In 1998 a group of parents in Palm Beach County, Florida, become concerned with the increasing number of head lice cases found in their children’s schools. Sure that this was an isolated situation, they began to research ways in which other schools managed to avoid infestations within their school systems. What they found was even more alarming – the amount of head lice were growing epidemically; not only in their local area but across the country as well. Nowhere were families – regardless of income, ethnicity, or education level – truly safe from the risk of exposure to head lice. Fighting lice was also a costly adventure for everyone, not only in regard to treating it, but also – as many parents have found – in missed wages as they were forced to tend to the painstaking and often uncertain task of removing nits from their child’s hair. In a hope to answer cries from desperate parents, Lice Solutions started as a community outreach grassroots movement that worked with trained technicians, to assist parents as they set out to battle their unwelcome houseguests. From the start, Lice Solutions’ desire was to provide parents with safe and effective means for dealing with head lice. Its goal was to better educate parents in ways to prevent the spread of head lice, in hopes of minimizing the ever-growing number of cases. Lice Solutions also hoped that a better understanding would effectively help end the negative stigma associated with having head lice. Technicians started traveling across a three-county area and in some cases even to other states where no help was available. Phone support was made available not only in the local calling area, but also in just about every state in the country. In one such case a call was even returned to Great Britain. Understandably, this became a tiresome and costly project. Much of the burden of this cost fell on the shoulders of those parents looking to help make a difference. The organization diligently looked for better ways to accomplish its goals. The result was the formation of a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Since then, Lice Solutions has helped thousands of families and to date remains the only nonprofit lice treatment organization in the country. With offices in Florida and Tennessee, Lice Solutions is an acknowledged leader in the industry and Executive Director Katie Shepherd is recognized as one of the top head lice experts in the world. In an attempt to keep up with lice-related demands and to help further much-needed services, Lice Solutions added training, research, global outreach, and family foundation divisions.