North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center was the beneficiary of the Port Washington Yacht Club’s Bi-Annual Ladies Luncheon and Dinner held on December 4, resulting in a donation of more than $15,000 to the Guidance Center.
Jackie Weigand, the ladies event committee and the members and guests of Port Washington Yacht Club, selected the Guidance Center as this year’s charity in appreciation of the outstanding programs and services that the Center provides to the children and families of our local communities.
The Port Washington Yacht Club was founded in the spring of 1905 as “The Port Washington Club.” The purpose of the club was stated as being to encourage social and athletic activities for people of the Port Washington peninsula. Through the years the Port Washington Yacht Club has prospered and broadened its membership and activities to a point that would have amazed its founders. The total membership now totals over 390, with significant participation in all traditional yacht club activities.
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center is the pre-eminent children’s mental health agency on Long Island. The 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 works 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, from substance abuse to family crises stemming from illness, death, trauma, and divorce. We offer outpatient mental health counseling and teen drug abuse and prevention services.
Our highly-qualified staff consists of teams of caring psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, drug & alcohol counselors, mental health counselors, and family advocates, with expertise in working with children.
For more information about the Guidance Center, please email: development@northshorechildguidance.org or visit: www.northshorechildguidance.org.
