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$50
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A weighted blanket for Josiah to help with sleep improvement

Posted Sep 8, 2024
Josiah can benefit from having this blanket to assist with increasing his ability to sleep through the night. There have been so many changes in his life within a very short few weeks and this has affected his sleep negatively. He is unable to sleep through the night because he worries about the sibling that he is separated from currently. He did not get to say goodbye to his only parent before she passed away. This is huge worry for him because he thinks about all the possible ways things could have been if he remained at home with his parent and blames himself for the parent passing. He likes hugs and this blanket provides weight/pressure that he has been use to help him manage his emotions when they are overwhelming. Josiah experiences a lot of anxiety and this blanket can help reduce this.

Josiah is 15 years old and lives in NJ

Josiah is responsible and does well with taking ownership for his choices although he is the middle child. He has a very close relationship with his 2 other siblings and want to keep it this way as he loves being with them. He is resilient, empathic, respectful, and open to learning. Unfortunately, Josiah and his siblings were kept in their home and missed out on many years of typical child development, social skills development, and communication. He and his siblings recently came into foster care due to their parent being ill and shortly passing away. The world outside of their home is so much bigger than he knew just from what they saw through media and looking out the windows of their house. He is curious about developing friends outside of his siblings although this is something he is excited to develop. Unfortunately, shortly after the passing of their mother they were split up and placed in separate foster homes. Josiah wants to be with his siblings as much as he can. He doesn't have too many things that he likes at this time due to the lack of exposure that the family had. He enjoys the taste of pizza after trying it for the 1st time. He is still working on being comfortable in new environments and fortunately he has been placed in a foster home where the family has received training to parent children with such a huge trauma history especially with the recently loss of his only parent and separation from the siblings, he has lived with all his life. Everyone who encounters him is aware that they have to be very patient with him as he needs time to be comfortable with trying anything new due to his lack of exposure to other things that he did not have any control over.

The Wish Story

NJ DCFS - Essex County requests this wish for Josiah.

One Simple Wish posts the wish to the website.

Awesome Human grants the wish for Josiah! Thanks Awesome Human.

"Hi Josiah, I am so glad that I can gift you this weighted blanket. I sleep with one every night and it makes a huge difference in how well I sleep. Enjoy "

One Simple Wish sends the gift to the NJ DCFS - Essex County for Josiah.

Josiah receives the wish from NJ DCFS - Essex County

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