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Every child deserves the chance to heal.

Justus For Kids helps families of children recovering from traumatic brain injury access healing therapies, find support, and hold onto hope — one child at a time.

Justus and his dad at the lake at golden hour, watching the fountain together.
Registered 501(c)(3) public charity EIN 33-3376897 Donations are tax-deductible
Justus asleep on his parent's shoulder in the hospital.
The challenge for families

Everything changes in an instant.

When a child suffers a brain injury, everything changes in an instant. Families are thrown into a world of appointments, uncertainty, and costs that add up fast — and the therapies that can help a child's recovery are often expensive and hard to reach.

No parent should have to choose between hope and the bills. That's where we come in.

What we do

Three ways we stand with families

Fund healing therapies

We help families access the recovery therapies their child needs, so cost is one less barrier between a child and their progress.

Support families

Recovery is a family journey. We connect parents to resources, guidance, and a community that understands.

Advance understanding

We share families' experiences and support the growing understanding of how children recover — so the next family has a clearer path.

So brave “Look how brave you are. I gotta learn to be brave like you.”
Our why

Meet Justus.

“Our foundation carries my son's name.”

On December 14, 2023, a car accident crushed the side of my son's skull. He survived surgery — but he woke up unable to walk or talk. We spent the next years fighting for his recovery: hospitals, rehab centers, therapy after therapy, every single day.

We could keep fighting because we could keep paying for the fight. Most families can't. That's why this foundation carries his name — so no child's recovery is ever limited by what their family can pay.

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Impact snapshot

Small numbers, real children

Behind every number is a child with a name and a family holding onto hope.

$250
funds one full 45-minute therapy session
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child's story started this mission
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100%
volunteer-run — no salaries, no offices
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We're in our first year, and every dollar goes toward therapy sessions for children — we publish the numbers, and with families' consent, the stories behind them.

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