In The Media


The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation Gives $10,000 Grant to Guidance Center
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, Long Island’s leading not-for-profit children’s mental health center, is honored to announce that The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation has donated $10,000 towards supporting the Children’s Center at Nassau County Family Court. The Children’s Center at Nassau Family Court is a program of North...
Give Yourself – and Your Kids – a Break
LIBN Column April 15, 2020, By Jenna Kern-Rugile Rumor has it that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague. So, how’s working at home during our modern day plague going for you? Social media and other sources are replete with articles about how you can use your...
Checking the Coronavirus Box Score, Published in Blank Slate Media, By Andrew Malekoff
As a child growing up in New Jersey in the 1950's and 60's, one of my favorite things to do when school let out for the year was to get up, ride my bike to the candy store, meet up with friends, pick up a newspaper and check out the baseball box scores from the...
A Quarantine Trendsetter, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, April 13, 2020
In my February column, I wrote about the fact that I had a stem cell transplant in early December 2019, about a month before I heard for the first time about the coronavirus. The transplant entailed getting an unrelated donor’s stem cells to replace mine; then, if all...
Strength In Diversity, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, February 16, 2020
In my August 2019 column titled “Thank You,” I expressed my gratitude for the cancer researchers and practitioners who have been instrumental in getting me through the last 10 years of my life. As I explained, my cancer was responsive to treatment, but it was...
Coronavirus News: Families turning to virtual therapy for kids during COVID-19 crisis By Stacey Sager Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Please click the photo to watch the WABC interview and video. LONG ISLAND (WABC) -- Kids aren't out on the playgrounds, and they aren't inside their schools as a result of COVID-19.Several weeks into this pandemic, some families may be settling into this new norm --...
Guidance Center Responds to Coronavirus Crisis, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, April 22, 2020
As the Coronavirus pandemic has come to dominate a good deal of our daily lives, are we, as Dr. Suzan Song suggests in U.S. News and World Report, “on the brink of a mental health pandemic that our current system is not equipped to handle?” Recent polling by the...
The Nonprofit Scramble, Long Island Business News, April 17, 2020
One of COVID-19’s worst complications for nonprofits is the decimated events calendar. Galas and luncheons – nonprofits’ biggest fundraising vehicles – simply don’t exist in the age of social distancing. Take North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center in Roslyn...
Helping Kids Cope During the Pandemic
Do you feel like your world has been turned upside down? The COVID-19 pandemic is creating an escalation in anxiety, fear and depression for the entire population, both young and old. It’s a traumatic experience for everyone, regardless of whether they were...
“The Weather Channel and COVID-19,” by Andrew Malekoff, Blank Slate Media
One of my favorite phone apps is the Weather Channel. I check it every day, sometimes several times a day, to track the temperature, wind and precipitation in my zip code. If I want to, I can search any zip code anywhere. It helps me to prepare for when I plan to walk...
Dealing with the Stress of the Corona Outbreak and Quarantine
Featuring Elissa Smilowitz, WCWP radio, March 24, 2020 This show is a joint effort of Richard Solomon, Esq., WCWP 88.1FM, the Nassau County Bar Association, and the North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center to help all of us who are currently "sheltering in...