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by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Aug 13, 2015 | Press Releases
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center was the beneficiary of 5% Day at Whole Foods Market in Manhasset on June 24. Whole Foods made a donation of more than $5,000 to support the many programs and services of the organization, the leading children’s mental health agency on Long Island.
Through Community Giving Days (otherwise known as 5% Days), Whole Foods Market supports the local causes that are important to their shoppers and neighbors. Five percent of one day’s net sales is donated to a local nonprofit or educational organization. North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center was the selected charity for the most recent Community Giving Day in Manhasset.
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by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Aug 12, 2015 | Press Releases
Every year, it is more fun and more and more exciting and so for the fifth year in a row, the theme of the Guidance Center’s annual gala will be Dancing With Our Stars. This year’s event will take place on November 6 at the Garden City Hotel.
This year’s line-up is incredible:
Honoree Sunny Hostin, Legal Analyst at CNN;Emcee Len Berman, Sports Announcer/Author; Live Auctioneer Bernadette Castro; and six of Long Island’s movers and shakers as the Dancing Stars: Frank Castagna, Castagna Realty;Charles Chan, Harvest International; Wayne Grossé, Bethpage Federal Credit Union; Jo-Ellen Hazan, Past President, the Guidance Center; Tracey Kupferberg, Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty; and Sandra Schoenbart, Sandra K., Inc. Sales/Marketing.
The evening’s co-chairs are Chris & Jack Bransfield and Andrea & Michael Leeds.
Guests will enjoy a wonderful evening of dinner and dancing to a live band, with a raffle, silent and live auctions. All proceeds will benefit the Guidance Center. To learn more about becoming a sponsor or an underwriter, placing a journal ad, or purchasing tickets, please visit www.northshorechildguidance.org/events/html, call 516 626-1971 ext. 337 or email: development@northshorchildguidance.org
by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Jul 22, 2015 | Press Releases
On Wednesday evening, July 15, the Business Advisory Council of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center hosted the second annual “Ladies Night Out at the Equinox.”
More than 65 women enjoyed a great night of spin, aerobics and yoga followed by a host of activities: blowouts, manicures, makeup tips and facials, plus a raffle and refreshments.
The Event raised $2,500 to support the many programs of the Guidance Center. The evening was also the kick-off for a donation drive for the Guidance Center’s Good Beginnings for Babies program, which works with pregnant and parenting teens to promote healthier pregnancies, healthier babies and happier relationships between parent and child.
“The event is a fun way to gather new friends and to create awareness of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center,” said Linda Ugenti, a member of the Guidance Center Board of Directors and Business Advisory Council. “Those who attended are asking us to continue our Ladies Night Out, and we are looking forward to making the event even bigger next year!”
Many thanks to the Guidance Center’s Business Advisory Council, Equinox of Roslyn, Lord & Taylor Manhasset, Wat Chu Wan Wonton, Princess Nails & Spa and Commiso Salon.
by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Jul 20, 2015 | Anton Media
By Andrew Malekoff
The church shootings of nine black parishioners in Charleston, SC, at the hands of 21-year old Dylann Roof, who has confessed to the crime, sends a sobering message to all those involved with adolescents. Although cries of “hate crime” ring out in this instance—and no doubt are true—we need to recognize that issues surrounding diversity and systemic racism are an issue for every teenager and young adult here on Long Island.
Those of us who have the privilege to work with youth in schools, community centers and other arenas face the unique challenge of helping them address diversity and racism openly and honestly. Although discussions about race during the last two presidential campaigns gave a number of people a chance to process their feelings, it doesn’t appear that we have come very far.
An open, nonjudgmental group experience can provide adolescents with a unique opportunity to explore the typically taboo areas of race and ethnicity, exposing deeply ingrained or loosely-formed beliefs and influencing their perceptions and behaviors in the world outside of the group.
When stories like the church shootings and the deaths of unarmed black citizens at the hands of the police dominate the media, young people’s tendency toward stereotyping and polarizing is too often reinforced. Within group settings, we can encourage discussion about ethnic identity, bias, prejudice and intergroup relations as a normal part of adolescent development. We can help young people to tune in to ethnically and racially-charged local, national and international events that affect them.
I vividly recall a meeting I had with a group of local teenagers in the immediate aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, CO. The group talked about their feelings regarding profiling and stepped-up security in schools and in the community. One group member, Carlos, recalled an incident when he was stopped by a police officer who asked to check his arms. “He was looking for gang tattoos. He thought I was MS-13,” Carlos explained as he slowly pulled his shirtsleeve back across his forearm, as if back in the moment. “I told the cop, ‘First of all, I’m Salvadorian and proud of it. Second, I’m not a gangbanger.’ ”
Carlos continued, “A week later, I saw the same cop at my restaurant job, where I work as a maître d’ and wear a tuxedo. He looked me over and seemed really confused. I smiled and said to him, ‘See, I’m the same person.’”
A healthy exchange of ideas and opinions about controversial subjects in a safe environment enables young people to test out their beliefs and attitudes, to practice listening to the views of others, to respectfully express differences and to discover common ground.
By advancing an understanding of differences, we can reach for commonalties experienced among young people across cultures to open pathways for relating among different ethnic groups.
Presently, we all face the sad possibility of seeing a dramatic erosion of empathy and loss of community as a result of the struggle for economic survival. We cannot afford to allow the development of empathy for others to slip away from our youth in the process. As adults, we must do all that we can to help young people confront the issues surrounding diversity openly, honestly and safely. Our survival and humanity depend upon it.
Andrew Malekoff is the executive director of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, which provides comprehensive mental health services for children from birth through 24 and their families. To find out more, visit www.northshorechildguidance.org.
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by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Jun 30, 2015 | Press Releases
On June 15, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center hosted the annual Jonathan Krevat Memorial Golf & Tennis Classic at The Creek in Locust Valley. The Event raised more than $230,000 to support the programs and services of the Guidance Center.
This year’s outstanding honorees were Steven Dubb of The Beechwood Organization and Michael Duffy of Duffy & Duffy PLLC. Jack Bransfield (Bethpage Federal Credit Union), Michael Mondiello (Joseph Gunnar & Co., LLC) and Michael Schnepper (Rivkin Radler LLP) co-chaired the event. Christopher Robbins of Robbins Wolfe Eventeurs served as the auctioneer.
Participants enjoyed a great day of golf and tennis followed by a steak & lobster dinner reception.
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center is the pre-eminent not-for-profit children’s mental health agency on Long Island, leading the way in diagnosis, treatment, prevention, training, parent education, research and advocacy.
The Guidance Center is dedicated to restoring and strengthening the emotional well-being of children (from birth – age 24) who are troubled, in trouble or causing trouble. Our highly qualified team of caring psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, drug and alcohol counselors, mental health counselors, vocational rehabilitation counselors and family advocates work with children and their families to address issues such as depression and anxiety; developmental delays; school refusal; bullying; sexual abuse; teen pregnancy; and family crises stemming from illness, death, trauma and divorce. We offer outpatient mental health counseling and teen drug abuse and prevention services.
For more than 60 years, the Guidance Center has been a place of hope and healing, providing innovative and compassionate treatment to all who enter our doors, regardless of their ability to pay.
For more information about the Guidance Center, please visit www.northshorechildguidance.org or call 516 626 1971 ext. 320.
