Family for Keeps® Referral Line: 678-485-4810
Now Accepting Transition Care and Respite Care Referrals
Transition Care Home in Lilburn, Ga.
Before Dream House, families in Georgia did not have access to a formal, community-based education or training program that prepares them to support the care of these children at home. Our generous donors and friends have helped make the Dream House Family for Keeps® Transition Care Program a statewide resource for children diagnosed medically fragile.
The only Hospital-to-Home Transition Care Program in Georgia.
- Our Transition Care Program is the first and only Children's Transition Care Center in the nation licensed under the new CTCC Licensure. We provide temporary, family-centered home care for medically fragile children while their own family members and homes are prepared to care for them.
- Our Education and Skills Training Curriculums (Basic, Advanced and Professional Courses) are interactive learning experiences that teach families, caregivers, social workers and other non-medical professionals how to provide safe and effective care for medically fragile children at home. 2010 Class Schedule
- Our Bridging the Gap Program helps families (biological, adoptive or foster) acquire therapies, equipment, health care supplies and home modifications to provide safe and accessible homes to meet their children's specialized needs.
- We recruit, prepare and train respite care providers and foster families for the placement of medically fragile children via our Resource Family Program.
- The Dream House Advocacy Program strives to heighten public awareness for the plight of medically fragile children by linking private and public sector initiatives to meet the specialized needs of this rapidly growning, extremely vulnerable pediatric population.
Dream House is the pioneer championing the cause for medically fragile children. We are blazing the trail with absolutely no precedent to follow. By providing appropriate training and resources to their families, caregivers and those individuals making recommendations on their behalf, medically fragile children can successfully transition from institutions to home environments.
Successful continuation and expansion of the Dream House Family for Keeps™ Transition Care Program will further increase opportunities for medically fragile children to live in stable, permanent home environments with dignity and the quality of life they deserve. Learn how you can help.
Read the results of a successful collaboration between the Dream House Transition Care Program and local foster placement agency Community Connections, Inc. In great partnership, our respective staffs and this child's foster parents worked very hard to make sure the transition was smooth and the placement best for her.
