Archive of “education”

Several HeartShare programs coordinated a social media awareness and safety workshop for its adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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 New York City Training Collaborative, which includes HeartShare, United Cerebral Palsy of New York and Services for the Underserved, has been recognized with NYSACRA’s 2017 Excellence Award.

HeartShare Human Services receives a nearly $130,000 grant annually from the NYC Council Autism Initiative to fund its programs serving children with autism.

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.

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.

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’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 staff advocated in Albany calling for $337 million for the education of special needs children, particularly pre-school programs serving children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.