
Activities
They offer fun respite activities on children's cancer wards to make hospital stays more fun and that little bit easier - and because first and foremost children need to be children.
Days Out
The organisation of days out and events for the whole family to reduce isolation, strengthen relationships, provide opportunities to access peer supprot and enjoy some much-needed 'normal' family fun.
