by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Dec 20, 2014 | Press Releases
The Dammann Fund, Inc. has awarded North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center with a grant of $10,000 to support its Good Beginnings for Babies (GBB) program, a service that operates out of the Guidance Center’s Leeds Place in Westbury and offers support for pregnant and parenting teens.
According to Guidance Center CEO Andrew Malekoff, “GBB promotes the healthy development of children by ensuring access to prenatal care and promoting preventive care for parents and their children. We aim to help the moms reach full-term pregnancies, deliver healthy birth weight babies and build strong attachments with their newborns. Good attachments are the cornerstone of healthy emotional development.”
GBB Program Director, Dr. Nellie Taylor-Walthrust added, “In GBB we work with families to develop and promote a community of support. The goal is to reduce isolation of young parents in the early years of their child’s development and increase the community’s sense of responsibility for young families, by building a community of young parents who support one other.” Dr. Taylor-Walthrust added, “We also carefully screen for maternal depression and other perinatal mood disorders and provide treatment or referrals for mental health care, as indicated.”
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 multi-cultural and bi-lingual 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.
To learn more about the Guidance Center, visit our website: www.northshorechildguidance.org or call 516 626 1971.
by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Dec 10, 2014 | In The Media
Albany Times Union
Now we learn that Adam Lanza did not get the help that was needed and that might have prevented his murderous rampage (“Chances to help were lost as killer evolved,” Nov. 23).
Think about it: After the Sandy Hook shootings, there was not one parent who was able to escape the tyranny of imagining his or her child being murdered in the neighborhood school. How many more children will be taken from us before lawmakers devote the same energy and resources it takes to launch their re-election campaigns to safeguarding our children?
New York state has ensured easy access to mental health care for Medicaid recipients and neglected the needs of underinsured middle-class families.
The gun lobby is formidable and well-heeled. Children, on the other hand, don’t have a voice until they are in the ground. Children are killed, grieving parents become tireless advocates and laws are passed in their children’s names. Timothy’s Law (mental health parity), Megan’s Law (making information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders) and Katie’s Law (making aggravated vehicular homicide a crime) come to mind.
We need our lawmakers, elected and appointed officials, to wake up. Our children are suffering and dying; families are struggling and desperate. Our leaders can support the constitutional right to bear arms while taking steps to prevent gun violence and providing adequate funding for community-based mental health centers to support the emotional well-being of all of our children.
Andrew Malekoff
Long Beach
Executive Director, North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, Roslyn Heights
by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Dec 10, 2014 | Press Releases
The Nassau County Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health, Chemical Dependency and Developmental Disabilities Services, has selected Andrew Malekoff, North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center CEO, as their 2014 Outstanding Provider of the Year in Delivering Integrated Care to Families. He will receive the award at the 5th Annual Conference on Co-Occurring Disorders on December 12, 2014 at Hofstra University, Uniondale, NY during the opening remarks beginning at 9:00 A.M.
Regarding the honor Malekoff stated, “I am grateful to the Nassau County Department of Human Services for honoring me. It is particularly meaningful to be recognized just days before the second anniversary of the December 14th tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. After the Newtown shootings there was not one parent in the United States who was able to escape the tyranny of imagining their child being murdered in their neighborhood school. Being honored reminds me about how much more needs to be done. How many more children will be taken from us before lawmakers devote the same energy and resources it takes to launch their re-election campaigns, to safeguarding our children, by taking steps to prevent gun violence andprovide adequate funding for community-based mental health centers to support the emotional well-being of all of our children?”
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 multi-cultural and bi-lingual 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.
To learn more about the Guidance Center, visit our website: www.northshorechildguidance.org or call 516 626 1971.
by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Dec 4, 2014 | In The Media
Immediately after the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings in Newtown, Conn., mental health experts offered tips to speechless parents about how to soothe their children [“Report: Sandy Hook killer enabled,” News, Nov. 22]. The advice sounded like this: Be available emotionally, be compassionate, limit media exposure, reassure safety, offer distractions to prevent obsessive worry, monitor for angry outbursts and depression and, if symptoms persist, seek professional help.
I imagine many parents were thinking, instead, “It’s a cruel world, evil is everywhere, watch your back, and don’t trust anyone.”
After the Sandy Hook shootings there was probably not one parent in the United States able to escape the tyranny of imagining his or her child being killed in a neighborhood school. How many more children will be taken before lawmakers devote energy and resources to safeguarding our children?
Take steps to prevent gun violence — within the constitutional right to bear arms — and provide adequate funding for community-based mental health centers for the emotional well-being of all of our children.
Andrew Malekoff
Editor’s note: The writer is the executive director for the nonprofit North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center in Roslyn Heights.
Link to Newsday letter
by North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center | Dec 2, 2014 | In The Media
In Remembrance of Gerry Leeds (1922-2014), a champion for vulnerable children and youth and a great friend to North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center.
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