In The Media
Suicide Prevention for Parents: Know the Signs
Published in Newsday, September 12, 2022, Guest Essay By Kathy Rivera I’ve been a social worker my entire adult life. I grew up in a household and a culture where talking about mental health was not allowed and mental wellbeing was not acknowledged or supported. The stigma was strong, but it only made me more determined to shed light on these...
August 2014 – Guidelines Newsletter
Guidelines is the bi-annual newsletter of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center. Click here for Guidelines
On the Passing of Robin Williams
Robin Williams’ suicide has become a prelude to a brief and intense opening in our collective consciousness about the torment of depression and addiction. As this moment in time dissipates, and it will, please know that these are the issues that North Shore Child and...
State Plan Short-Shrifts Children
NEWSDAY - July 21, 2014 by ANDREW MALEKOFF New York State has launched a three-year plan it says will transform the public mental health system. It intends to shift emphasis from costly long-term inpatient treatment to a community-based network of "regional centers of...
May 21st Declared a Special Day of Recognition for the Guidance Center
May 21, 2014 was declared a Day of Special Recognition through the Town of North Hempstead for North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center.
$94 Million in OT or Universal Access to Mental Health Care?
For three decades New York State has been systematically marginalizing middle class and working poor families who have children with serious mental health problems. This is a truth that the public is unaware of unless you have a child who is refusing to go to school,...
Our Kids’ Mental Issues Are Shortchanged
Anton News, Long Island; Opinion – Andrew Malekoff March 26 – April 1, 2014 The American reality today is 1 out of 10 children has a serious emotional disturbance and more children suffer from psychiatric illness than from autism, leukemia, diabetes and AIDS combined....
NYS mental health overhaul is mediocre; marginalizes middle class and working poor children – Andrew Malekoff
Newsday Article Link Since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, society has been discussing mental health, specifically eradicating stigma and ensuring ready access to quality community-based care ["Newtown's mental health needs," News, March 17]....
Opinion: Veto of bill hurts efforts to treat depression
Newsday Article Link Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made a grave error by vetoing Assembly Bill 7667-B, which would have directed state officials to develop a maternal-depression screening and referral plan, and to provide maternal-depression education. The Centers for Disease...
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the Suburbs
July 2013 Domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) – the commercial sexual exploitation of children within U.S. borders – is a growing problem. Once involved in commercial sexual exploitation, according to group counselors Kristine Hickle and Dominique Roe-Sepowitz,...
Sixty Years of Instilling Hope, Restoring Morale and More
March 2013 This year marks the 60th anniversary of North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center. I wonder if its founders, a small group of parents, could have imagined in 1953 that six decades later the Guidance Center would be taking more than 100 calls a week from...
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