May is National Foster Care Month! At HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services, an affiliate of HeartShare, we hope this month brings more awareness of the families and children who are a part of foster care and encourage more community members to give their support and service to them. We also use this month to recognize the…

HeartShare dedicated its residences for 10 individuals diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities in memory of David Gregory Healy, the brother of HeartShare supporter, Mark C. Healy, on Monday, May 11, 2015.

“These lessons mean so much to Mariapaz. She pursues her passions without being marked as different,” her mother Yolanda beamed. HeartShare’s Options Project Reimbursement Program offers eleven year old Mariapaz, who has Down Syndrome, the opportunity to pursue a personal interest with both physical and social benefits. With the HeartShare Options grant, Mariapaz took swimming…

HeartShare, which educates over 700 children at HeartShare’s four pre-schools (ages 3-5) and The HeartShare School (ages 5-21) diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, celebrated Autism Awareness Month with various events. HeartShare hosted a rock concert fundraiser at St. Finbar’s on Saturday, April 25th, featuring “On A Good Run,” a local band led…

HeartShare’s First Step Early Childhood Center in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, hosted an open house showcase in April 2015 for education administrators and teachers as a model early education program.

HeartShare transforms the lives of children diagnosed with autism, beginning with early intervention. Since 1977, HeartShare has provided services and supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Five years later, those services were expanded to pre-school children as medical evidence showed that early intervention benefits children diagnosed with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, including those…

HeartShare Human Services of New York and NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering have teamed up to create a learning environment that challenges social constructs about disabilities. Adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities from HeartShare’s Day Habilitation Programs have had the opportunity, some for the first time, to learn and grow in the higher education setting….

HeartShare raised almost $600,000 at its 2015 Spring Gala and Auction on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the New York Marriott Marquis.

HeartShare’s Queens Day Habilitation (QDH) Program celebrated its 20th Anniversary in April 2015. The two-day occasion was held at the program, and featured the Block Out Band and its performance group, the Queens Day Hab Players, with guidance from HeartShare employees Betty Green, Dominick Barone and Josh Tanitsky. The program reached this milestone with the…

“Good job, Tallal,” chimed Speech Therapist Samantha Phillips and Occupational Therapist Kristin Tursky, a source of encouragement to a twelve year old boy diagnosed with autism, who under their watch started to speak for the first time ever at The HeartShare School. When a child is diagnosed as non-verbal, the probability of speaking as the…