The North Shore Child and Family Guidance received an $170,000 grant from the van Ameringen Foundation to support its outpatient mental health program for two years.
“The van Ameringen Foundation has been staunch supporters of children’s mental health and was instrumental in helping the Guidance Center to launch and sustain our successful school-based mental health program and triage and emergency service,” Andrew Malekoff, CEO of North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center said in a statement.
North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, which is headquartered in Roslyn Heights, treats patients up to age 24 who suffer from depression, anxiety, developmental delays, school failure, substance abuse and family crises.
“We are gratified to receive this generous grant at such a critical time when increasing numbers of community-based mental health clinics are restricting access to care,” Malekoff said.
The guidance center also offers outpatient mental health counseling and teen drug abuse and prevention services.
“This grant will enable us to continue our policy of offering universal access to care and turning no one away for inability to pay,” Malekoff said.