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Dream House For Medically Fragile Children

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Holiday Spotlight: Dream House for Medically Fragile Children

The holidays are a good time to remember local charities that may need your help. Today we spotlight Dream House for Medically Fragile Children.

This Lilburn-area nonprofit continues to assist children who have very critical needs, despite challenging times.  This nonprofit seeks to assist children who are deemed medically fragile, and their families with educational workshops, financial help (through gift cards for food and other items), and other supportive services.  Children diagnosed as medically fragile by doctors may have a chronic health conditions such as diabetes, traumatic brain injury, or cerebral palsy; be a transplant recipient and require special support; and have limited mobility due to paralysis or chronic disease. Laura Moore, along with assistance from her husband, Mike, founded Dream House for Medically Fragile Children, Inc, in 2001. Since then the nonprofit …

Monday, September 19, 2011

Dream House Remains Open, Suspends Critical Program

Dream House for Medically Fragile Children, based in Snellville, is restructuring the organization to help save it from complete closure.

Dream House for Medically Fragile Children is still hoping to raise enough money to keep the center open and to restore critical programs. Officials at Dream House have said that the board is in the middle of restructuring, so that a complete closure does not beset the nonprofit in the next few weeks. Already Dream House had to suspend its transitional home in Lilburn.  However, the nonprofit's Family for Keeps education and training and Bridging the Gap, a privately funded program that provides needed resources for families and caregivers of medically fragile children, are still up and running. Over the years, Dream House has helped more than 1,000 children through its various programs. "Dream House is now in urgent need of donations to …

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