Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day at NUMC

NuHealth, the parent organization of East Meadow’s Nassau University Medical Center, will be participating in Mental Health Awareness month, which takes place during May. The organization is going to raise awareness throughout the entire month, but they will also recognize Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day on May 3 at the NuHealth's child, adolescent and family outpatient center  and NUMC.

There will be an information booth set up at both the Westbury/New Cassel Health Center and NUMC’s lobbies between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to answer questions, talk about services and offer other information about self-esteem, obesity, ADHD and childhood depression, according to a press release from the hospital.

“We are pleased to have Sally Ann Graham, PhD, director of child, adolescent and family outpatient center at NUMC and her staff, participating in the National Mental Health Awareness Month as well as Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, an act passed by Congress in 1949,” said Chair of the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Nassau University Medical Center Nyapati Rao, MD, MS, in the NuHealth press release. “Raising awareness will help us further our efforts to promote the well being of children, youth and families with mental health concerns within our community.”

The child, adolescent and family outpatient center is newly opened and offers many services that assist patients with difficulties due to emotional, behavioral, social and medical issues, specifically in those between the ages of 4 and 21. The program helps families deal with varying behaviors with individual, family and group therapies. The center also does many mental health assessments and treatments.