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As we close out the year, we want to reflect on one important thing. In a year full of uncertainty, one thing remained steady: you showed up.
Because of your support, participants in IAHD’s Day Habilitation Without Walls program enjoyed monthly visits to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, more than 230 individuals practiced mindfulness through weekly yoga classes, and—through the joy of music—an IAHD choir was formed and performed its first public concert.
These moments may not make headlines, but they shape lives. They happened because our community chose to invest in our neighbors.
Our first-ever 2025 IAHD Impact Report highlights what your generosity made possible this year.
👉 Read the Impact Report and see your impact in action.
As the year comes to a close, please know this: your support helped people feel seen, supported, and hopeful about what comes next. Thank you for being part of the IAHD community.
With Gratitude,
Omayra Andino, IAHD CEO
🎨 Individuals from Bainbridge and Day Hab Without Walls (DHWW) spent another day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art– this time for the holidays! They visited the museum’s beautifully decorated Christmas tree, which served as inspiration as they worked on their Christmas tree prints, their art project of the day.
💚 On Christmas Day, Richard, who lives in IAHD’s Burke IRA, reunited with his mother and brother after losing contact for years. This visit was emotional and filled with the love shared among Richard, his brother, and their mother, Maria.
🔔 This year, IAHD held its annual holiday sing along at Bainbridge! Check out the sing along compilation video below or on our YouTube page, as well as the gallery of festive faces who attended.
🐧 Individuals at St. Mary’s made some holiday and winter paint prints with stencils and roller brushes. Naya even made herself a Christmas tree t-shirt!
☃️ Throughout December, both individuals and staff at all three day programs made their own light-up snow globes, which they eventually got to take home or gift to a loved one.
🎄Bainbridge, St. Mary’s, and Tarrytown day programs saw green when the Grinch stopped by with some of their light-hearted shenanigans!
🎁 For the second year in a row, the IAHD Champions participated in USPS Operation Santa, where they chose letters written by individuals or families and fulfilled as much of their wish list as possible! The group then wrapped the presents so they were ready to be boxed up and shipped out to the sibling pair they decided to ‘adopt’.
🍪 The IAHD Cabinet hosted lunches for the staff at all three day programs.
While they didn’t look exactly like Richie in the photo on the right, the Cabinet also delivered cookies, made by Sleepy Coffee Too, for the staff at our residences as a small token of appreciation this holiday season.
🎅 Santa took time out of his very busy schedule to make brief stops at both Bainbridge and Tarrytown programs. Thank you to the Harrison Police Department for generously providing individuals at Tarrytown with some early Christmas gifts!
🌟 The week before Christmas, everyone at our day programs showed off their ugliest holiday sweaters on one day and their coziest pajamas on the next!
🎀 Both Bainbridge and St. Mary’s made gingerbread houses, either individually or in a small group. You can see in the photos below that Bainbridge actually turned all their houses into a gingerbread village!
❄️ Each of our residences had their own special ways to celebrate the holidays, some of which you can see in the galleries below!
We hope everyone had a great holiday season, and we can’t wait for what 2026 holds for the IAHD community!