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Ryan's Case for Smiles, with 120 chapters nationwide and deliveries to 363 hospitals, improves the quality of life of children and their families as they undergo treatment for life changing illnesses and injuries. We are dedicated to the mental health and well-being of the child and their family. Supporting the child's emotional needs can be as important as providing medical care. Kids need to feel better to heal better. Ryan's Case for Smiles provides over 200,000 bright cheerful pillowcases to children in treatment that give an emotional boost and remind them that they are not defined by their illness. We are developing one of the first initiatives to address pediatric medical post-traumatic stress and help children's entire families better cope and avoid long term emotional trauma.

GRAACC's mission is to guarantee that children and adolescents with cancer have the right to all the possibilities of cure with quality of life, using the most advanced scientific standard and minimum impact to the childhood experience.

The foundation will contribute to families dealing with cancer in Wake Forest and the surrounding communities. It will assist in ways that affect the family's day to day ability to maintain order in their home as well as their lives. Things like providing meals, cleaning homes, yard maintenance, transportation to and from doctor visits and even helping with getting the kids to practice or dance are just some of the many ways the Foundation helps.

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