Lifetime Networks is a not-for-profit organization started in 1998 by a group of determined parents trying to create a viable organization to secure the future of their children with disabilities, by establishing personal support Networks. Networks are made up of friends and are unpaid relationships in the lives of people with disabilities. It is truly amazing to realize what parents with a common passionate goal can achieve; and so they began to search for people who would be committed to becoming a friend to each of their children with disabilities.

http://www.lifetimenetworks.org/about-us/history-guiding-principles/