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Health insurers count on our silence

I didn’t attend many funerals in my childhood. One that I recall was for the father of a close childhood friend. more

By Andrew Malekoff | 5/3/19

The key panel of the summit featured Stacy Brief, center at right, a community organizer of the Long Island Wellness Summit Committee and a former Mepham High School student.

First teen wellness summit hits L.I.

Messages of hope were shared with more than 200 teens during Nassau County’s first Youth Wellness Summit on March 19. It was hosted by the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, and 22 other schools each sent six students and an administrator. Students from Valley Stream, Wantagh, Seaford, Long Beach, Oceanside and East Meadow participated. more

By Andrew Garcia | 3/28/19

Joe, center, spent years on the street homeless, and because he suffered from mental illness, it was difficult for him to find help from government or nonprofit agencies. Madeleine Petrara Perrin and the Rev. David Czeisel came to his aid.

Help for the mentally ill homeless is hard to find

It was the summer of 2012. Madeleine Petrara Perrin, an attorney from Bayville, couldn’t get over how much Joe had changed. She had last seen Joe, a Bayville native who was 56 at the time, at his apartment a year earlier when she was volunteering for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic charitable group committed to ending poverty. Joe was a shell of his former self. more

By Laura Lane | 10/2/14

You can help save a life

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. The month may be nearly over, but suicide prevention is a topic that needs to be discussed year-round. more

9/26/13

Stefanie Kaufman, W.T. Clarke senior, was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award.

Trying to erase a stigma

When W.T. Clarke High School senior Stefanie Kaufman received a letter from the White House — complete with the presidential seal and President Obama’s signature — informing her that she had won the President’s Volunteer Service Award, her initial reaction was not celebration, but relief. more

By David Weingrad | 3/1/13

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