by Jennifer Mirsky | Sep 13, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories, Uncategorized
Even though she is the youngest of four daughters, 13-year-old Bardha Fusha became the de-facto translator when her family emigrated from Albania to America. A teenaged Bardha, at her home in Fier, Albania, dances as her family learns that they’ve been granted the...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Sep 7, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories, The New LIFE School
These are our final graduating classes from The New LIFE School — a special education therapeutic day school that’s provided educational and vocational training to 175 students in grades 3-12. The celebrations were bittersweet as the school will officially close its...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Aug 29, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
“The smart parents don’t take the kids out of my program to put them elsewhere in pre-K. When the kids leave me at age five, they are reading and writing and doing what they’re supposed to do at the kindergarten level. They are prepared and ready to learn.” So...
by Jennifer Mirsky | Jul 5, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
At our Bergen Street Residence, we have installed our very first garden on our roof and in our backyard, thanks to a partnership with New York Restoration Project. Program participants can engage in holistic activities and receive the therapeutic benefits of our...
by Jennifer Mirsky | May 30, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
Pictured from L to R at the farm they owned in Olney, Maryland, 1943: Brothers Lloyd and Robert; father Harold; Dog Peggy; Ken; brother Bradley. Four of the five children returned here in 1983 to figure out a life-time care plan for their mother. Ken Sherman,...
by Jennifer Mirsky | May 25, 2023 | News & Announcements, Stories
“Many of our immigrants come to us with just the clothes on their backs,” says Fortitude House Program Director Bardha Fusha, MSW. “We have seen a lot of them go through detention centers, where they are stripped of any belongings that they may have. We...
