My Child’s Hand is a helping hand reaching out to fill a special need of families with a child fighting cancer and other devastating illnesses. For families embattled in a fight for life, there is often no place to turn for assistance when financial emergencies associated with everyday life arise. My Child’s Hand is a non-profit organization whose mission is to act as a last-resort resource when emergency assistance is necessary because all sources of financial aid have been exhausted. When there is no other place to turn, My Child’s Hand will be there to help keep the lights and heat on, or provide patient transportation to the treatment center, see that medications are provided, or to ease whatever emergency financial burden threatens to interfere with the family’s ability to fully concentrate on the major issues of treatment and recovery.

My Child’s Hand was founded by the Pasqua family whose daughter Christie was diagnosed with leukemia in December 1992 at the age of five. During  Christie’s two years of treatment, and in the years following her cure, Lory and Billy Pasqua met many other families that were battling childhood cancer, many successfully and others who were not as fortunate. In going through the treatment process and talking to other families about their experiences, one thing quickly became clear – along with the treatments, hospital stays and doctor’s appointments and the ever-present devotion of a family towards caring for a child with cancer, there are still the problems and responsibilities of dealing with everyday life.

Time spent with an ill child and financial circumstances often combine to force a financial emergency on the family to which no social institution is geared to respond. While social service agencies, governmental programs and private insurers provide assistance for treatments and medications, often the family has no one to turn to when a utility bill must be paid or a way needs to be found to get the child to the treatment. This is where My Child’s Hand steps in. When all other means have been depleted My Child’s Hand will be there to help. Obviously, each family’s situation is different and My Child’s Hand’s approach is to act specifically to the needs of each individual situation. My child’s hand feels that if the whole family can be spared some worry this will benefit the patient, and smooth the treatment and recovery process.

Our mission – giving help and hope when it is needed most.

For more information please email [email protected]

606 Post Road East, Suite 519
Westport, CT 06880