In The Media

Younger students are developmentally behind, educators say, and they’re blaming the pandemic

By Craig Schneider, Published in Newsday, August 20, 2024 Roosevelt kindergarten teacher Margarita Acevedo said she'll be starting the new school year with excitement, anticipation — and concern. The teacher said that since children returned from the pandemic in fall 2021, some have lacked basic abilities, including how to handle pencils and...

LI Herald Editorial: Congress Should Support Maternal Health Grants, Feb 3, 2022

Featuring Dr. Nellie Taylor-Walthrust and the Birth Justice Warriors, a program co-founded by Taylor-Walthrust and Martine Hackett of Hofstra University. In Nassau County, babies in communities of color are significantly more likely to die during or shortly after...

Ask the Child Guidance Experts

Is it more than the winter blues? In this monthly column, therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center answer your questions on issues related to parenting, mental health and children’s well-being. To submit a question, email...

Gillibrand Seeks Funds to Reduce Deaths among Pregnant Women

By Robert Brodsky, Newsday, January 24, 2022 Black women in Nassau County and across the country are facing a "mortality crisis" that has left women of color three times more likely to die during labor or in the first year after giving birth compared to white women,...

When Parents Have No Place to Turn

By Paul Danilack, Published in Anton Media, January 20, 2022 Growing up, Timmy appeared to be a little bit different than other children his age. He would cry often and have frequent temper tantrums. His parents brought him to see an early intervention therapist, and...

Finding Strength in the Family Ecosystem, Withum’s Civic Warriors Podcast, December 23,2021

Featuring North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center’s Kathy Rivera, Executive Director/CEO, and Elissa Smilowitz, Director of Triage, Emergency and Suicide Prevention Services. Civic Warriors Episode 29 with North Shore Child & Family Guidance...

These Long Islanders go over-the-top on indoor holiday décor, and admit it, Published in Newsday, December 20, 2021

Decorating for the holidays is a national pastime and a drive around Long Island this time of year is a brilliantly lit eyeful. But what goes on outside homes — the lights, the sleighs, the reindeer — sometimes pales compared to holiday decorating inside. It’s...

The Pandemic’s Unsung Heroes, By Bruce Kaufstein

All of us - no matter where we live, where we work or whether we consider ourselves left or right or somewhere in the middle – share at least one thing: We are eternally grateful for the dedication of the doctors, nurses, EMTs and other frontline responders who have...

Helene Fortunoff, retail jewelry trailblazer, dies at 88

Newsday, By Tory N. Parrish, November 9, 2021 Helene Fortunoff believed in the value of hard work, at any age. In the 1950s, the retail trailblazer established the fine jewelry division in what was then a small group of Brooklyn housewares and home furnishings stores...

Retail jewelry trailblazer Helene Fortunoff dies at 88

Long Island Business News, By: David Winzelberg November 9, 2021 Helene Fortunoff, one of the country’s most successful jewelry retailers and matriarch of the Fortunoff family, died in Miami Beach Monday from a non-COVID respiratory illness. She was 88. Fortunoff was...

Tiempo, Channel 7 TV, Featuring Regina Barros-Rivera and Erika Perez-Tobon on our Latina Girls Project

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