Kids Konnected received a grant to fund 20 support group participants in their annual Youth Leaders Retreat. Their mission is to provide friendship, understanding, education and support for youth who have a parent with cancer or who have lost a parent with cancer.
Kids Konnected serves youth experiencing feelings of isolation, depression and anxiety as a result of the tumult of a parent’s cancer diagnosis, treatment and sometimes death. They help connect the children of cancer patients in a supportive community where they can draw strength from their peers and have been doing so since 1993. Some kids who go through the program come back as youth leaders to be role models and mentors to elementary aged students that are unfortunately going through similar circumstances.