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Lauren’s Institute for Education – Get Involved
L.I.F.E. began as a dream by two women to create an organization to help children like Lauren. They believe that people with disabilities deserve better care than what has historically been available. At L.I.F.E. we provide extraordinary services including team members working together in our transdisciplinary approach.
Working together to empower people through extraordinary services for developmental disabilities.
Lauren’s Institute For Education was inspired by Lauren Reed. When Lauren was a child, she was diagnosed with a rare degenerative disorder called Sanfillipo Syndrome. She required extensive therapy and treatment to maintain her function.
As part of this extensive care, Lauren received in-home habilitation from Margaret Travillion. Margaret and Lauren’s mother, Carrie Reed, brought Lauren to therapy sessions and doctor’s appointments all across The Valley. They soon discovered that receiving therapy in multiple places was not only extremely time consuming and burdensome to family life, but also the providers were not able to communicate with each other and provide a comprehensive and integrated plan for Lauren. Margaret and Carrie dreamed and believed they could create something better for Lauren and for other children like Lauren.
Margaret Travillion (CEO) and Carrie Reed (President), opened Lauren’s Institute for Education in 2007. From the beginning, a key feature of L.I.F.E. has been it’s transdisciplinary model allowing providers of different disciplines to truly work together in one place for the benefit of a client and family.
The path has been difficult, and the sacrifices to building a successful company has been great, but L.I.F.E. has now been open for 18 years and is flourishing.
Programs
Providing extraordinary services at little to no cost to families- with your help.
Lauren’s Institute for Education (L.I.F.E.) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to providing extraordinary services for developmental disabilities at little to no cost to families. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity for the best care regardless of income. It is only with support from donors like you that we are able to meet this mission!
There are many ways you can support us including no-cost to you tax credit donations which are extremely impactful for enabling us to provide scholarships for our Academy. Additionally, we hold multiple annual fundraising events providing donation and sponsorship opportunities.
Tax Credit Donations from Individuals
L.I.F.E. works with three main School Tuition Organizations (STOs) that accept individual tax credit donations and then award scholarships. Those three organizations are Academic Opportunity of Arizona, Arizona Tuition Connection, and APESF.
Corporate Matching by Employers
Many corporations participate in matching programs, where an employee can designate part of their check to an organization and the company will match the donation up to a certain dollar amount. Please consider having your employer add us to their list of recipients.