In The Media
Making a Splash at The Guidance Center
Published in Blank Slate Media on January 24th, 2024 The walls of North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center look a lot brighter thanks to the wonderful murals donated by Splashes of Hope. The nonprofit organization, dedicated to transforming environments “from clinical to colorful,” paid a visit to The Leed’s Place — Serving Young...
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...
What Simone Biles Has Taught Us
Published originally in Anton Media, Parenting Plus column, August 20 2021, By Kathy Rivera After working in the mental health field for more than two decades, it should have come as no shock to me when I read some of the negative responses to Simone Biles’...
The Ultimate Loss: A Family’s Story Of Addiction In The Age Of Killer Drugs
Last month, family and friends of Jason Witler, a 2011 graduate of Syosset High School, gathered at the high school baseball field to celebrate the life of a young man who died this past April from an accidental overdose of a drug laced with fentanyl. The event, the...
Jaspan Schlesinger Presents Guidance Center with Heart of the Community Award, July 2021
Since 1953, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center has been the leading community-based not-for- profit specialty children’s mental health organization on Long Island. Their staff is specially trained in working with children and teens (from birth to age 24)...
Providing a Safe Space for LGBTQ+ Teens, Originally published in Anton Media Newspapers Parenting Plus column, July 21, 2021
By Elissa Smilowitz Recently, I spoke with a mother who was navigating an issue that has become increasingly common for many families here on Long Island and across the nation. Her 12-year-old daughter told her that she thinks she may be a lesbian, but that she’s...
Guidance Center Launches New Suicide Prevention Program, Spring 2021
It is a phone call the staff at North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center gets all too often: A parent is in despair, saying their son or daughter is experiencing severe depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide. And the situation has worsened due to the...
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