Program areas at North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center
Clinical services include diagnostic evaluations and treatment and are provided as a major component at all sites and through home visits. Clinical services include individual, Family, and group therapy, crisis services, case management, medication follow-up, and psycho-educational and self-help support groups. Included are core mental health and chemical dependency services. The agency served 1,881 clients for a total of 25,124 units of service.
Outreach services include those provided on site in homes, schools, community centers, religious institutions, neighborhoods and in other formal and informal community locations. Primarily preventative, outreach services aim to reach vulnerable and disenfranchised populations such as recent immigrants, children with serious learning problems, and youth with histories of truancy and delinquent behavior who are unlikely to access agency services through more formal means.
The school community collaborative focuses on students with serious emotional disturbances who are at risk for being placed in settings outside of their homes. The aim is to maintain students in the least restrictive, most inclusionary environment which includes a school-based mental health collaboration with nassau boces covering all nassau county school districts.
Early childhood services focuses on the needs of children from birth through 6 years of age and their families. The goal of these services is to ensure that the emotional needs of very yourg children are recognized and that services are created that are both psychologically and developmentally sound. The servcies are delivered through the use of evaluation, therapy, consultation and parental/care giver education primarily in the agency's marks' Family right from the start 0-3+ center.