🎲✨ Join us for the 14th Annual Ed Asner & Friends Celebrity Poker Night on August 15th at Radford Studio Center! Enjoy an unforgettable evening of poker, great food, live entertainment, and the chance to rub elbows with celebrities, entertainers, and industry leaders—all while supporting the life-changing programs of The Ed Asner Family Center. We’re proud to honor the incredible Ron Funches and thrilled to welcome back Pink’s Hot Dogs. Every ticket helps support employment training, mental health services, arts programs, and social opportunities for neurodivergent individuals and their families. Seats are limited, so don’t wait! 🎟️ Get your tickets today: pokerfored.com #PokerNight #EdAsnerFamilyCenter #RonFunches #CelebrityPoker #Neurodiversity #PinksHotDogs

At The Ed Asner Family Center, we celebrate the beauty of diversity, the power of inclusion, and the importance of creating a world where everyone feels seen, valued, and loved. This Pride Month, we proudly stand with our community and reaffirm our commitment to fostering acceptance, understanding, and belonging for all. Together, we can build communities where every individual is empowered to be their authentic self. Because love is love, and everyone deserves to be celebrated. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

⚾️ Sunday fun at the ballpark! Our Academy students had an amazing time spending Sunday at the game, cheering on the Los Angeles Dodgers, making memories, and enjoying a day filled with laughter, friendship, and community. Experiences like these help create meaningful connections and opportunities for our students to learn, grow, and have fun together.

Yesterday’s Voice Over class was one of those Academy moments we know we’ll remember for a very long time. Between the laughter, creativity, questions, and conversations, the room felt so full of joy and confidence. Thank you, Ellie Kemper, for spending time with our participants and making everyone feel so welcomed, encouraged, and celebrated. We absolutely loved having you at TEAFC 💙🧡

Throwback! Before she became a global superstar, a young fan snapped this photo with our beloved Ed Asner. Can you guess who it is? Hint: she went on to become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars ⭐️ Photo courtesy of Kazemba Adjuba

We had the honor of welcoming the incredible Rob Paulsen to our Voiceover Class at the Ed Asner Family Center! 🎙️✨ Rob shared his talent, experience, and encouragement with our community, making it such a special and inspiring day for our students. We’re so grateful for his time, energy, and support of the arts and neurodiverse voices. 💛 #EdAsnerFamilyCenter #Voiceover #RobPaulsen #AutismAcceptance #MediaArts #Inclusion

A day full of community, connection, and celebration, complete with tacos, churros, and plenty of lotería 🌮🎉 We loved seeing everyone come together and enjoy the moment.

Thank you to our amazing sponsors for allowing us to pamper our moms of special needs children yesterday Thank You MA’s Italian Kitchen Sacred Rituel And Vienna Pastry Navah Asner

This week on The Brady Bunch of Autism, we share a raw childhood story about hidden struggles, quiet shame, and the life-changing power of being truly understood. Don’t miss it! stream it tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts.

💛 Tomorrow is the day! ✨ Shop. Give. Make an impact. ✨ Join us at our Kendra Scott Giveback Event—where your purchase does more than shine, it changes lives. Your support fuels programs at The Ed Asner Family Center, helping neurodivergent individuals build job skills, life skills, wellness, and creative expression through media & the arts. 📍 Westfield Topanga or online with code ⏰ 2:30–4:30 PM 🛍 Use code: GIVEBACK-LOPXB 💙 Bring a friend 💙 Shop with purpose 💙 Be part of something bigger One afternoon. Real impact.

Join us for a special Giveback Event with Kendra Scott and support individuals with special needs and their families! 🗓 Saturday, May 2, 2026 ⏰ 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM 📍 Kendra Scott – Westfield Topanga ✨ 20% of all sales during the event will go directly to the Ed Asner Family Center, helping us continue our mission of supporting neurodiverse individuals and their families. Can’t make it in person? You can still give back! 🛍 Shop online and use code: GIVEBACK-LOPXB Your support truly makes a difference. We hope to see you there! 💛

Happy Earth Day 🌍🌿 Today felt especially meaningful as our Academy participants spent time out in nature, slowing down, observing, and capturing the details that make our environment so special 📸 From light hitting the trees to textures on the ground, it was all about being present with the world around us. We’re now bringing that experience back into the classroom through our collage work using thrifted books 📚♻️ In honor of Earth Day, we’re not only finding inspiration in nature, but also reusing materials to create something new, giving old pages a second life through art. A reminder that creativity and care for our planet can go hand in hand 💛

Spring semester is officially underway at The Academy 🌷✨ We kicked things off with speed friending to welcome our new participants, launched our new job partnership with the Wildlife Learning Center, and jumped right back into core classes like Interview Readiness and Spanish. We wrapped up the week with carrot spice bread in cooking, egg decorating, and some karaoke moments we won’t forget 🎤🥕🥚 And that’s only a glimpse,we’re just getting started. From original songwriting and music production to creative writing and beyond, we can’t wait to see what this semester brings 💫 For more information on the Academy Contact Navah @teafc.org

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!! From Navah and Matt Asner and the whole TEAFC team!

Today we recognize Autism Acceptance Day, a moment to pause, reflect, and recommit to building a world where every neurodivergent individual is truly seen, valued, and celebrated. At The Ed Asner Family Center, acceptance is at the heart of everything we do. It’s in the confidence our participants build each day, the friendships they form, and the creative voices they discover through art, music, and community. We don’t just talk about inclusion, we live it. That commitment extends to employment and leadership. We actively hire autistic individuals and believe deeply in creating meaningful, supportive job opportunities. Many of our programs are not only designed with neurodivergent voices in mind, they are created and led by autistic individuals whose lived experience shapes everything we offer. Their insight, creativity, and leadership make our community stronger. Autism acceptance means moving beyond awareness and into action. It means creating opportunities, fostering understanding, and embracing the unique strengths that each individual brings to the world. Today, and every day, we celebrate our incredible community, our participants, families, staff, and supporters, who remind us that acceptance isn’t just important, it’s transformative. 💙 Let’s continue to listen, learn, and lead with compassion. #AutismAcceptance #Neurodiversity #InclusionMatters #EdAsnerFamilyCenter

Happy Passover! May this Passover bring peace, happiness, and renewal to you and your loved ones. To all who celebrate, we wish you a joyful and meaningful Chag Pesach Sameach. With love, Navah and Matt Asner and the entire Ed Asner Family Center Team

A wonderful Q and A session from our 2020 performance of It's A Wonderful Life, performed live on Zoom in December 2021. The cast included Host Tom Bergeron, PETE DAVIDSON, ELLIE KEMPER, MAUDE APATOW, ED ASNER, VANESSA WILLIAMS, CHRIS WILLIAMS, BILL PULLMAN, CAROL KANE, Ed Begley Jr., BD WONG, DIEDRICH BADER, RICHARD KIND, MIA FARROW, HANNAH SCHINDLER, SPENCER HARTE, ATTICUS BALDWIN, CHRIS TENNEY, JAKE TAHASHIAN, CHELSEA DARNELL youtu.be/BaQq9tz6sxQ?si=Z5gS…

This is what confidence looks like… and it didn’t come easy. It was built over time through the vision of our founder Navah Asner With support, trust, setbacks, breakthroughs, and people who truly see you. Watching our very first Academy graduates step into themselves They know their worth. They feel it. And that changes everything.

Happy World Down Syndrome Day 3/21 💛💙💛💙💛💙💛 Today and EVERY DAY we celebrate the community and our friends !!