In The Media
Michael Schnepper Joins Guidance Center Board, Long Island Business News, July 29, 2022
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, the preeminent not-for-profit children’s mental health agency on Long Island, is pleased to announce that Michael Schnepper has joined its Board of Directors. Schnepper, a Partner in Rivkin Radler’s Commercial Litigation, Insurance Coverage and Insurance Fraud Practice Groups, is a longtime...
Andrew Malekoff Honored As Outstanding Behavioral Health Provider Of The Year
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...
More focus, money for mental health
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,...
In Remembrance of Gerry Leeds (1922-2014)
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. Slide Show
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center awarded $170,000 grant by the van Ameringen Foundation
North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center has received a two-year grant award of $170,000 from the van Ameringen Foundation to support the organization’s outpatient mental health program. According to Andrew Malekoff, CEO of North Shore Child and Family Guidance...
New VAP funding skirts the issue of universal access
New York Nonprofit Press By Andrew Malekoff, Executive Director Recently, I participated in a New York State Office of Mental Health Clinic Vital Access Provider (VAP) webinar. The webinar is a first step towards Article 31 mental health clinics applying for funding...
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center Hosts 2014 Gala honoring Executive Director/CEO Andrew Malekoff
On November 1, the Guidance Center hosted its annual gala, Dancing With Our Stars 2014, at the Garden City Hotel. With 240 in attendance, the event raised more than $320,000. The honoree for the night was Andy Malekoff, Executive Director/CEO, who began working at the...
Guidance Center’s Latina Girls Project Featured in National Publication
Friday, November 14, 2014 “Five years ago, a 12-year-old Latina girl committed suicide in her family’s garage in the town of Westbury, NY, a diverse suburb on Long Island that has pockets of poverty and has seen an influx of immigration from Central and South American...
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Hosts Forum on Newly Arrived Central American Children
On October 28, 2014, The Leeds Place of North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center hosted a dynamic forum entitled: “Newly-Arrived Central American Children: A Presentation on the Role of U.S. Policy on Immigration.” Guest speaker Érika Patricia Guerra Escalante who...
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center – Past Presidents Unite
North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center hosted a reception on October 8 to celebrate the Campaign for the Next Generation and the rededication of the Lucille S. and Martin E. Kantor Bereavement & Trauma Center. The Guidance Center completed the first stage...
Race discussions enhance schooling
Reading Ruben Navarrette Jr.'s essay, "The boundaries of immigrant identity" [Opinion, Aug. 17], brings to mind the emotional impact, on young people, of the never-ending stream of events with racial and ethnic overtones -- for example, war, terrorism, bias crimes and...
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