Henry Ford Nursing Students Raise $1,200 for Karmanos Cancer Center

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Henry Ford Community College nursing students raised $1,200 in May to benefit the Karmanos Cancer Center’s “Friends Like Me” program.

On May 8, several HFCC nursing students presented social worker Kathleen Hardy with a check. The students raised the money through a coin wars competition between nursing sections.

The section that raised the most money received a pizza party. The competition raised $900, and the HFCC Student Nursing Association added an additional $300 for a grant total of $1,200. This is the second year that the HFCC nursing program has supported “Friends Like Me.”

“Friends Like Me” is an after-school and summer art therapy program for school-age children who have a sibling, parent or grandparent with cancer. This program works to enhance the social, emotional and intellectual skills children need to gather support from their peers and family. In addition, the program works to help children feel less isolated and alone with the trauma that cancer can bring into the family.

The program is held at the Karmanos Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills. The “Friends Like Me” program is open to children throughout southeast Michigan who have a family member with cancer.

For more information on the "Friends Like Me" program, call Hardy at 248-538-4712, or email hardyk@karmanos.org.