For Pete’s Sake – Providing Respite for Families Facing Cancer
Cancer touches us all; FPS unites families through respite and gives them a community to grow with, lean on and learn from forever. You can help us provide respite as part of integrative cancer care. Your donation will impact lives by improving family health outcomes for adult cancer patients, caregivers, and their children. Give now to make a difference.
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Take a Break from Cancer With FPS
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our impact
Respite Changes Lives
Respite has proven therapeutic benefits affecting family, mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, psychosocial and financial health. These benefits impact the patient and the entire family unit, including the caregiver and children. Annually, hundreds of our Oncology Professionals report outcome data to measure improvement in patients and their family’s ability to cope with cancer. Surveyed both pre- and post-respite in the clinical setting, these Nominators report, on average, an increase in coping as follows:
Our Mission
Mission Statement
For Pete’s Sake Cancer Respite Foundation enables cancer patients and their loved ones to strengthen, deepen and unify their relationships by creating unforgettable and lasting respite experiences. Working with oncology professionals at over 100 hospitals and cancer centers, FPS provides transformative respite experiences to cancer patients (ages 21-55), their caregivers and their children and offers our families emotional support that assists them as their journey with cancer continues. Our respite program helps families recognize it is love, not cancer, that defines them.
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FPS Community Events
For Pete’s Sake hosts events throughout the year that not only raise funds to help families take a break from cancer but also provide an opportunity for our community to come together and celebrate the power of togetherness.
#GivingTuesday is November 28!
Join us on November 28 for #Giving Tuesday to continue creating connections through respite! Your gift helps to build a support system for families facing cancer through Respite Experiences. Even better, you can double your donation! All gifts will be matched through the Gene Haas Foundation up to $10K!
Gratitude For Our Supporting Partners
