North Shore Child And Family Guidance Association Incorporated

The school community collaborative focuses on students with serious emotional disturbance who are at risk of being placed in settings outside of their homes. The aim is to maintain students in the least restrictive, most inclusionary environment. Included are school-based mental health collaborations with nassau boces, covering all nassau county school districts.

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.

Early childhood services focus 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 young children are recognized and that services are created that are both psychologically and developmentally sound. The services 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.