"We Care About Saving The Family"
Our Focus:
Project “Save the Family” – Helping children with disease and disabilities
and their families. (expanding to working with Adults with disease and disabilities)
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Project “Food Pantry” – Working towards creating hunger free Western New
York with our food pantry located at 1800 Maple Road, Williamsville.
Project “Getting Involved” – Networking with community agencies,
corporations and universities for the betterment of the community.
Project “Eldercare” – helping the elderly with medical, doctor bills and
working with their insurance companies.
Project “Never Adopted” – Finding families who still want children and
finding children who even as adults still want families.
Focusing on new projects to meet our missions goals.
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Project
“Save the Family”The Problem:
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Families whose children have disease and disability, often have to deal with the numerous
medical bills that have not been covered or partially covered by the insurance companies.
They also have to deal with the numerous phone calls from creditors and bill collectors. This
is only one of many issues that these families face but they are also trying to deal with the
stresses of have a child with disease or disability.
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The Need:
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Our children are the victims of diseases of all kinds.
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Research shows that 7.5% of the families in Western New York
have a child with a disease & an average of 10.3% have disabilities.
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The physical & emotional problems that these children have often
leads to emotional and financial problems for the parents. The extra stresses
of caring for a sick child, taking the child to many doctors appointments,
non-paid medical bills, phone calls from the bill collectors and so much
more.
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Solving the problems of these families are very complex and time consuming. Time for these
families is a rare commodity. However, The Morlock Foundation feels that the families who get
the proper support can thrive in spite of these disease and issues it causes.
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15% of these families have
no health insurance and 61.5% of these families have insurance that will not cover
all procedures, hospital stays and other bills.
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The Morlock Foundation is developing a program with assistance
for these families who have child(ren) with a disease and disability. This program will
strengthen the family and reduce the stress level.
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Some examples(children with disease)::
1. Heart and Circulation
Defect
2. Muscle and Skeleton Defect
3. Club Foot
4. Cleft Lip/Palate
5. Genital and Urinary Tract Defects
6. Nervous System and Eye Defects
7. Anencephaly
8. Spina Bifida
9. Chromosonal Syndromes
10. Down Syndromes
11. Respiratory Tract Defects
12. Metabolic Disorders
13. PKU
14. Congenital Syphilis
15. Congenital HIV infection
16. Congenital Rubella Syndrome
17. Rh Disease
18. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
19. Asthma
Total
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3,821
3,380
598
472
3,255
1,870
55
220
732
488
488
126
37
220
163
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314
439
5,589
21,761
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These figures do not include all diseases.
Examples of those not included are: Krabbes and other Leukodystrophies, Cancer ...
For families like these, time is a precious commodity.
The Morlock Foundation is committed to building up these families and
giving them back some of that precious commodity by taking away the stress
of medical, doctors and hospital bills.
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