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Barbara Cuthel is the Founder and Co-Curator of ArtShare for HeartShare, a gallery exhibit featuring artwork created by children and adults with disabilities participating in HeartShare programs. The artists’ repertoire includes drawings, paintings, collages, photographs and prints. This multimedia collection also includes HeartShare’s Jewelry Studio featuring hand-crafted necklaces, earrings and bracelets. “This exhibition is just…

Jim Kerr, HeartShare Board Member and host of the Jim Kerr Rock & Roll Morning Show on Q104.3 FM, discussed over thirty years of volunteer service to HeartShare with Q104.3 FM’s Shelli Sonstein. The segment, which aired on Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 7:15 a.m., highlighted a group home named after Kerr in 2012. The…

Dominion Transmission Teams Up with Utilities and HeartShare to Help Families Stay Warm This Winter

HeartShare has 38 supervised group homes and 42 independent living apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. HeartShare’s staff ultimately hopes to see an individual become as independent as possible and live more inclusively in the New York community. Eric formerly lived at the Short Residence, a HeartShare…

Darron was one of the first HeartShare-trained employees of Cleaning with Meaning, a green home and office cleaning business serving the five boroughs of New York City and lower Westchester County that was founded by HeartShare and its partners at the New York Integrated Network (NYIN). During his training to become a cleaning technician, Darron…

(Holliswood, NY) – HeartShare’s Tamara Tunie and Gregory V. Generet Residence, which is home to six men with intellectual and developmental disabilities, hosted a celebratory dinner to commemorate the one-year anniversary of its opening in January 2013. Prior to the opening of the Tunie-Generet Residence, the six men, diagnosed with mild to severe disabilities, lived…

Today, 1 in 59 children are diagnosed with autism. HeartShare’s early childhood programs target developmental delays as soon as possible. “At two years old, he was pointing and talking, but still couldn’t verbalize at times,” recalled Brandon’s mother, Tatiana. During his two years as a pre-schooler at HeartShare’s Cuomo First Step Early Childhood Center, Brandon…

President and CEO William R. Guarinello of HeartShare Human Services of New York rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, launching HeartShare’s centennial anniversary. HeartShare board members, including Chairman Paul J. Torre, Second Vice Chair John T. Sharkey, Treasurer Michael J. Abatemarco, Dr. Joseph A. Caruana and Jonathan C. Goldstein, Esq., also…

During the evening of February 28, one of HeartShare’s two Beacon Programs entertained family and friends with a celebration of African-American History.

Late last week New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced an amendment to his proposed 2013-14 Budget that will be devastating for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who receive services from HeartShare and other non-profit provider agencies in New York State.