Our Story
The inception of the Onlife Foundation is a story founded in friendship; in the often unrelenting, unforgiving imperative that an authentic life can only be shared through a position of personal serenity, empowerment and truth.
The friendship between Roy and Sean saw them through the transition from adolescence to adulthood - from high school to college to professional life. During this time, they learned that an appreciation for wellness, nature, art, and culture were powerful keys to developing that which really mattered most in their young lives.
To this end they collaborated to found The Indigo Movement, incorporated in 2000. The Indigo Movement was a 501 (c)(3) organization that functioned as a violence and delinquency prevention program for children and youth.
After almost a decade of service in this arena, Roy and Sean separated paths. Roy moving into the field of recovery and mental health, eventually founding Back2Basics Outdoor Adventure Recovery, while Sean went on to focus on professional healthcare, eventually to establish his own clinical practice.
The creation of Onlife is, in many ways, a story that speaks to their maturation - both personally and professionally.
Laura's real life need to address the potentially devastating effects of alcoholism brought her son and family to Roy and Back2Basics in Flagstaff. The success they experienced here inspired a vision in Laura that involved making effective treatment and recovery programs more accessible and available to those in need. It was the friendship between Laura and Ann that allowed this vision to coalesce and gain purchase as a viable and successful project. They approached Roy and began the initial paperwork. Together the three serve as the Board of Directors for Onlife. Through this position, Roy reached out to Sean, inviting him back into the non-profit area to help lead Onlife as its executive director.
As such, the Onlife Foundation begins its mission in direct partnership with Back2Basics in order to provide financial aid and program support to help dedicated individuals on their path toward sobriety and recovery. It is our intention to begin this work here; to refine it and calibrate its success so that we may eventually expand to offer the same support to other proven and effective programs and, thereby, extend our reach to many more individuals through multiple demographics across the nation.
Roy J. DuPrez
President, Founding Director
Throughout his academic and professional career, Roy J. DuPrez, MEd has worked with a multitude of young adults and at-risk youth. He has done an extensive amount of work with community organizations, such as Americorps, The Indigo Movement Inc., Weed and Seed Community Development and The Guidance Center Adolescent Unit. Roy co-founded and developed various community programs, including The Indigo Movement Inc. and Juntos Podemos, which focus on life skills and personal development, community cultural awareness as well as drug abuse prevention and alcohol abuse prevention and rehabilitation.
As CEO and founder of Back2Basics Outdoor Adventure Recovery, Roy has had the privilege and skill to extend the gift of recovery to a multitude of young persons since the inception of the program in 2010. He has come on board with Onlife in order to offer this opportunity to those who truly desire sobriety and are committed to achieve it - not to just those who can afford it.
Laura LeVee
Founding Director and Board of Directors, Treasurer
Laura grew up in New Jersey and New York. After spending time in Florida, she wound up raising her family in the South Bay of Los Angeles. As such, Laura considers herself just a "regular South Bay mom." Laura can frequently be found playing tennis, golf and bridge throughout the South Bay.
After having experienced alcoholism in her family as a child, Laura encountered alcoholism again as a mother, when her son became addicted while in college. His years-long fight with alcoholism, and ultimate treatment at the Back2Basics recovery center in Flagstaff, AZ, inspired her to create a vision that led to the co-founding of OnLife.
Laura's original idea in creating OnLife was to help a single young man or woman, who did not have sufficient financial resources, to enter a long-term treatment facility for alcoholism. But the idea has blossomed into something far more substantial as Onlife has become a much more significant charity that now aims to help numerous young adults fight addiction.
Laura is grateful for the support of her friends and family, and for the enormous assistance of those who are volunteering so much of their time to support OnLife with its mission.
Ann Grant
Founding Director and Board of Directors, Secretary
Ann Grant is a Los Angeles attorney specializing in California Family Law. She is the founder and managing partner of Manhattan Beach Family Law. Her bestselling book, The Divorce Hacker's Guide to Untying the Knot provides legal, financial, and psychological expertise to help people navigate divorce with less professional help. Ann participates on many podcasts and panels and is frequently asked to speak about her experiences both in and out of the courtroom.
She is a mother and grandmother.
Ann received her juris doctorate degree from the University of San Diego School of Law where she graduated cum laude in 1991. While there, she served as editor of the San Diego Law Review. She is the former editor of the Woman Advocate Newsletter, the official publication of the Woman Advocate Committee of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association and a former adjunct professor at Southwestern University in Los Angeles.
Ann is excited to join forces with like-minded individuals at OnLife to provide support for young adults recovering from substance abuse. Having witnessed the power of recovery, Ann is committed to sharing this experience with the broader community.
S. A. Orlando
Executive Director
Sean has always cultivated a life-long passion for health, wellbeing and empowerment. Pursuing the potential of the human being, as well as the individual and collective allowance of its realization has consistently been a driving force in his personal, professional and spiritual life from an early age.
In the year 2000, Sean completed a postgraduate study that explored personal empowerment strategies to help prevent violence and delinquency in children and youth. This study helped him earn a Masters degree in Good and Sustainable Communities, through Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. His thesis served as a foundation that allowed Sean to co-found (together with Back to Basics founder and CEO, Roy Duprez) and direct The Indigo Movement, Inc. - a non-profit organization that served over 2000 children and youth in Northern Arizona.
In 2006, Sean moved to Portland, Oregon to study Classical Chinese Medicine at the National University of Natural Medicine, allowing him to turn his focus from community health to that of the individual. Here he completed a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine in 2010. After graduating, Sean went on to co-found and direct successful clinical practices in Portland, Manhattan and Beacon, New York.
Sean has reunited with his old friend and co-visionary, Roy Duprez, in order to direct and serve the mission of Onlife, thus continuing his passion to foster both community and individual health through sobriety and personal empowerment.
When you give to support the mission of the Onlife Foundation, you are supporting programs that save lives. By ensuring that individuals, families and communities have access to lifesaving programs and resources, your gift makes hope and healing possible.
