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Helping newly diagnosed families and survivors impacted by childhood, adolescent & young adult cancer across West Virginia & Pittsburgh through navigation, travel assistance, survivorship education & support. Walking Miracles Family Foundation was started by Brett Wilson a Charleston WV native and a childhood and adolescent cancer survivor of ALL Leukemia, Brett was diagnosed in 1974 at age 2 and had 5 years of chemo and cranial radiation and was in remission for a year and a half and relapsed with and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 1981 at age 9. Brett had complications with pediatric sedation that caused blue coding twice due to breathing issues and intubation, After that was resolved more 3 more years of chemo and neck and head radiation were needed and Brett was cancer-free by the age of 12. Brett founded the Walking Miracles family foundation to help diagnosed families and survivors impacted by childhood, adolescent, and young adults with cancer in 2012 and it has been operating for 11 years

11/05/2026

"I didn't do what I did alone."

Brett Wilson's mom walked through every step. So did Brett's grandparents and older brother, and a younger brother was born during the second diagnosis.

In this clip with co-host Neil Haley, Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, explains that the book is about that whole family, and about the long-term side effects and costs Brett's family faced. The message: this is a problem, and you need to be aware of it so you'll know what to do for yourself.

Find the book at walkingmiracles.org.

11/05/2026

What's inside a Package of Hope?

Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, walks co-host Neil Haley through it:
A $250 travel assistance card for gas, food and lodging, with a second card each year depending on funding.
A tablet to keep track of medical information and conversations with doctors and nurses.
A port shirt with zippers, made for chemotherapy.

Help fund a Package of Hope at walkingmiracles.org.

11/04/2026

Adolescents and young adults with cancer are "the most overlooked population in the country," says Brett Wilson. "You don't hear those voices very often."

The Unspoken Costs of Cancer podcast is changing that. In this clip with co-host Neil Haley, Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation, explains the plan: bring on survivors who provide services so families find new resources, and invite patients to share their own unspoken cost of cancer and how it's changed their lives.

Have a story to share? Go to walkingmiracles.org.

11/04/2026

Based on the data from that era, Brett Wilson says, "hypothetically I'm not supposed to be here."

In this clip with co-host Neil Haley, Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, talks about who the book is for: someone looking for an inspirational story, a family going through it right now, or a friend who wants to help but doesn't know what to say.

"They don't know how to help them. But they can give them a book."

Find the book at walkingmiracles.org.

11/03/2026

"If only I'd have known. If I'd had done this."

So many families carry that guilt. In this clip with co-host Neil Haley, Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, talks about the curriculum the foundation is building to help families put it down.

It covers childhood, adolescent and young adult cancers, written at a second-grade reading level so it's actually usable. Instead of carrying guilt, families can see: this is part of the process, this is how it's done, and this is what's going to happen.

Learn more at walkingmiracles.org.

11/03/2026

"Getting chemotherapy is just the most boring thing in life that you could ever do."

Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, explains the port shirt in every Package of Hope. Treatment means hours of sitting while the drip runs, and sometimes patients get sick. One drug, Adriamycin, is red, and it can ruin the good clothes someone wore to treatment.

So the foundation made a dri-fit shirt with zippers for port access, for kids, adolescents and young adults. Wear it during chemo, wipe it off if needed, and wash it at home.

Learn more at walkingmiracles.org.

11/02/2026

As a patient navigator, Brett Wilson sometimes calls a family to ask if they need another travel card, and hears this: "Oh, I'm so sorry, Brett, to tell you that so-and-so passed away two years ago."

In this clip with co-host Neil Haley, Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, shares why that moment led to the foundation's jewelry collections. "I didn't want them to feel forgotten."

Each piece can be worn to represent someone in the family: a caregiver, a patient who's newly diagnosed, or a survivor.

See the collections at walkingmiracles.org under How You Can Help.

11/02/2026

Leukemia in 1974. Non-Hodgkin's in 1981. And through all of it, Brett Wilson's mom kept calendars with every appointment written down: when they were going, what they were doing, every change.

Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, didn't want today's moms and dads to have to write it all down and lug it into every appointment.

So every Package of Hope includes a tablet to keep appointments, medical records and notes from doctors and nurses in one place.

Learn more at walkingmiracles.org.

11/01/2026

It took Brett Wilson a long time to write the book.

"I didn't really want to mentally go back into everything that happened from before, but I did it because I knew it might be of value to somebody reading it, and they could say, 'Oh, this person's been in my shoes.'"

In this clip with co-host Neil Haley, Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, shares why the story was worth reliving.

Find the book at walkingmiracles.org.

11/01/2026

In West Virginia, most families drive two to three hours, one direction, to get to Morgantown, Charleston or Huntington for treatment. Sometimes three days a week.

"If you're a single mother or a single father and you're driving, but you aren't able to go to work so that you can pay the bills, things get very tight very quickly."

Brett Wilson, Founder of Walking Miracles Family Foundation and CEO of The Unspoken Costs of Cancer, explains in this clip with co-host Neil Haley why travel is the biggest barrier to care, during treatment and for every follow-up visit after.

That's why every Package of Hope includes travel assistance. Learn more at walkingmiracles.org.

Address

500 Virginia Street East , United Center
Charleston, WV
25301

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+13045509599

Website

https://www.walkingmiracles.org/

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