Recently, Dream Streets helped me secure a mortgage on a new home. It meant so much to me to have them there as I walked through that process and was able to make my dream a reality.

Coming to a city where you really don’t know anybody and starting over can be very hard. At times, I felt lonely having no family support and felt isolated. A friend and neighbor of mine had started talking about going to a place for moms and children called the Dream Center.

Now you have to know that I thought homeownership was only a dream in America for the average family, but especially for a Black woman that had been through as much turmoil and trauma as I had experienced.

I started volunteering at the Dream Center back in 2013, a couple of months after it opened its doors.

My journey with the West Nashville Dream Center started with a knock on the door.

In 2019, our apartment caught fire and we lost everything. There were a lot of different people and organizations that reached out saying that they wanted to help, but all of them fell through except one–the Dream Center.