2024-11-13T16:04:20-06:00 2023-12-31 760269860 Blazek & Vetterling 2900 Weslayan Suite 200 Houston TX 77027 990 2023-01-01 731644107 Educational Programs Inspiring Communities Inc EDUC 7137825606 707 Lehman St Houston TX 77018 Seth Malin Executive Director 7137825606 2024-11-13 1 0 Barbara Murphy P01386215 7134395739 2023 2024-10-15 13:58:12Z Seth Malin 707 Lehman St Houston TX 77018 1330352 0 X www.heartprogram.org X 2003 TX H.E.A.R.T creates opportunities for adults with disabilities to achieve their potential. 9 8 58 105 0 0 1301753 1049528 162488 248910 0 21277 91611 -4811 1555852 1314904 0 0 0 0 830451 884258 0 0 148636 681413 437706 1511864 1321964 43988 -7060 3531233 3202227 1288546 838907 2242687 2363320 X Educational Programs Inspiring Communities, Inc. (EPIC) seeks to promote structured independence in individuals with developmental disabilities by providing innovative education, training, housing and employment programs. 0 0 787784 203690 H.E.A.R.T. (Housing, Entrepreneurship and Readiness Training) Vending and Concessions is a vocational training program that focuses on food service, vending machines, concessions, catering, and customer service. The most unique aspect of this program is the on-the-job training component, where H.E.A.R.T. transports participants to job sites located throughout the region and provides supported employment to participants. Participants also receive hands-on instruction in job-related tasks such as counting money, labeling product, inventory, and other activities. These activities will be conducted in small groups and 1-on-1 as needed. Trainees, clients with intellectual disabilities, get paychecks of at least $8 per hour once they have been trained. 97869 45220 From June to August, H.E.A.R.T. offers the H.E.A.R.T. Summer Internship Program to youth with intellectual/developmental disabilities in two four-week sessions. Students are introduced to real-world job experience in vending, food service, and warehouse work based out of the Houston Food Bank facility. The curriculum also includes leadership and advocacy training. Students receive instruction on making choices, understanding their disability, learning varying types of effective communication (verbal, non-verbal and written), understanding laws and rights, working in teams, conflict resolution, and demonstrating leadership. Continued on Schedule O.In addition, students learn about making choices, and how each choice carries a consequence, either positive or negative. A key component of the curriculum is reminding students that their disability is just a small part of who they are, and an important piece of their "life puzzle." Similarly, that puzzle piece in no way defines in its entirety who they are or who they are meant to be. In the self-advocacy component, students are introduced to the rights they have and the laws that are set in place to protect them. Each lesson is taught through various mediums including videos and guest speakers. Lessons are interwoven and designed to help combat significant learning loss typically associated with the summer months that is even more prevalent in youths with disabilities. 52943 Through our partnership with CVS Health, EPIC offers a 10-week retail training program for adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities who are interested in working in a retail environment. The program is free for participants and offers the first "mock store" in the state of Texas. Trainees receive classroom instruction and hands-on training at the mock store before transitioning to an 80-hour externship at a local CVS. Upon completion of the program, participants are eligible for hire in a CVS store. From August to May, H.E.A.R.T. collaborates with Houston Independent School District (H.I.S.D.) in vocational training programs designed to address gaps in our special education system. This self-contained program provides classroom education and vocational training to better prepare graduating seniors to enter the workforce after graduation. H.I.S.D. transports, provides meals, and administers the required standard classroom education for the students while H.E.A.R.T. implements the job skills and employment training in food service, food supply chain operations, vending, and concessions, to help these students be "job-ready and give them work experience before they graduate. Learning how to prepare hot meals, chop fruits and vegetables, and operate a pallet jack and forklift are just a few of the activities that H.E.A.R.T. students learn every weekday through the program. This program gives students experience in a wide variety of environments without having to coordinate transportation to different places or have many different supervisors. 938596 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 1 58 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 X Seth Malin 7137825606 707 Lehman St Houston TX 77018 Jane Borochoff Chair 4.00 X X 11143 0 34055 Sakina Lanig Vice Chair 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Tanya B White Secretary 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Heather Morgan Treasurer 2.00 X X 0 0 0 Sue Davis Director 2.00 X 0 0 0 Tasmina Lakhani Director 2.00 X 0 0 0 Jessica Leone Director 2.00 X 0 0 0 Daphne Mikel Director 2.00 X 0 0 0 Gary Yeoman Director 2.00 X 0 0 0 Seth Malin Executive Director 40.00 X 92923 0 4754 104066 0 38809 0 0 0 0 0 90366 529829 429333 2837 1049528 Vending services 611600 139499 139499 Concession services 611600 64191 64191 Vocational training 611600 45220 45220 248910 21277 21277 10637 90366 15448 -4811 -4811 1314904 248910 0 16466 142875 43643 75215 24017 560951 452177 39857 68917 10004 7082 1606 1316 98861 72397 13781 12683 71567 50662 11488 9417 20000 20000 1902 278 1624 8640 6707 1933 31047 9616 18178 3253 50128 39429 8944 1755 6537 5951 519 67 51756 36635 8312 6809 77401 54792 12425 10184 50264 35581 8069 6614 Vending products 91114 89268 1542 304 Trainee payroll 35955 35955 Supplies 12962 5130 6465 1367 1321964 938596 234732 148636 1726341 332404 822967 184279 199734 47828 2177993 378699 1620613 1799294 3531233 3202227 30579 45189 1257967 793718 1288546 838907 X 2242687 2363320 2242687 2363320 3531233 3202227 -7060 127693 0 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 1473130 1186305 1702281 1383751 1049528 6794995 1473130 1186305 1702281 1383751 1049528 6794995 51020 6743975 1690 9611 21277 32578 2500 2500 6830073 789359 0.98740 0.83750 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10, Explanation of Other Income: Other income - 2019 Amount: $ 2,500. 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