Studies show that 90 percent of brain development happens during a child’s first five years.¹ Moreover, the lack of early childhood education and socialization opportunities can cause long-term behavioral and cognitive difficulties.

• Young children battling cancer have suppressed immune systems due to chemotherapy treatment, and risk of infection and serious illness by attending typical preschool programs.

THE MORGAN CENTER (TMC) is the first and still the only program of its kind in the United States for preschool-age children battling cancer.

• Founded in 2003 by the parents of a young cancer patient named Morgan, THE MORGAN CENTER is provided FREE of charge with no cost to the families. All operating expenses are covered by private donations and fundraising.
• From humble beginnings, TMC has given hundreds of young children with cancer the opportunity to learn, socialize, make friends, and have fun in a safe preschool environment.
• In August of 2019, TMC opened a second in-person program in Central Florida, at the request of leaders in the Orlando pediatric cancer community.
• In March 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, TMC created an online learning program called TMC CLASSVROOM^©, which provides interactive, preschool learning, socialization, and academic enrichment to young children battling cancer.
• TMC CLASSVROOM^© educated more than 80 preschool-age children battling cancer during the pandemic with our online program.
• In the Fall of 2022, TMC returned to in-person classes in NY and FL. TMC CLASSVROOM^© continued to broadcast live directly from our TMC Florida classroom to young children battling cancer in the hospital or recovering at home.

The TMC CLASSVROOM^© program is designed for young children battling cancer who are physically unable to attend TMC in-person programs in Central Florida and New York.

–  TMC CLASSVROOM^© boxes are provided free of charge to each child, and contain preschool learning materials including TMC academic printouts, craft materials, Play-Doh^©, markers, crayons, and a movement puppet.

–  TMC CLASSVROOM^© removes the barrier for young cancer patients who are physically unable to attend THE MORGAN CENTER in-person classroom program, whether the barrier is health-related or geographic.

–  TMC CLASSVROOM^© has provided a preschool experience to children in 19 states.

–  TMC CLASSVROOM^© can ultimately provide the opportunity for every young child battling cancer in the United States to have a preschool experience. THE MORGAN CENTER currently operates in-person programs for children in physical classrooms in Orlando, Florida, and Hicksville, New York. To date, TMC CLASSVROOM^© has provided an interactive, educational preschool experience FREE OF CHARGE to children battling cancer in 19 states across the US, including California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. TMC and TMC CLASSVROOM^© have the potential to help thousands of young children battling cancer across the country.

For more information, please contact: nancy@themorgancenter.org