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HeartShare President and CEO Bill Guarinello is celebrating 45 years of dedicated service to the agency.

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, 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’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…

This video, presented at HeartShare’s 2015 Spring Gala and Auction, offers a glimpse of how HeartShare expands opportunities and enhances lives for children and adults diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Through their HeartShare experience, which encourages independence, prioritizes community inclusion, as well as celebrates and nurtures human potential, Zarah, Isabella and Nicholas now eagerly…

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.

The New York City Training Collaborative, which includes HeartShare, United Cerebral Palsy of New York and Services for the Underserved, has been recognized with the 2015 Moving Mountains Award. The University of Minnesota’s Research and Training Center and National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals (NADSP) issue this prestigious award, which recognizes organizations for developing a…