North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, hosted the Jonathan Krevat Memorial Golf & Tennis Classic on June 5 at the outstanding Nassau Country Club in Glen Cove.
The event raised over $136,000 to support the Guidance Center’s work to bring hope and healing to children and families dealing with mental health or substance use challenges.
Almost $17,000 in additional funds were raised for the Guidance Center’s Douglas S. Feldman Suicide Prevention Project, another life-saving initiative that launched in 2020.
“The mission of the Guidance Center is more important than ever before, with children and teens suffering from serious mental health challenges,” said Troy Slade, board member and co-chair of the event. “We are all so grateful to our many friends, colleagues and family members who came out to support this vital organization that makes a real difference for the children in our community.”
This year’s guest speaker was Rose Ryan, who was a Guidance Center client from the Caregiver Grandparent Respite and Support Program which offers support, information and resources for grandparents who are the primary caregivers for their grandchildren because the child’s parents are incarcerated, battling addiction, or otherwise unable to care for their child.
Ryan told the audience, “The Guidance Center has been there for me for almost 30 years as a parent, grandparent and now great grandparent, I am grateful for the skills I acquired and the compassion that the clinicians and staff at Guidance Center offered. It has been a life changer! And now, I am able to volunteer and give back my time to the program. It’s been very rewarding.”
The co-chairs for this year’s Krevat Cup were board members Michael Mondiello, Dan Oliver, Michael Schnepper and Troy Slade.
The event’s sponsors were The Albanese Organization, Americana Manhasset, Aon Reinsurance Solutions, Bahnik Foundation, Canon Solutions America, City National Rochdale, Jeff & Susan Krevat, The Levine Group Inc., Newmark, PSEG Long Island and Rivkin Radler LLP.