Meet Lizzie: The Search for Sunshine
Born with spina bifida, Lizzie requires full-time, hands-on care every single day. For years, her mother, Michele, has devoted her life to making sure her daughter feels safe, loved, and cared for despite the challenges they face inside their current home. Now, through Sunshine on a Ranney Day, they are searching for a donor to help create a fully accessible bathroom renovation that could dramatically improve their daily lives. This is a story about resilience, dignity, advocacy, and the power of community coming together to change a family’s future.
The Ice Is in My Veins: Dahlia’s Cerebral Palsy Journey Through Adaptive Sports and Advocacy
Dahlia’s journey with Cerebral Palsy is one of resilience, adaptation, and unstoppable strength. From life-changing surgery to falling in love with adaptive sports, she’s redefining what’s possible and showing the world how to learn, play, and grow together.
Lucy’s Spina Bifida Journey: Speed, Sass, and Strength on Wheels
Most days, you’ll find her in her wheelchair… and not just sitting still. Lucy is a speed demon. She takes off with confidence, doing laps and navigating her world like she owns it because in so many ways, she does. Every turn of her wheels is a reminder that mobility doesn’t look just one way, and neither does strength.
What Cerebral Palsy Looks Like in Adulthood: Angela
Angela entered the world fighting, born premature after a medical emergency and surrounded by uncertainty, but her life has been anything but small. Diagnosed with cerebral palsy, quadriplegic, seizure disorder, epilepsy, and developmental delays, she has spent 45 years navigating a world not designed with her in mind, yet her strength, softness, and joy continue to defy expectation. As the first adult to join our JJP Crew, Angela reminds us that belonging isn’t limited by age or ability; it’s something every human deserves. She isn’t here to be pitied; she’s here because she belongs, and we are honored to share her story.
Daily Life with Spina Bifida, Hydrocephalus & Rare Conditions: Axell & Elliott
Our boys are proof that diagnoses do not define destiny. They are living, breathing reminders that joy can coexist with challenges, and that sometimes the bravest warriors come in the smallest bodies.
This isn’t just photography. It’s visibility.
The JJP Crew is made up of families who have chosen to share more than portraits. Through personal features, blog stories, and ongoing representation across JJP, each Crew member helps show the beauty, individuality, and depth of the disability community.
Crew members receive more than image sharing. Each family has the opportunity to be featured through social media storytelling and a dedicated blog on the JJP website, creating a permanent place for their child’s story to live. The Crew also opens the door to yearly JJP Crew shoots, future events, and opportunities to highlight therapy centers, nonprofits, fundraisers, and other meaningful parts of their journey.