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Helping Your Child Through Unemployment
By Kathy Rivera Transitioning from school to the job hunt is a daunting yet pivotal phase in the life of every young adult. As your child embarks upon this important journey, they may feel a mixture of excitement, fear, and worry, and not without reason. Job seekers today face more uncertainty than ever, with the latest unemployment rate for...
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
The Guidance Center: Annual Pupil Personnel Meeting
North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center hosted the annual pupil personnel webinar for teachers, administrators, social workers and school phycologists. The program addressed the social, emotional, developmental and academic health of children in our community....
Guidance Center Experts on the Transition to High School: Port Washington School Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqDZ4tEPdc The Port Washington School District hosted therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center in a webinar for parents and teens on transitioning from middle school to high school. The program offers great advice...
Kathy Rivera appears on radio show The Nonprofit Voice
Click link below to listen to the interview. https://soundcloud.com/jvcbroadcasting/npv-10-2-north-shore-child-and-family-guidance-center
Ask the Guidance Center Experts
In the September 2021 column that ran in Blank Slate Media, our staff responds to parents’ concerns that their son may be suicidal. In this monthly column, therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center answer your questions on issues related to...
Parenting, the Second Time Around
By Beth Whitehouse, Newsday, September 7, 2021 When COVID-19 took the life of 36-year-old Krystal Colman in April, Christina Colman, 60, of Coram, inherited a precious gift: her grandson Kacen, 2. Colman was hospitalized with the coronavirus at the same time as...
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