MISSION:
Cops Fighting Cancer’s mission is to provide individualized
financial, practical and emotional support to Colorado cancer
patients and their families.
Financial
Support: Cops Fighting Cancer provides individualized financial
support to families as our resources allow. While medical
bills mount, families are still faced with the “everyday”
financial obligations that we all face:
·
Rent/Mortgage Payments
· Car Payments
· Insurance Premiums
· Food/Clothing
· Other Financial Obligations
Cops Fighting
Cancer focuses on the “most pressing need”, and
works to meet it. This allows the patient and families to
focus on getting better.
Practical
Support: When a family is facing the battle with cancer, even
the smallest problems can seem huge. Cops Fighting Cancer
seeks to relieve the burden by providing practical assistance.
For example, one family was faced with having to do laundry
at the local laundry mat due to a broken washing machine.
Cops Fighting Cancer found, purchased, delivered and installed
a new one. This was a small, practical step that made life
a little easier for the family – and that’s what
Cops Fighting Cancer seeks to accomplish on a practical level.
Emotional
Support: The battle with cancer can be daunting. It takes
it’s emotional toll on a patient and their loved ones.
Cops Fighting Cancer provides emotional support that goes
well beyond sympathy, creating an uplifting, challenging and
supportive environment.
Jim Seneca,
the founder of Cops Fighting Cancer, was diagnosed with leukemia
in 1987. After a grueling battle, he won. It’s because
of that experience that Cops Fighting Cancer can provide the
needed emotional support for patients and their families.
There is personal empathy and understanding in a one-to-one
support environment. Cops Fighting Cancer is there so the
patient and their family don’t have to fight alone.
To volunteer,
donate or for more information, please contact
us.
ABOUT
US:
Cops Fighting Cancer is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization
that exists to provide Hope, Support and Compassion to Colorado
cancer patients and their families. Officer James Seneca founded
the organization and has gathered others, both police and
non-police, who have a genuine desire to help cancer patients
and their families win the fight against cancer.
Cops Fighting Cancer provides
individualized financial, practical and emotional support
to help these patients and families focus on defeating the
illness.
People who have been diagnosed
with cancer immediately find themselves in great need. The
primary need is medical care, but all of the other “day-to-day”
needs don’t just disappear.
Rent and mortgage payments
still need to be made, families still have to be cared for,
and all of the other practical daily tasks need to be carried
out. These needs don’t go away.
These families also find
themselves in tremendous need for emotional support that goes
well beyond sympathy. The treatments for cancer, while much
better than they used to be, are not easily endured. It takes
strength and support form others to help patients make it
through.
Cops Fighting Cancer has
helped 150 families by raising over $700,000 to date.
Cops Fighting Cancer is
here to provide that support for Colorado families.
To volunteer , donate
or for further information, please contact us.
OFFICER JAMES
SENECA:
It all started in August of 1987, when Jim Seneca, two weeks
into his training at the police academy in Buffalo, New York,
was diagnosed with leukemia.
Just 26 years old at the
time, Jim was devastated. He underwent six grueling months
of chemotherapy as he battled cancer. This strong, 220 lb
man was reduced to a frail figure weighing in at 165 lbs.
Those six months were
the hardest of his life. The violent spells of vomiting, losing
all of his hair, and the endless doubt took their toll on
Jim – to the point of wanting to give up.
“At one point I
thought it was just too difficult, and I thought that I would
rather die,” says Jim.
It was the support of
family and friends that gave Jim the strength to make it through.
They pushed him to keep striving forward, to keep fighting.
Because of them, Jim made it.
After that experience,
Officer Seneca made a promise to himself. He vowed that he
would be there to help others fighting the battle with cancer.
It was out of Jim’s
desire to provide Hope, Compassion and Support that Cops Fighting
Cancer was born.
Today, Jim is an officer
with the Aurora, Colorado police department. And, Cops Fighting
Cancer has helped Colorado cancer patients and families for
over 7 years.
“It’s just
simple compassion. I was spared so I could help these families.”
Hope, Compassion, Support has become Officer James Seneca’s
life mission
We pride ourselves in
keeping overhead very low, ensuring that donations go directly
to the needs of Colorado cancer patients and their families.
Our organization is made up of individuals, both police and
non-police, that have a genuine desire to help people win
the battle with cancer.
