Helping families of children with special needs navigate life — with love, support, and a helping hand.
Since 2016, we've walked alongside families in the Midwest raising children with special needs, offering financial help and prayerful support so no parent has to navigate this road alone.
Lane's Story
Living in the Right LANE was founded in memory of Lane McDaniel — a boy who overcame more in his short life than most people face in a lifetime, and whose smile and laugh touched everyone who knew him. When Lane passed away in 2014, his parents turned their grief into a promise: to help other families walking the same hard roads they walked with him.
Every gift, every prayer, and every family we help honors Lane’s life and helps us heal.
Together we are healing by helping.
Our Foundation
LANE stands on four simple commitments, practiced every day:
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We meet every family with compassion, not judgment.
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We see the strength it takes to raise a child with special needs, and we honor it.
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We build real relationships, not one-time transactions.
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This isn't a one-time gesture. It's a daily commitment to walk with you.
What We Do
Raising a child with special needs and/or medical complexities comes with many additional considerations. From navigating benefits, adaptive equipment, travel expenses, loss wages, etc. we know the list is long. But it’s not just money - the stress of navigating benefits, programs, insurance can be overwhelming. Our goal is to meet you where you are and help where we can. Part of that help comes from research and connecting families to other programs that exist to address a specific need. As parents and caregivers who have navigated these waters and helped other do the same we have great insight. Living In the Right Lane exists to help find your path - Change your Lane per se. We call the Blessings we provide Lane Changers.
We've helped families in the Midwest with many things but here are some examples:
Prayerful support
Fundraising for a need
Dollars towards home or vehicle adaptations
Travel expenses
Rehoming of medical and adaptive equipment
Life experiences
And so much more