Archive of “civil rights”

At HeartShare, we dared to ask: Why can’t people with disabilities do more? Why can’t they dream like the rest of us?

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.

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.