To make this a reality the Foundation focuses on three areas of programming
Clinical Services * Education * Music 

FHSR Clinical Programming: FHSR directly funds these key support positions at The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago:
The Hart Family Cochlear Implant Education Coordinator, Bilingual Social Workers and the Loaner Hearing Aid Bank.

FHSR Education Programming: FHSR partners with the Chicago Hearing Society through their CHOICES program to fund the expansion of the READ literacy program and DEAR Day throughout Central and Southern Illinois.
In 2020 the Foundation will be launching an on-line early childhood CI and hearing aid tool-kit which will assist families and educators to support and place these children on the path toward academic success.

FHSR Music Programming: To commemorate the Foundation’s 60^th anniversary 2018 the Music to My Ears Program was created.  In 2019 the first early childhood music scholarships were awarded to deaf/ hard of hearing children ages’ birth to 4 years, in partnership with the Merit School of Music and Old Town School of Folk Music of Chicago.
2020 brings the expansion of this successful programming into individual instrument lessons for children 4 years and older. In addition, the Foundation continues its commitment to bringing music into the lives of children living with hearing loss with the introduction of classroom and after school programming at Child’s Voice Oral Deaf School and Trinity School for the Deaf.

FHSR strives to assure that children and young adults with hearing loss have the opportunity to develop to their full potential, enjoy the same social, educational and economic opportunities as their peers, and lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We accomplish this important purpose by identifying and then raising the funds to support the most innovative clinical services, programming and educational training programs in the Midwest.