Our Mission
Provide direct financial, material, and educational support to individuals affected by congenital heart disease and their families, including children, adults, and transplant patients.
WHY SHF?
Why we started. Why we’re different. Why it matters.
Stronger Hearts Foundation was born out of firsthand experience – not theory, not distance, but lived reality. When our son was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), we became one of the many families suddenly thrust into the world of emergencies,surgeries, and long hospital stays.
What we found was a system that could heal a heart, but not always support the family holding it together. Hotels were expensive. Resources were scattered. Nights were unknown. While there are organizations built to help house families for free, most of them remain waitlisted – leaving families with the need to find housing until they can receive a room.
That’s why we created Stronger Hearts Foundation.
The SPark.
The Difference
We don’t just know what it’s like – we lived it. We have a deep, emotional understanding of what families actually need during critical moments: support that’s immediate, personal, and practical. We know what it’s like to wait 3 days, a week, 2 weeks to get into housing programs. We also understand that for families with a child undergoing emergency cardiac care – waiting isn’t an option.
Because a healed heart is only the beginning. Families facing congenital heart disease need strength to endure the long road that comes after surgery – the recovery, the fear, the chaos. SHF exists to make sure families don’t walk it alone. When support shows up in the hardest moment, it doesn’t just help – it changes everything.