Our Children... Our Communities... Our Legacy...
At Ready for Life, our mission is fostering hope
and transforming lives, one child at a time.
Our Founders
The Panza's have over thirty years of experience with foster children and group home level children, office management and social work. Better Choices, Inc./Ready for Life embodies Rick and Nena's philosophy regarding the care and well-being of foster children. After years of working with displaced foster youth, they realized that traditional foster care was not always able to provide the children with adequate vocational, social, and life skills necessary to make them 'Ready for Life' after foster care ended. Their immediate needs were often met, but their spiritual and long-term needs and goals were often left unattended. Ready for Life was founded in 2000 because of one family's compassion for children.
Our Philosophy
Our logo shows a butterfly emerging from a broken circle. It is a symbol of the transformation that can occur as we pray daily for children and place them in caring, structured, therapeutic foster homes.