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Linda Leonard, executive director of the Long Island Crisis Center in Bellmore, said she worries that her agency could lose its 24-hour, seven-day-a-week suicide-prevention hotline if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano eliminates funding for the private, nonprofit agency.

Nassau’s social-service network in crisis

The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center would lose more than $300,000 in funding if Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano were to make good on a threat to cut all contracts with nonprofit social-service agencies that work with troubled youth, the mentally ill and drug addicts, said Linda Leonard, the Crisis Center’s executive director, this past week. more

By Scott Brinton | 6/9/12

Reconsider cuts to the neediest

Would you be willing to pay $4 a month more in property taxes to help shield the poor and neediest of your neighbors from the harshest of cuts to county services that are their lifeline? more

3/31/11

A crisis for the L.I. Crisis Center

The Bellmore-based Long Island Crisis Center is facing a crisis of its own: Governor Cuomo’s proposed budget cuts mean that the center could lose nearly one-third of its budget, possibly shutting … more

By Alex Costello | 3/2/11

State must take lead in fight against bullying

With the school year complete and with summer upon us, bullying won’t be a problem for a couple of months, right? Wrong. more

6/29/10

Village Auto gives to L.I. Crisis Center

Village Auto of Bellmore recently donated proceeds from the sale of a 1999 minivan to the Long Island Crisis Center, a non-profit, 24-7 suicide-prevention hotline in Bellmore. more

6/11/10

Plans for 2nd Walk for Lyla announced

The Long Island Crisis Center in Bellmore announced this week that the Second Annual Walk for Lyla will be held June 12 at 11:45 a.m. at the Norman J. Levy Park and Preserve in Merrick. The walk is held annually in honor of Lyla Stern of Merrick, a 16-year-old Calhoun High School senior who died last year. more

Scott Brinton | 5/7/10

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