What We Do: The Shining Stars Foundation provides services centered around unique, diversified recreational and social activities, including adaptive skiing/snowboarding, outdoor education, adventure sports, music, cultural and community events, animal based therapy, and more. Services are delivered through overnight, week-long programs and single day events.

 

A majority of programs accommodate the entire family, including siblings and parents, with a few programs tailored specifically to the sick child. The Shining Stars Foundation is currently the only nonprofit in Colorado and one of few nationally providing long-term, continuous, year-round care for children and their families through recreational programming at any stage in their cancer battle, including treatment, relapse, or remission.


Who We Serve: Children with pediatric cancer or another life threatening disease and their entire family, including siblings, parents, grandparents, etc… We typically serve families with a sick child between the ages of 6 and 18 who are at any stage in their battle with a life threatening disease, which includes relapse, remission, or treatment. A special focus is placed on children living with a physical or mental disability as a result of their treatment and/or disease.


Our Impact: The Shining Stars Foundation meets needs not addressed by medical treatments, mainly the devastating emotional, social, and psychological toll that cancer takes on the entire family. The proven result: attitudes transform, spirits come alive, hope in ignited, & lives  change.