Having a child with cancer puts a tremendous emotional, physical, and financial strain on families.

To help you cope with the many decisions and problems you are likely to face, we have developed a 5-step system called Bright IDEAS.

The most important thing to do to use the Bright IDEAS system successfully is to adopt the attitude that you understand and believe that you CAN cope successfully. We call this OPTIMISM. It is the most important tool you will use to make the system work for you. It is so important that we have put it in the center of the IDEAS system and we use the word “bright” (intelligent, clever, can do, promising) to remind you of the positive outlook that is essential for good problem solving.