Your support tips the scales toward compassion and hope for kids who are too often misunderstood and mistreated.
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Teaching kids and caregivers how to solve problems collaboratively restores relationships and protects children from harmful practices like restraint, seclusion, corporal punishment, and arrest. It helps youth in treatment settings move from alienation to hope.
Your donation:
- Increases public awareness of the cost of punitive, exclusionary discipline
- Provides accessible, evidence-based CPS resources and training to parents, educators, clinicians, and treatment staff
- Supports state and federal policy efforts to end the practices that harm kids and fuel the school-to-prison pipeline
We’re getting it done. With your support, we can go even further.
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 — becoming one of our Sustaining Donors — you’ll help ensure that kids and caregivers can count on us all year long. We also accept stock donations.
If you’d like to talk about a deeper partnership or a major gift, please reach out to our Executive Director, Riss Thompson, at marissa@livesinthebalance.org.
WE’RE CELEBRATING OUR 15th ANNIVERSARY! And we’ve been busy for those fifteen years. As you’ll see in the video, we’ve been at the fore of efforts to increase public awareness of the harms of punitive, exclusionary, harmful, counterproductive practices that are often applied to our most vulnerable kids. But we haven’t just been calling attention to whats wrong…we’ve been advocating for what’s right. We’ve been actively fostering and supporting legislation aimed at eliminating those practices. We’ve been the hub of free resources and training on the evidence-based Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model, helping caregivers all over the world accurately interpret concerning behavior and learn how to partner with kids on solving problems. Through our outreach programs, caregivers who often feel isolated and desperate have found help, hope, support, and community. We hope you’ll support us as we begin the next 15 years of helping kids and caregivers, creating change, and making the future brighter and more compassionate for all kids.
