Tomorrow’s breakthrough treatment is here today…we need to ensure that it’s accessible to everyone everywhere
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Teaching kids and their caregivers how to collaborate on solving the problems that cause concerning behavior is how we help restore relationships and communication and reduce conflict in families. It’s how we extricate kids from the cycle of punitive, exclusionary discipline in schools and from harmful practices like corporal punishment, restraint, seclusion, and entry into the criminal justice system. It’s how we help kids — often in inpatient psychiatry units, residential facilities, and prisons — move beyond alienation, disenfranchisement, and marginalization and envision a positive future. And it’s how we help all kids and all people listen to each other and collaborate on solutions.
We have the technology. It’s time to end the harm. The future is here and now.
Your donation will help in many ways:
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You’ll help us increase public awareness of the price we all pay for the use of punitive, exclusionary, reactive disciplinary practices.
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You’ll enable us to leverage technology to provide vast resources and training — to parents, educators, clinicians, and staff in treatment facilities — in the evidence-based, trauma-informed, neurodiversity affirming Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model so that antiquated, harmful, counterproductive interventions such as time-out, restraint, seclusion, corporal punishment, suspension, and expulsion become a thing of the past.
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You’ll help us support policy change at the state and federal levels for bills that can help end the punitive, exclusionary disciplinary practices that fuel the school-to-prison pipeline.
We’re getting it done. We could be doing so much more. We thank you for your support!
Lives in the Balance has never partnered with the restraint/crisis management industry, and never will.
If you’d consider donating on a monthly basis — what we call our Sustaining Donors — we’ll make sure you’re appraised of our planned initiatives and get advance notice of our media materials and resources. Just indicate that you’d like to make monthly donations after you click on an amount. We also accept stock donations.
And if you’d like to have a personal conversation about how you can support our efforts, we’d be delighted to talk to you. Please contact our Executive Director, Riss Thompson, at marissa@livesinthebalance.org.
We are fortunate to count among our supporters the music group, The Wailin’ Jennys — Ruth Moody, Heather Masse, and Nicky Mehta — whose hearts are as amazing as their harmonies. And they’re performing a special benefit concert for Lives in the Balance at the beautiful Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine, on November 22, 2025. Ticket information here.
