News and Events

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Recent News

Barbara Cuthel Empowers Special Needs Children & Adults Through Art

Category: Impact Stories

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…

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Barbara Cuthel Empowers Special Needs Children & Adults Through Art

Category: Impact Stories

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…

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Man with Special Needs Embraces Growing Independence through HeartShare’s Community Living Program

Category: Impact Stories

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…

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Tunie-Generet Residence in Queens Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

Category: In The Media

(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…

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Pre-Schooler with Autism Transitions to Mainstream Kindergarten

Category: Impact Stories

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…

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