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Wish fulfillment organizations for adults and families
Compassion Partners. This Disney program provides children and their families free passes to Disney theme parks. Passes are available by calling ###-###-####.
Deliver the Dream. This organization provides families living with an advanced illness, whether the illness involves a child or a parent, the chance to enjoy a three-day retreat. Health care providers or one of Deliver the Dream's partnering organizations are responsible for referring families to the program.
Dream Foundation. The Dream Foundation fulfills the wishes of adults suffering from advanced illnesses. The foundation helps adults find peace and closure with the realization of a final wish. Dream Foundation grants requests to adults older than 18 years old whose life expectancy, confirmed by their physicians, is one year or less. They must also confirm that they have limited resources.
Memories of Love. This organization provides parents living with a life-threatening illness, whose children are under the age of 16, the chance to form long-lasting memories with their entire family. Families are sent on a five-day, all-expense-paid vacation to Orlando, Florida. A physician, health care provider, or care organization must identify and nominate a parent who has an advanced illness.
Reeling and Healing Midwest. Reeling and Healing Midwest offers fly-fishing wellness retreats for men and women with cancer. The organization helps renew participants' spirits and hopes through fly-fishing, nature, peer coaching, and peer bonding. Patients older than 18 are eligible to apply and are responsible for paying a registration fee and a daily fee.
Second Wind Dreams. This fulfillment organization works to enhance the life of those living in elder care communities in the United States and Canada. By granting wishes to those living in nursing, assisted living, and hospice facilities, this organization desires to change the perception of aging.
United Special Sportsman Alliance. This wish-granting organization specializes in providing children with disabilities or advanced illness and disabled veterans an outdoor adventure of their dreams. Trips include hunting, fishing, water sports, and other activities.