HeartShare’s Energy Assistance and Community Development Program often is on the road educating program recipients and the public about its grant opportunities, including at National Grid’s Customer Assistance Expo at Brooklyn Borough Hall on January 26, 2017.

HSVS will host an Open House for its East Brooklyn Family Services Center on Monday, January 30, 2017.

HeartShare presented the Clinton Residence with its 2017 Spirit Award for providing outstanding services to our individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) on Thursday, January 26, 2017.

HeartShare presented the Clinton Residence with its 2017 Spirit Award for providing outstanding services to our individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) on Thursday, January 26, 2017.

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) from HeartShare’s Brooklyn Day Hab can now volunteer and work at Heart’s Home, which is an organization fostering a “culture of compassion” for the world’s neediest people.

The HSVS Preparing Youth for Adulthood (PYA) workshop utilized Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow as a lens for older youth in foster care to reflect on their experiences with institutional racism, as well as learn digestible steps to overcome those systemic challenges.

Last year, HSVS pledged that it would have 100 enrolled scholars by 2020. Many of our scholars attend SUNY and CUNY schools, so with the Excelsior Scholarship, HSVS will be able to exceed that goal.

HeartShare and its Family of Services are reminding its program participants and their families, as well as its employees how to report the potential abuse or neglect of people with I/DD.

HeartShare Human Services administers four energy funds for low-income households, including National Grid’s Neighborhood Heating Fund, which is open for the 2017 season.

A Brooklyn family in the care of HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) received a generous holiday donation from the team at Bay Ridge Credit Union on Thursday, December 22.