| About Us
In 2007, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center celebrated 54 years of service to the Long Island community. In the beginning there were the parents, a group of visionary mothers and fathers who decided that there needed to be a place where children and families could get help when it was needed. These parents knew that the priority of suburban life was raising healthy children. Many realized that there were very few programs available for families in crisis - families dealing with troubled children and dysfunctional behaviors. In August of 1953 the North Shore Child Guidance Association was officially incorporated and the rest, as they say, is history - our history. For more than half a century, the Center has carried out the mission of those founders. It is the leading children's mental health agency in Nassau County. Our early childhood assessments and mental health evaluations for children and youth account for a high percentage of all of the cases seen in Nassau County. Another important new initiative deals with the diagnosis and treatment of maternal depression. In addition, no one is ever turned away because of an inability to pay. As a Nassau County "First Response" site, the Center has responded to many of the recent traumatic events of the last half century. Sending teams of crisis workers to respond to the Avianca Plane Crash, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, the Lynbrook church murders, as well as the terrible events of September 11th, the Center was the subject of an hour-long ABC Television documentary hosted by Barbara Walters on the first anniversary of 9/11. Along with it's central headquarters and Bereavement & Trauma Center located on the campus of its Roslyn Heights site, the Center also has facilities in Westbury, the Leeds Place - Serving Young People; and in Manhasset, the Marks Family Right from the Start 0-3+ Center. |
| Phone: (516) 626-1971 • Fax: (516) 626-8043 |