Hospitals are intentionally designed to support medical safety and healing. Homes often are not. Designing Dreams transforms children's bedrooms into treatment-informed healing environments where they can safely heal, rest, recover, learn, and simply be kids throughout cancer treatment. ♥
As pediatric cancer treatment has shifted from hospitals into the home, children now spend the majority of their treatment recovering in bedrooms that were never designed to support the physical and emotional realities of prolonged cancer care. Families return home to environments that often depend entirely on financial circumstances, housing conditions, caregiving capacity, and available space.
Designing Dreams exists to bridge that gap, we transform children's bedrooms into treatment-informed healing environments designed to support recovery at home. More than a beautiful bedroom, we create spaces that help children safely heal, rest, recover, and experience the joy of simply being a kid throughout treatment.
Diagnosed with B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL) in April 2025, Waylon is expected to remain in treatment through 2027. For his dream bedroom, Waylon envisioned something out of this world. Inspired by the beauty of the galaxy, he dreams of deep blues, greens, and purples, and plenty of display space for the collections he's spent years building.
By Mail: Checks can be made payable to Designing Dreams USA and mailed to: 2804 Gateway Oaks Drive, Suite 100, Sacramento, CA 95833.
Zelle: designingdreamsusa
Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs): We are an approved charity on Fidelity Charitable and other major DAF platforms. Contributions can be made directly through your DAF account.
EIN: 93-2279888
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