Our mission


Our mission
Build a community to educate, empower, and support people fighting sleepiness
Our vision
A world where sleepiness is better understood and where everyone feels awake enough to achieve their full potential
Our values
- Empathetic: We strive to understand the experiences of all of our constituents and the impact of what we do.
- Engaged: We listen, learn, and engage with the community.
- Informed: We stay connected to our community so we can be an accessible trusted source of information.
- Accountable: We are good stewards of all foundation resources.

Our goals
- Providing high-quality, timely information to people with hypersomnias, their supporters and healthcare professionals.
- Increasing awareness and knowledge of idiopathic hypersomnia and related sleep disorders in medical and educational communities in order to reduce time to diagnosis.
- Building communities and fostering relationships between the patient community and scientific, industrial, and government organizations.
- Supporting the discovery of scientific breakthroughs on the causes and treatments of hypersomnias.
- Translating new discoveries into improved outcomes and quality of life for people with hypersomnias.