Closing the Gaps. Changing Lives
Dream Achievers Resource & Development Center is a nonprofit based in Lake Wales, Florida, focused on ending hidden homelessness families in motels, teens couch-surfing, or adults in housing crisis.
We serve all of Polk County, including Lakeland, Winter Haven, Bartow, Eagle Lake, Auburndale, Davenport, and Haines City.
Our approach is simple but powerful:
Closing the Gaps. Changing Lives
We target root causes earlyespecially with youth and system-involved individuals.
Programs include:
Pathways to Possibilities FAFSA, college access, and career planning for high school and foster youth
Reentry Support stabilization and support for individuals exiting incarceration
Youth Mentoring & Life Skills
When crisis hits, we act fast.
We provide hands-on support for individuals and families in immediate need.
Programs include:
Hand Up for Adults financial case management, budgeting, and resource navigation
Foreclosure Prevention help for homeowners behind on payments in Polk County
Emergency Gap Services rental, utility, and transitional help
Giving people the tools to thrive.
We build long-term financial confidence, not dependency.
Programs include:
Financial Fitness Academy our signature financial literacy and credit education program
Business Builder Academy entrepreneurship training for low-income individuals and second-chance learners
Credit Repair & Coaching Workshops
People served in the last 30 days
Volunteer hours last month
Youth reached at recent Financial Literacy Summit
 Active foreclosure prevention cases in Lakeland, Bartow, and Haines City
I don't know without you and God I would be just walking around on the neighborhood just hanging out and smoking.
If it wasn't for you no telling how long we would have been sleeping outside behind that building.
Thank you! Everyone else told us it was to late, but you helped us save our home when no one thought it was possible.
Support our mission to
fight homelessness across Polk County
through prevention, not just reaction.
