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Kathy Rivera: Long Island Business News Most Dynamic Women Leaders
Kathy Rivera serves as executive director and CEO for North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, a children’s mental health organization that focuses on bringing hope and healing to young people struggling with a wide range of emotional challenges. Rivera, who took on the leadership role at the guidance center in June 2021, has been...
Manhasset Coalition Against Substance Abuse Webinar, January 2022
Featuring Kathy Rivera of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center https://youtu.be/DlartAp3Pa8
Children and Technology, webinar at Buckley Country Day School, March 10, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhlqnaLu-s
How to Help Kids Cope with Daylight Savings Time, March 9, 2022
Click here to watch the video on CBS News which featured Guidance Center Executive Director Kathy Rivera
Ask the Guidance Center Experts
Published in Blank Slate Media, February 25, 2022 In this monthly column, therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center answer your questions on issues related to parenting, mental health and children’s well-being. To submit a question, email...
Know the Signs of Teen Dating Violence
February 23, 2022, Parenting Plus in Anton Media, by Elissa Smilowitz Recently, the distraught parents of a local eighth-grade girl contacted North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center because their daughter was severely depressed. They shared that in the past few...
LI Herald Editorial: Congress Should Support Maternal Health Grants, Feb 3, 2022
Featuring Dr. Nellie Taylor-Walthrust and the Birth Justice Warriors, a program co-founded by Taylor-Walthrust and Martine Hackett of Hofstra University. In Nassau County, babies in communities of color are significantly more likely to die during or shortly after...
Ask the Child Guidance Experts
Is it more than the winter blues? In this monthly column, therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center answer your questions on issues related to parenting, mental health and children’s well-being. To submit a question, email...
Gillibrand Seeks Funds to Reduce Deaths among Pregnant Women
By Robert Brodsky, Newsday, January 24, 2022 Black women in Nassau County and across the country are facing a "mortality crisis" that has left women of color three times more likely to die during labor or in the first year after giving birth compared to white women,...
When Parents Have No Place to Turn
By Paul Danilack, Published in Anton Media, January 20, 2022 Growing up, Timmy appeared to be a little bit different than other children his age. He would cry often and have frequent temper tantrums. His parents brought him to see an early intervention therapist, and...
Finding Strength in the Family Ecosystem, Withum’s Civic Warriors Podcast, December 23,2021
Featuring North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center’s Kathy Rivera, Executive Director/CEO, and Elissa Smilowitz, Director of Triage, Emergency and Suicide Prevention Services. Civic Warriors Episode 29 with North Shore Child & Family Guidance...
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