The story
In the fall of 2001, Laura O. Moore founded the organization as The Dream House for Kids, a non-profit organization dedicated to moving medically fragile children out of institutions and to educate these children's families, caregivers, and communities about issues that affect them. Moore was trained as a pediatric intensive care nurse.
In December 2002 the organization was renamed the Dream House For Medically Fragile Children.
Laura Moore and her husband took in Katie as a foster child in 2004.
The organization expanded in 2004, hiring a separate Executive Director, allowing the founder to serve in other ways.
"Person of the Week"
During 2008, ABC News with Charles Gibson regularly ran a segment named "Person of the Week" that highlighted extraordinary persons. ABC News had noticed the story of Laura Moore and the Dream House in People magazine.
Laura Moore as "ABC Person of the Week" became a segment on nationwide news. Gibson called the house an "oasis in rural Georgia..." (1:15 on). Laura had by then found homes for 12 children.
Care and closure
The organization ran an actual transitional housing facility in a large house, but it was forced to close the house in 2011 for financial reasons, leading to some of its wards being replaced into state custody. During the course of its existence, the Dream House had about 100 residents.
The organization had served about 1,000 children, of which about 100 had actually lived in the house for some period. Those were the most dire cases, of orphans and those whose families could not adequately handle their care.
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The house served as a "live-in transition home for children dependent on equipment, medication or constant nursing care to survive, many of which are orphans or wards of the state" and was "essentially rescuing them from living in the hospital as they awaited a caring foster family."
According to the organization, ninety percent of children served were served via weekend programs training and assisting families, and other non-residential care.
In the financial statements for the year ending June 30, 2014, the board of directors stated that with regret the organization was to close down in August.
From Wikipedia’s article on Dream House for Medically Fragile Children, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4