HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) empowers children, individuals and families to overcome the challenges of family crises, addiction, mental illness and poverty. Working together, HSVS opens new doors of opportunity to help clients achieve healthy and happy lives. With four programmatic divisions - Foster Care and Preventive Programs; Integrated Health Services; Residential and Housing Programs; Youth Development and Community Programs - HSVS staff members serve over 6,000 New Yorkers each year, including over 2,700 of the city’s most vulnerable youth. This continuum of services enables HSVS to meet clients’ unique circumstances and needs, equipping them with tools and skills needed to achieve their dreams. By offering a stable home, a safe place to go after school, a means to graduate college and the skills to achieve physical and mental well-being, HSVS equalizes opportunities for those who need it most. HSVS is proud that 90% of all revenue directly supports our programs and services.
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Foster Care Unplugged is focused on enriching and developing the lives of youth in foster care and is committed to promoting positive outcomes for disadvantaged children at risk to being placed in the child welfare system. The Mission of Foster Care Unplugged is to identify foster care youth, and develop their emotional-social skills on their journey to resiliency and success within their educational and social environment on their way to adulthood. This can be completed through Foster Care Unplugged’s vision of bringing awareness in order to identify partnerships, and initiatives with those who can contribute to the mission. |
Slay The Runway 2017
Last year’s show took place at Sanders Studios in Clinton Hill and featured sixteen youths who are currently part of HeartShare St. Vincent's Services (HSVS) foster care program. The Show was a great success, not only allowing for youth to show their courage and self confidence but also raising over $10,000.
