Special Needs

COME CREATE ART WITH US THIS SUMMER!

At Children’s Art Therapy, we use art materials to express ourselves!  Children’s Art Therapy uses various art techniques and materials to explore feelings, develop social skills, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem, as well as simply learning to enjoy the art process and all it has to offer. Art opens the […]

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Take me out to the ballgame with Special Olympics

For the second season, the Hoboken Recreation department, Hoboken Family Alliance and Special Olympics have partnered to offer up two levels of baseball clinics starting Tuesday, April 28 on the Little League Field. The program is open to area individuals with cognitive disabilities ages 3-5 for T-Ball and 6-12 for Developmental Baseball. Children enrolled in

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Special Olympics Young Athletes Program Returns to Hoboken

It’s Fall and time for the Young Athletes program. The Special Olympics training program for children with special needs is designed to foster fundamental athletic skills for cognitively delayed children, 2.5-years-old to 7-years-old. The six week course runs Saturdays, starting on Oct. 13, from 10 am – 11 am, at the St. Francis Community Center,

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Sidewalk Carnival raises money & awareness for bike camp

The sun and smiles shined brightly as hundreds turned up at Ben & Jerry’s Thursday for ice cream, face painting and balloons for the Sidewalk Carnival to benefit the HFA’s 2nd Annual Lose the Training Wheels Bike Camp. Sibel Berberoglu, owner of the Hoboken Ben & Jerry’s, hosted the benefit that provided 20% of sales

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h-Mag Mixer to benefit Hoboken Family Alliance bike camp for children with special needs

  The Hoboken Family Alliance is proud to announce the 2nd Annual Lose the Training Wheels Bike Camp to teach children with special needs to ride a two-wheel bicycle and proud to be the featured charity at the monthly h-Mag Mixer Thursday, March 29. Join us at Carpe Diem starting at 7 pm. The popular

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