North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, the leading non-profit children's mental health agency on Long Island, has received a grant of $15,000 from Newsday Charities, a fund of the McCormick Foundation, for general operating support for its Westbury clinic, The Leeds Place - Serving Young People.

The Leeds Place provides mental health and chemical dependency services as well as prevention services. The majority of clients are youth and families representing the multi-cultural low income communities of New Cassel/Westbury, Uniondale and Hempstead.

North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center Guidance Center is dedicated to strengthening the emotional well-being of children and families, and leads the way in diagnosis, treatment, prevention, training, parent education, and advocacy.

The Guidance Center helps families to raise healthy children and work with kids (ages 0-24) who are troubled, in trouble, or causing trouble and parents who need help in these stressful times. Difficulties range from depression and anxiety, developmental delays and school failure, and substance abuse to family crises stemming from illness, death, trauma, and divorce.

In addition to providing thousands of client contacts per year through our core services, the Guidance Center offers training for parents, caregivers, student interns and professionals and advocates in public and governmental forums for improved mental health services for children.

To learn more about North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, please call
516 626-1971 or visit our website at www.northshorechildguidance.org