At Fostering Dreams Project our mission is to transform the lives of youth in foster care through the healing art of dance and performing arts.
We provide exclusive opportunities to learn dance as a way of being more expressive, socially, and academically engaged to help youth build confidence, become leaders, and create brighter futures.

By providing a structured curriculum aligned with the California VAPA Standards that produces positive outcomes for youth, our purpose is to ensure foster and at-risk youth make measurable progress in the areas of:
– education and psychosocial development
– strengthen their skills in dance, choreography, and historical cultural context
– acquire new dance skills and knowledge
– develop self-awareness, and discipline
– improve problem solving and decision making skills
– develop a love and understanding for the art of dance

Through the combination of dance instruction, history, and meditative and self-reflective practices, “soft skills,” such as leadership, teamwork, motivation, self- expression, emotional wellbeing, and self-discipline are developed throughout the program.