Total Performance Factory Performs for Kids Fighting Cancer

Total Performance Factory in Hanover Park believes in helping to ultimately support children and teens fighting cancer. The Hannover Park Fitness Center collected toys to benefit the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation (POTCF).

Total Performance Factory provides training for people who are novice exercisers to people who have been avid exercisers. The center works with sports teams and elite athletes. The trainers share a common goal, results for the clients.

Total Performance Factory Co-owner Kristie Stutson said, “Total Performance wants to provide some joy to the kids served by the Treasure Chest Foundation.”

Treasure Chest Foundation CEO and Founder Colleen Kisel said, “We feel so grateful to have the support of the Total Performance Factory family. Their donation will help to benefit the children and teens who endure years and years of unending cancer treatments by rewarding the kids with a toy after every procedure.”

The POTCF is a unique organization whose services impact more than 15,300 young cancer patients in 64 cancer treatment centers in 21 states across the nation and in the District of Columbia. Nowhere else in the nation does such a program exist. Colleen Kisel founded the organization in 1996 after her then seven-year-old son Martin had been diagnosed with leukemia in 1993. Ms. Kisel discovered that giving her son a toy after each procedure provided a calming distraction from his pain, noting that when children are diagnosed with cancer their world soon becomes filled with doctors, nurses, chemotherapy drugs, surgeries and seemingly endless painful procedures. Martin celebrated his 29th anniversary of remission from the disease in March of this year.

If you would like further information about the Treasure Chest Foundation, please contact Colleen Kisel at 1-708-687-TOYS (8697) or visit the Foundation’s website at www.treasurechest.org.