Life Jackets for Kids, Inc. "Making Memories Out Of Happy Moments!"

Welcome to Life Jackets for Kids, Inc.

The Mission:   Life Jackets for Kids will provide the "quality of life" and financial assistance to the parents of children struggling with a life-threatening illness.  This assistance will help families cope.  As a matter of  practice, most critical cases - usually terminal - receive our attention.

The Quality of Life: Life Jackets for Kids, Inc. focus is the quality of life for the child and their family.  Life Jackets for Kids, Inc. considers the quality of life as the essence of that which makes the child feel good or happy, to alter the child's focus from the agony of disease to fun and joy, by creating good memories.

Serving the disadvantaged: Any debilitating disease attacks without prejudice of race, nationality or social bearing.  The emotional strain is enhanced when the lack of funds increases the burden of needing to cope.  The financial burden faced by anyone with a critically, terminally ill child can become insurmountable when a two-income family becomes a one-income family so the needs of the child can be attended. This is a situation made more critical with the already disadvantaged family.  While the socio-economic bearing of the family is not a solo factor of the Life Jackets for Kids assistance, it is the economically disadvantaged that are most impacted and benefit most by Life Jackets for Kids assistance.

Long range benefit: Life Jackets for Kids, Inc. believes that by providing the child and family with joy filled moments, the good memory experiences will help over shadow some of the sad memories and assist with more rapid resumption of the 'quality of life'.

From the spectacular to the mundane:  Enjoying the family overnight at the beach, paying a phone bill, giving gas cards, providing transportation or visitation ability are some of the ways Life Jackets for Kids, Inc. helps meet their focus for 'quality of life'. When obstacles are removed, life's coping mechanisms are enhanced.

   LIFE JACKETS for KIDS, INC. IS A 501C3 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION