INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Brett Fischer, a practicing pediatric physical therapist, has seen what happens when a child with a disability becomes the center of a family’s entire world, not out of malice but out of necessity. Siblings are often overlooked, marriages can strain, and the family unit — the very foundation that helps a child thrive — can begin to crack.

That reality is what led Fischer to found Victory Lane.

“It’s great to have a kid that makes progress,” Fischer said, “but they make more progress when the family sticks together.”

There are programs and resources for the kid with disability.  What sets Victory Lane apart is who else it invites.

The organization deliberately brings in families whose children do not have disabilities and equips them to welcome, accept a...