“It was one month in and I said to myself, I love this baby,” said Tawannah Jordan, who fostered and will adopt three-year-old Ruben, who is wheelchair bound. Tawannah, who has been a transit worker for the past 25 years and experienced foster care herself, started her relationship with Ruben with weekly visits at St….

Seventeen year old Yvesa uses a wheelchair and has several chronic medical conditions. For Tanara, medical appointments were a hardship. As a working mom, it felt impossible to keep up with consistent schedule of Yvesa’s many medical appointments. Also, at times, Tanara would have to choose between groceries and taxi fare to bring her wheelchair-bound…

“Our entire life was destroyed,” said Alberta about the shock her family experienced discovering all was lost in their Coney Island home following Superstorm Sandy. “The first time I visited the house after the storm, I saw a photo of my daughter that had been carried by storm waters nearly halfway down the block. It…

Roy and his daughters, Julianna, 16, and Christina, 13, experienced an overwhelming personal loss in their family. When they first started attending counseling sessions at Bensonhurst Family Services, Roy, Julianna and Christina found it difficult to express how this loss deeply affected their lives. During art therapy sessions, Case Planner and Art Therapist Katie Hinson…