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OUR MISSION
The co- founders of Brighter Journeys , through their personal experiences, have identified needs for families of individuals with complex medical or behavioral conditions. To address this gap they have formed a charity to provide words of comfort, assist in directing to resources, and the intention to provide tangible support to those families.
Families that include an individual with special needs, often find difficulty in navigating through everyday life, as the world is not typically designed to meet this need. Brighter Journeys seeks to provide comfort through the caring words of experience, and when possible address requests for items not covered by medical insurance or out of financial reach of these families.
One unique quality of this foundation is that Brighter Journeys is not specific to any one disability or diagnosis. It is to brighten the journey of any child with special needs.
Brighter Journeys: Going the extra mile for individuals with special needs and their families.
OUR DREAM
Our founders Lisa Platko Urbanski and Bernice Simonds Sando have faced the challenges of raising their children and fully understanding the battle facing other families in our area. Now they feel as it is their turn to give back to the community and through Brighter Journeys hopes to go the extra mile for children with special needs and brighten the journey of other families raising children with special needs.

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In-Kind | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Donations |
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The Hershey Company | Valley Chevrolet | CK Alarm | Order of Alhamar, Alhamar Caravan No.4 | Willard and Sandra Race |
Allied Services Integrated Health System | Penn Wood Financial Group | Service Electric | Caregivers America | |
Mohegan Pennsylvania | Community Bank | Metz Culinary Management | Steinbacher, Goodall & Yurchak | |
Pride Mobility Products Corp | Tracy G. Zarola-Lewith and Freeman Real Estate | |||
BHW Construction Consultation Serviecs INC | Luzerne County Intermediate Unit (LIU) | |||
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield | Step-By-Step, INC | |||
Geisinger | Postupak Painting Co., Inc. | |||
Harveys Lake American Legion Post 967 | DiscoverNEPA Powered by Mericle | |||
Golden Technologies | Pro Companies | |||
Allied Services Integrated Health System John P. Moses Esquire Pediatric Rehab Centers in Partnership with AllOne Foundation and Charities | Benchmark McCabe Mortgage Group | |||
xfinity | Christian's Crayons for Autism | |||
S.A.F.E. | Golden Home Health Care | |||
Collaborative Autism Movement (CAM) | ||||
Snyder and Clemente |
Counties Served
Bradford
Carbon
Clinton
Lackawanna
Luzerne
Lycoming
Monroe
Pike
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Wayne
Wyoming














Brighter Journeys
150 Mundy Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
Tel: 570-814-3729









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