Family Residences to Provide AED Training to Disabled, Units to 130 as HeartSaver Communities

Old Bethpage, NY, September 27, 2011 – Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. (FREE) representing more than 3,000 Long Islanders with different abilities proudly announces its partnership with the Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation (LA12) to provide automated external defibrillator (AED) training to individuals living in approximately 130 homes throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties.  Residences with AED units will display a window sign as “HeartSaver” points for their surrounding neighborhood.

WHAT:           HeartSaver Open House AED Training Session                 

WHEN:           11:00 AM   Thursday, October 13, 2011

WHERE:         191 Bethpage-Sweet Hollow Road, Old Bethpage, NY 11804

WHO:                

  • Dr. Rich Timo, Director,  Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc.
  • Legislator Dennis Dunne, Sr.; Chair, Public Safety Committee, Nassau County
  • Sean Stuber, Self Advocate from FREE and Best Buddies New York Community Hero for 2012
  • Michael Cleary and Steve Tannenbaum, AED Survivors
  • HeartSaver Training Demonstration by Karen Acompora, Founder, Louis J. Acompora Memorial Foundation (Louis’ Law)
  • Differently Abled Individuals of the FREE Community

DIRECTIONS

From the west: Take the LIE East to Exit 48 Round Swamp Road, toward Old Bethpage.  Stay straight onto South Service Road.  Take the 1st right onto Round Swamp Road.  Turn left to stay on Round Swamp Road.  Turn left onto Spagnoli Road/Bethpage-Sweet Hollow Road (Spagnoli Road is 0.1 miles past Hay Path Road.  If you reach Fairway Drive you’ve gone about 0.1 miles too far.)  Continue to FREE, 191 Bethpage-Sweet Hollow Road on the right.  (If you are on Spagnoli Road and reach Hub Drive you’ve gone about 0.2 miles too far.)

From the east: Take the LIE west to Exit 49 Route 110 South (Broadhollow Road).  Turn right onto Spagnoli Road (Hilton-Long Island is on the right).  Continue to FREE, 191 Bethpage-Sweet Hollow Road on the left.  (FREE is located 0.2 miles past Hub Drive.  If you reach Winding Road you’ve gone a little too far.)

About Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. (FREE)


FREE, founded in 1977 and headquartered in Old Bethpage, benefits more than 3,000 individuals with different abilities or behavioral health needs or traumatic brain injury and their families each year on Long Island. Its mission is to help individuals of all abilities to realize their full potential and prevail over life’s challenges. FREE’s broad spectrum of services encourages individuals to share their gifts and talents as contributing members of the community. For more information, please call 516-870-1622 or visit www.familyres.org

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