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  • Volunteer holds up a dog that licks the face of a participant. The volunteer is smiling to the camera.

    Easterseals Celebrates Volunteers – Both Two and Four-Legged

    Bill Sudell may be the ‘official’ volunteer when he signs in for duty at the Easterseals in New Castle but it’s his dog, Skipper, who is the star of the show. For the last six years Bill Sudell and Skipper, an eight-year-old Schnoodle, have brightened the days of the people who attend Easterseals day services.

  • Easterseals Receives Autism Speaks Chapter Grant

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore is proud to announce that it has received a $5,000 Autism Speaks Chapter Grant to better serve children with autism at Easterseals Camp Fairlee. Children with autism are able to enjoy a typical camp experience, including swimming, canoeing and campfires, with one-to-one counselor support. Easterseals has been offering autism sessions for the past six years, and this grant will help ensure children continue to receive the highest level of care.

  • Easterseals Receives CARES Relief Act Health Equity Grant

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore announced that it has received a grant from the New Castle County CARES Relief Act Health Equity Grant. The grant funding will make it possible for Easterseals to purchase technology to be loaned to community-based participants, who because of health risks are unable to attend in-person services. With the loaned technology, participants will have the ability to access Easterseals virtual programming services.
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    Easterseals Announces the Bill Adami Fund for Innovation

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore has announced “The Bill Adami Fund for Innovation” in memory of their recent President/CEO, and longtime disability advocate, William J. Adami. The creation of a fund bearing his name is to honor Adami’s legacy of leadership and innovation at Easterseals.

  • Easterseals Honors Governor Jack Markell And Robert J.A. Fraser For Their Advocacy For People With Disabilities

    Governor Jack Markell will be presented with the Outstanding Advocate Award by National Easterseals President/CEO, Jim Williams, at Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore’s 2014 Annual Dinner on Wednesday, October 8th. Additionally, Robert J.A. Fraser, longtime board member of the local affiliate, will be recognized with the Drex Jones Volunteer Award for his extraordinary service to people with disabilities in the region.
  • Direct support professional painting with a participant with an intellectual disability

    Easterseals Introduces 2018 Volleyball Ambassador

    When Emily Hurst, of Hockessin, first walked through the doors of Easterseals she was very nervous, but little did she know how much she would grow to love the environment, the staff, new friends and, of course, the dance parties. As those nerves faded, Emily’s mom, Julia, has watched her grow into a more independent woman thanks to the skills she is learning at Easterseals.
  • A man with a disability in a swimming pool with his counselor

    Easterseals Camp Fairlee is a Vacation for Campers and Their Families

    Tina was reluctant to leave her youngest son, Kyle, for the first time at Easterseals Camp Fairlee. Thanks to some gentle nudging from her daughter-in-law, she was finally persuaded to give it a chance. All that worry went away as soon as she opened the car door and saw Kyle’s smiling face.
  • Graphic showing a supported employee and two people presenting a large check

    Easterseals Receives Grant from Safeway Foundation for Supported Employment Program

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore recently received a grant from Safeway Foundation to support its Supported Employment program – a program that opens the door to meaningful work and competitive wages in the community for adults with intellectual disabilities, while providing employers with dedicated, productive employees.
  • Employee wearing a mask is wearing an orange vest and has his hands resting on shopping carts

    Easterseals Receives Grant from Discover Bank for Supported Employment Program

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore recently received a $25,000 grant from Discover Bank to support its Supported Employment program – a program that opens the door to meaningful work and competitive wages in the community for adults with intellectual disabilities, while providing employers with dedicated, productive employees. Each year, Easterseals partners with over 60 businesses around Delaware to recruit and train individuals with disabilities for their workplace.
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    Arthur W. Perdue Foundation Grant Helps Easterseals Provide New Type of Therapy for Children

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore is bringing a new type of therapy to its Salisbury children’s therapy services thanks to a $5,500 grant funded by the Arthur W. Perdue Foundation. The grant will help provide children with a variety of diagnoses a therapy known as Interactive Metronome (IM). IM is used to improve concentration, coordination, language processing, math/reading skills, and impulse control.