KidsCAN! is a peer empathy, education, and emotional social learning program for children who have a parent or primary caregiver battling cancer. These support programs include gatherings run by hospital staff where children learn about their parent’s diagnosis with age-appropriate lessons and emotional support. 

Our memory-making events offer families the opportunity to do something joyful and special, such as social gatherings, museum visits, sporting events, and more. We give families the space to play and make new memories, even while undergoing the stress of cancer treatments. 

Program Sites

Children of any cancer patient are eligible for the KidsCan! program, regardless of where the patient receives cancer treatment. It is free of charge. The KidsCan! program is available at the following locations:

• UNC REX Cancer Center, Rex Healthcare, Raleigh, NC
• Duke Cancer Institute, Duke Hospital, Durham, NC
• Cone Health Cancer Center at Alamance Regional, Alamance Regional Medical Center, Burlington, NC and Wesley Long Hospital, Greensboro, NC
• Siteman Cancer Center, Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Memory Making Events

The Holt Brothers have tickets to NC State football and basketball games which are donated to children who participate in the KidsCAN! programs in North Carolina. Other opportunities for memory making in 2021 included a KidsCAN! family day at the NC Courage game in Cary, NC.

“We try to give the kids and their families a social outlet, a way to forget about hospitals and medicine,” says Terrence. “KidsCan! is a pretty intense program. We try to make sure it’s also fun.”

Check out photos from our 2021 events!