In The Media

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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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...

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 21, 2014 was declared a Day of Special Recognition through the Town of North Hempstead for North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center.

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,...

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]....

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...