Solutions Supporting Long-Distance Senior Care
More seniors are choosing to age in place, and caregivers are often attempting to assist them from far away. Thankfully, many solutions are available to ease this long-distance dilemma.
H.S. Students Speak Up and Speak Out
“High School Students ‘Speak Up and Speak Out’ About Today’s Timely Issues” Click Here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/user-848078426/youth-bureau-community-college-psa-project Long Island Youth connected to the Town of Smithtown’s Horizons Counseling and Education Center, The Smithtown Youth Bureau, and the Smithtown Youth Alliance …
Helping Others Find Work: Step 1
Whenever helping someone find employment, I know two things; they want a job and they are only going to share what they think is needed for me to help them. There are many things which, having possession of that knowledge, …
Combating Back-to-School Anxiety
Makayla DuBois and Patrick Harlan, FCNI Rehabilitation SpecialistsVoice of an FCNI StaffWe all know that the Back-to-School anxiety is a real thing, so some of our Rehabilitation Specialist staff who work one-on-one with our youth and families, as well as …
3 Vital Reasons to Talk About Gender Identity in Schools
Gender identity has increasingly entered the national conversation. After centuries of oppression, trans and gender non-conforming individuals continue to fight for visibility and civil rights. As activists work to open minds and change cultural perceptions toward gender-expansive individuals, it is …
How Social Workers Can Address the Trauma of Family Separation
As soon as Border Patrol picked them up after they crossed into the U.S. from Guatemala, Jamelin González and her two brothers were separated from their mother –– the siblings sent to foster care in New York and their parent …
School security officers promise a sense of safety. The actual effects are unclear
Scot R. Peterson, the school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., became a pariah for never venturing into the building where a former student shot and killed 17 people and injured 15 others in February. …
Why are Foster Youth Stuck in Care for So Long in New York? New Answers from Researchers
An influential child welfare foundation has a new diagnosis for what ails New York City’s foster care system. It explains one of the most vexing issues facing youth who have been removed from their parents’ By Michael Fitzgerald This post …
Self-Taught Techie Designs App to Get At-Risk Kids into Preschool
Steve Sturm believes every child should have the same opportunities that his 3-year-old daughter Reagan enjoys. Things like new boots, trips to the trampoline park — and preschool. But for children known to the foster By Sara Tiano This post …
The Inconvenient Truth
In my life, I have searched for many things. I have sought out love. I have tried to find peace. But more than anything, it seems like my life has been one constant search for clarity. Who am I? What …
