Facility profile Florida

LIFE

Also known as LIFE, Inc.

Closed Sarasota, Florida

At a glance

Address: Sarasota, FL
Type: Substance Abuse Treatment
Operated: Opened 1980

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LIFE was a substance abuse treatment in Sarasota, Florida. It opened in 1980.

Staff

Administration

George Ross

Founder
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Documents

From Surviving Straight Inc.

8 documents about LIFE that Surviving Straight Inc. published and Kids Over Profits does not hold a copy of. They open on Surviving Straight Inc.'s website.

Corporate Documents (1)

Filing Summary and name Change

Straight Inc Spin Off Programs (Straight Renamed): STEP (1)

"Teen Peer Pressure Fights Drug Use In New Program"

More Straight SpinOffs (Straight Renamed) by George Ross: LIFE - Sarasota, FL (6)

Research notes

George Ross, on Straight Inc's executive staff from 1978, helped open LIFE in Sarasota, Florida, incorporated March 1980 (Surviving Straight Inc, 'More Straight SpinOffs by George Ross').
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune ran 'Drug Program Director Resigns' about LIFE on May 7, 1981 (Surviving Straight Inc article list).
Added 2026-09-23 from the research network map (seeds/new-facilities.json).

Materials and links

External links

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survivingstraightinc.com (archived copy) live site

Reporting this program

This program closed, so the state agency that licensed it can no longer act against it. Other channels may still be able to: the boards that license the people who worked here, law enforcement, and the civil courts.

The Florida reporting channels list each one and what it can do. Time limits depend on the state, the kind of harm and the survivor's age, and many states have lengthened or removed them for child sexual abuse, so a program closing long ago does not by itself mean it is too late. Laws change, so the time limits we list were correct when we checked them but may have been updated since; a lawyer can tell you where things stand now.