WJCS News

WJCS Board Treasurer Linda Plattus has been helping brighten the holiday season for children in Westchester with an annual holiday gift drive and lunch for more than a decade. This year's event raised a record-breaking number of donations

Your gift today will provide early literacy programming for young children, empower individuals with disabilities to build friendship bonds and support research-backed trauma treatment

Kristina is one of 300 Westchester children receiving life-changing treatment at WJCS after experiencing sexual abuse and/or domestic violence. She's learning how to build her resilience and take back her childhood

Shari and Stephanie met and are becoming fast friends in WJCS Shelanu, a program that brings young Jewish adults with autism together for social and recreational activities

50 million is the number of words a child from a financially advantaged family hears before kindergarten versus 15 million words for a child from a low-income family.

Many parents can't afford holiday gifts for their children, and a gift from WJCS is the only one they'll receive

More than 200 guests, models and fans of WJCS Kids' Kloset made the 4th Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser a fabulous event, cheering kid models as they strutted their stuff on the red-carpet runway and raising funds for the program.

In the October Expert's Corner, Liane Nelson, PhD, WJCS Chief Psychologist, explains how a pivotal study showed how pervasive trauma is and its influence on WJCS' treatment of people affected by it