First 5th Giving Sunday Scheduled for This Sunday, Jan. 29
Change hearts and transform lives by making a donation to support your children at Gateway-Longview this Sunday.
Here’s how you can help:
* Make a personal donation in connection with this week’s 5th Giving Sunday. Just click on the Give a Gift icon on Gateway-Longview’s website.
* Also, encourage your church leaders and congregation to take a special offering to support the children of Gateway-Longview.
The first 5th Giving Sunday for 2012 is scheduled for this Sunday, Jan. 29.
For bulletin inserts, or to schedule a speaker, please email Foundation Vice President Kathy Swenson at kswenson@gateway-longview.org, or call (716) 783-3220.
Thank you in advance for your support of 5th Giving Sunday!
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Musical Instrument Donations Needed for New Program
Gateway-Longview's Family Resource Center, located at 347 East Ferry Street in Buffalo, recently launched a free children's music program aimed at providing music education and instruction to disadvantaged children and youth. Instruction is provided by accomplished local musicians and certified instructors.
Gateway-Longview is in need of new or gently-used musical instruments, including string, percussion, woodwind, brass, and keyboards, for the program’s young participants.
Shown above are one of the program's participants with an instructor.
To make a donation, please call the Gateway-Longview Foundation at (716) 783-3220. Financial donations can be made by clicking on the "Giv ...
New Behavioral Health Clinic Now Accepting Clients
Children, adolescents, and their families in Western New York now have a new option for behavioral health treatment. Gateway-Longview's new Behavioral Health Clinic, located at the nonprofit agency's Corporate Headquarters at 605 Niagara Street in Buffalo, opened on Monday, Jan. 23.
Shown above are Kristy D'Angelo, Director of Behavioral Health Services at Gateway-Longview; and Colleen Parucki, Office Manager of Gateway-Longview's Behavioral Health Clinic.
The clinic works with children and adolescents between ages 3 - 21, and their families or significant others, offering individual, family and group therapy. Licensed clinicians offer help in treating a wide variety of behavioral, mental and emotional health challenges, including:
* Anxiety and depression
* Aggression or acting out
* Grief and loss
* Addictions
* Sexual abuse and domestic violence
Gateway-Longview's Behavioral Health Clinic is a facility
licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health, and is open Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
To schedule an appointment now, call the Behavioral Health Clinic at (716) 783-3221.
Gateway-Longview was thrilled to welcome back U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Anthony Eldridge, one of the agency's former foster care clients, when he visited Gateway-Longview's Corporate Headquarters on Niagara Street in Buffalo on Monday, Dec. 12.
Justice waited six years in the foster care system for the gift of a loving mother, and now has "forever family," thanks to Gateway-Longview. Her Christmas wish came true on Tuesday, Dec. 6 in Erie County Family Court when Deneen Anderson of Depew officially became her adoptive mother. The adoption ceremon ...
Buffalo Bills Hall of Fame member Jim Kelly and his Kelly for Kids Foundation have selected Gateway-Longview as a recipient of a $2,500 grant. The announcement was made at the Annual Kelly for Kids Grant Luncheon, which was held on Tuesday, Jan. 10.
The $2,500 grant will support the building of a state-of-the-art therapeutic playground for the special education students served by Gateway-Longview.
Thank you to the Kelly for Kids Foundation for its continued support of disadvantaged children. ...
Gateway-Longview needs volunteers to help with all sorts of service projects, such as painting residential cottages and gardening, as well as a assisting with spiritual services and recreational activities.
