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Why We Exist
In
the effort to beat breast cancer, people and organizations
raise funds for research, participate in support groups, and
fund treatment for needy patients. Only patients and their
families worry about other basic needs such as housing, food,
child care or transportation.
Often
moderate- to low-income people diagnosed with breast cancer
become incapacitated and unable to work and earn an income.
Without an income, one cannot pay bills that come due each
month. Financial stressors contribute to health stressors,
affecting a patient's ability to seek treatment, heal and
recover.
The
need doesn't end with the patient. Over 80 percent of our
applicants have children and health and financial stresses
affect children, families, and the lives of everyone involved.
If a mother or wife is battling breast cancer, her stresses
will affect the attitude and well being of the entire family.
The experience may live with them for the rest of their lives.
Financial pressures will only exacerbate a family's troubles
and could take the focus off a mother's or wife's recovery
and place it onto keeping the home or paying for food. Treatment
for and recovery from breast cancer becomes a secondary life
issue.
Our
grantees do not have to worry about losing their homes, providing
food, or child care costs. Sense of Security provides financial
assistance for the entire household with the understanding
that everyone involved in the patient's illness requires time
to recover and heal.
People
living in difficult day-to-day financial situations find themselves
having to choose between food and prescription drugs, car
insurance and co-pays, or rent and medical bills when they
have breast cancer. Who is there to help someone in this situation?
In Colorado there's Sense of Security.
Sense of Security is the only organization of its kind in
the State of Colorado. We can provide comprehensive, sustained
financial assistance with basic living expenses for the duration
of treatment to relieve financial stress and ensure energy
is spent on healing and recovery.
Sense of Security provides
peace of mind . . .
when you need it most.
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