Lifeline Community Church

Lifeline Legal Fund

Lifeline Legal Fund was established in August 2011 as a ministry of Lifeline Community Church. The elders of the Church understand well enough the needs and risks of medically fragile children and their families that we decided to begin the Lifeline Legal Fund. By creating Lifeline Legal Fund, we hope to set up a protective legal wall around present and future special-needs families.

The Lifeline Legal Fund has a leadership team whose members are primarily parents of challenging and special-needs children. Each member of the team is aware, through personal and community experience, how vulnerable special-needs families are to allegations of abuse. As we learned about the legal challenges that families face in this tragic situation, we decided to try to do something to protect the community of special-needs families. We can’t come into everyone’s home and give them respite care, nor can we do medical diagnosis and treatment. But we can help provide for their defense.

Our team brings experience in parenting, counseling, research, writing, and non-profit management to the new project. We’ll be sharing information about the medical and legal problems, and we’ll be seeking to gather a wider team to establish this cause permanently. We’re seeking to raise funds from small donors through internet communications, but we also seek more significant donations to help establish an endowment. This is an urgent need because the legal costs for families of special-needs children can mount up very rapidly and can easily overwhelm the resources of the Fund.

In helping special-needs families with these legal problems, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex or age. We do conduct serious due diligence concerning the current custody status of the applicant and solid medical and legal documentation of the case. We are not interested in helping defend people who do commit medical or other forms of child abuse, but we believe that evidence and proof matter more than allegations and anonymous tips.

If you want more information or want to help by donating, you can find information about all of this at http://lifelinelegalfund.org/