THE CHILDRENS TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Our Mission is to ensure that every child whose parent is diagnosed with cancer is given the early tools and emotional support to cope. Our Vision imagines a world where preventing the inevitable psychosocial impact on children whose parents have cancer is taken as seriously as finding a cure for cancer itself. Our Goal is to have the CLIMB® Program operating in every cancer center in the US by 2030 and in as many international cancer centers as possible.
About This Cause
The Children’s Treehouse Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Denver, Colorado with the mission of improving psychosocial adjustment in children, ages 5 through 18, who have a parent or grandparent with cancer. The Children's Treehouse Foundation has created a research-based, psychosocial intervention, group-support program called CLIMB®- Children's Lives Include Moments of Bravery. CLIMB® helps to normalize feelings of sadness, anxiety, fear and anger for the kids and stimulates improved communication between the children and their parents. CLIMB® is the only group-based, manualized, and internationally delivered intervention that has been developed specifically for children with a parent or caregiver with cancer. Our Mission is to ensure that every child whose parent is diagnosed with cancer is given the early tools and emotional support to cope. Our Vision imagines a world where preventing the inevitable psychosocial impact on children whose parents have cancer is taken as seriously as finding a cure for cancer itself. Our Goal is to have the CLIMB® Program operating in every cancer center in the US by 2030 and in as many international cancer centers as possible. The Children’s Treehouse Foundation trainsoncology social workers, child life specialists, nurses and other oncology professionals at cancer centers internationally to deliver our program.Our model - training oncology professionals that are already in cancer centers and already working with cancer patients with children – means we are highly scalable and have rapidly established an international footprint. Founded in January of 2001 by Peter van Dernoot, the CLIMB® Program is now available in 56 cancer centers in the U.S. and 26 additional centers in 5 other countries. We have trained 420 oncology professionals since we began and CLIMB® serves an estimated 1560 children representing almost 500 families every year. In 2020, both the training for oncology professionals and the groups for children and teens were moved online.