Precious Dreams Foundation

Our mission

SLEEP WELL, DREAM BIG, AND FOLLOW THROUGH

Precious Dreams Foundation provides sleep support, teaches healthy coping mechanisms, and connects youth experiencing foster care and homelessness to the resources, opportunities, and pathways needed to pursue their dreams.
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28,140

Youth Served

May 1, 2026

146,595

Comfort Items Distributed

May 1, 2026

678,100

Value of Mental Health Resources

February 1, 2025

90,000

Funds Distributed Via Microgrants

February 1, 2026

FIRST RESPONDERS

Providing immediate relief to every child in New York City's foster care system

The NYC Comfort Shop is a first-of-its-kind retail-style wellness space that offers trauma-informed workshops, special events and a free high-quality essentials and comfort items to children within their first 24-48 hours in care. Serving premium products, high-quality coping tools and wellness workshops. Children in foster care often face emotional and psychological challenges as they adjust to new environments.

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Everyone Deserves
Big Dreams

Breaking systemic barriers for youth entering and exiting cycles of instability
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youth

facing housing instability are 4x more likely to struggle with sleep and anxiety

Every 2 Minutes

a child enters the foster care system

4.2 million

children and young adults experience homelessness each year

Children in foster care often face emotional and psychological challenges as they adjust to new environments.
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Children experiencing homelessness worry about where they will sleep on a given night, and if they have a place to sleep, they are afraid of losing it.
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We aim to inspire a generation of well-rested and self-affirmed young people who will transform their lives and change the world. The Precious Dreams Foundation serves youth as they enter and exit foster care and homeless shelters, providing support during two of their most challenging transitional periods. Join us in serving thousands of newborns, children and young adults each year!

Our Approach

Trauma-Informed Care + Wraparound Services

Adulting with ai assists

Adulting is hard, but it doesn't have to be with the right assists. Hosted by Nicole Russell-Wharton, founder of Precious Dreams Foundation, this show is for young people who have questions nobody is answering and moves nobody is helping them make.

Adulting with ai assists is an education-focused digital initiative designed to equip young people with the tools to use AI strategically as they navigate the transition into adulthood—especially those facing barriers to access, guidance, and opportunity. The series is co-produced in collaboration with program participants from the Precious Dreams Foundation’s Dream Equity Cohort, providing them with hands-on experience in media production, storytelling, and thought leadership.

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