In The Media
Talking to Kids about Tragedy
By Kathy Rivera, Executive Director/CEO, North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center Children are always listening, even to things they may not have the ability to fully comprehend. Whether it be from social media, school, or adults in their lives, it’s inevitable that kids are hearing about the many tragedies that are occurring throughout the...
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...
These Long Islanders go over-the-top on indoor holiday décor, and admit it, Published in Newsday, December 20, 2021
Decorating for the holidays is a national pastime and a drive around Long Island this time of year is a brilliantly lit eyeful. But what goes on outside homes — the lights, the sleighs, the reindeer — sometimes pales compared to holiday decorating inside. It’s...
The Pandemic’s Unsung Heroes, By Bruce Kaufstein
All of us - no matter where we live, where we work or whether we consider ourselves left or right or somewhere in the middle – share at least one thing: We are eternally grateful for the dedication of the doctors, nurses, EMTs and other frontline responders who have...
Helene Fortunoff, retail jewelry trailblazer, dies at 88
Newsday, By Tory N. Parrish, November 9, 2021 Helene Fortunoff believed in the value of hard work, at any age. In the 1950s, the retail trailblazer established the fine jewelry division in what was then a small group of Brooklyn housewares and home furnishings stores...
Retail jewelry trailblazer Helene Fortunoff dies at 88
Long Island Business News, By: David Winzelberg November 9, 2021 Helene Fortunoff, one of the country’s most successful jewelry retailers and matriarch of the Fortunoff family, died in Miami Beach Monday from a non-COVID respiratory illness. She was 88. Fortunoff was...
Tiempo, Channel 7 TV, Featuring Regina Barros-Rivera and Erika Perez-Tobon on our Latina Girls Project
The Guidance Center: Annual Pupil Personnel Meeting
North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center hosted the annual pupil personnel webinar for teachers, administrators, social workers and school phycologists. The program addressed the social, emotional, developmental and academic health of children in our community....
Guidance Center Experts on the Transition to High School: Port Washington School Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqDZ4tEPdc The Port Washington School District hosted therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center in a webinar for parents and teens on transitioning from middle school to high school. The program offers great advice...
Kathy Rivera appears on radio show The Nonprofit Voice
Click link below to listen to the interview. https://soundcloud.com/jvcbroadcasting/npv-10-2-north-shore-child-and-family-guidance-center
Ask the Guidance Center Experts
In the September 2021 column that ran in Blank Slate Media, our staff responds to parents’ concerns that their son may be suicidal. In this monthly column, therapists from North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center answer your questions on issues related to...
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