Starting Line Strength and Stability Center

Our ask: Please donate $10 and share with 10 others. Save Starting Line Strength and Stability Center! Help Beaumont thrive by supporting the Beaumont community seniors and our high school students seeking medical careers.

Hello! I'm Christine Guevara, an occupational therapist currently employed at Beaumont High School as an education specialist for the Medical Career Technical Education (CTE) Pathway. Additionally, I'm the founder of Starting Line Strength and Stability Center; a non-profit exercise program for individuals within our community that suffer from various neurological disorders such as brain injury, stroke, and Parkinson’s Disease.

Starting Line, which is hosted at Beaumont High School, is a student-led program that thrives off of collaboration between the eager participants and the student interns that voluntarily lead each workout session. These workout sessions are essential for the participants in regaining their strength, mobility, and autonomy while combatting the long-term consequences of neurological diagnoses.

Since its inception, Starting Line has been required to maintain liability insurance in addition to the normal operating costs. For the past four years, we have been able to meet this goal through means of charging for membership, accepting donations, and even paying out of pocket. This has managed to keep us afloat, but this year, the cost of operations has become too strenuous for these methods to be viable.

This year, we are transitioning Starting Line from a non profit, into an official Beaumont High School club, so that students can take on leadership roles, expand community outreach, and make the program sustainable for years to come. However, as we transition, we still need support to cover the essential costs that allow us to keep our doors open.

That is why, we are turning to the community for donations. We aim to raise $4,000 by November 27th (Thanksgiving 2025). Any and all donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you!