GiGi’s NYC: Quarterly Highlights April-June 2024
July 6, 2024
| GiGi’s NYC recently closed out our spring semester, and it was nothing short of amazing! Check out the recap below to read about our remarkable 2nd quarter: We launched our spring semester which included recurring community favorites such as Fantastic Friends and LitLab, as well as the re-launch of Community Chorus. Steve Friedman and his wife hosted our community for the workshop, “March to Independence.” They shared essential information to help navigate the path toward independence for those with Down syndrome. Topics included social, safety, health, financial/benefits, legal instruments, housing, and more. You can watch the recording here. We held a Mother’s Day celebration at our playhouse where our participants made chocolate dipped strawberries and played fun games with their mothers and mother figures. Participants engaged in basketball and soccer drills at our Sports Clinic. Parents joined us for our second Family RoundTable, where we discussed the ongoing needs of our participants and how to work as a team to improve our operations. Taylor’d Speech and Language Services hosted our community for the two-part virtual workshop, “Understanding Feeding Challenges.” They provided a comprehensive overview of feeding challenges in infants, with a focus on differentiating between dysphagia and feeding delays. They also provided strategies to support safe feeding, taught therapy approaches to manage dysphagia in children, and explored assessment methods and tools used by professionals to identify and evaluate these conditions. Our Outreach Committee represented us at the HYROX NYC event, where we spread our mission of acceptance and awareness while raising funds. We moved for acceptance at our 10th Annual Dancing For Down Syndrome event as part of the national GiGiFIT Acceptance Challenge. All seven students from our inaugural GiGi University class graduated! It was a wonderful semester filled with hands-on learning in and out of the classroom. Our students visited the Royal Bank of Canada, Mastercard, the High Line, and Perkins&Will. Check out this video for a recap. We kicked off our highly popular summer programs, starting with our participants 18+ at Fantastic Friends. Alivia announced their latest collections with GiGi’s NYC participants, Charlotte and Victoria. Check them out here. |
| We are extremely thankful for all our amazing participants, families, volunteers, donors, staff and community partners. We can do what we do because of YOU! |
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