VOLUME 9: ISSUE 7
- Dream House was the only agency, out of 15 calls made by Meriwether County DFCS, to accept this premature baby for placement.
Dream House is Open for Kids!
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Do you really know how your money is spent when you donate to charity? For Dream House supporters, every penny ensures the medically fragile children in our care receive what they need...appropriate and effective nursing care, love and nurturing.
FACT: Unreimbursed direct care expenses for children at the Dream House Transition Care Home in Lilburn are $500 per day, per child. Your cash donations combine with others to provide care for these precious children.
Please click here to make a secure on-line donation.
If 20 people contribute $25 today, those donations will combine to fund one day of care for a child at the Transition Care Home.
Caring for Georgia's Foster Children
This little guy has blossomed while at the Dream House Transition Care Home. Your financial gifts make it possible for Dream House to offer shelter and specialized nursing services for this child.
Our clinical staff was giddy with excitement last week because he rolled over for the first time, by himself. Three months ago, he screamed whenever touched. Now he is making incremental progress that will soon allow him to transition to a new home.
Last night, news of this foster child's pending surgical procedure spread like wildfire among Dream House staff. Who, on the direct care nursing staff, could volunteer their time to stay with him at the hospital to comfort him through the night so he would not have to be alone? Dream House Founder and CEO Laura Moore dropped everything to stay with him.
THIS is what we do...provide care for children who need it the most.
Ironically, this child was placed in the EXACT same room as Laura's young patient, whom she cared for over a decade ago in this hospital...the child who was the catalyst that inspired Laura to start Dream House for Medically Fragile Children. Read Laura's Diary of a Dreamer, Chapter 9.
Referral Line: 678-485-4810
Medically Fragile Respite and Transition Care for Georgia's Biological, Adopted and Foster Children.
Invest Your Pennies to Help a Dream House Child
Since 2006, a total of 371 Georgia child caring/child placement agencies have closed their doors.
SOURCE: Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children/Welfare Watch June 23, 2010 as reported at the June Department of Human Services Board meeting by Georgia's Office of Residential Care, the regulatory arm of the state for private residential care.
Dream House relies on private donations to keep our doors open so we are able to serve children. We have experienced a dramatic shortfall in donations for April, May and now June.
In a brutal economy, we understand that every penny you donate needs a purpose. Dream House was created to give children with complex health care issues the quality of life they deserve by providing them with a home, a family and a future. Incorporated in 2001, Dream House for Medically Fragile Children, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit, charity organization.
The Dream House vision is to empower families to care for medically fragile children at home, improve their quality of life, and benefit the State of Georgia, the tax payers and healthcare institutions by providing a more efficient and effective way to care for these children.
Your pennies increase opportunities for medically fragile children to live in a stable, permanent home environment through the development of support resources and programs which increase the number of families and communities prepared to care for them.
1. Cash donations to fund direct care for our kids. Donate Online or download a donation form to mail with your check.
2. Gift Cards (general retailers and grocery stores)
3. Equipment/Supplies on the Transition Care Home Wish List
