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JANUARY 2008

Hillary Clinton Highlights Special Education
NYU Child Study Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary At Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner

The NYU Child Study Center hosted its 10th  Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner at Cipriani  42nd Street recently. The evening was led by dinner  chairs and board members Michael Recanati  and Ira Statfeld, and honored Board Chair,  co-founder and philanthropist Brooke Garber  Neidich for her dedication to the Center’s fight  against childhood and adolescent psychiatric and  learning disorders.

This year’s dinner raised more than $8.8 million  and marked the 10th anniversary of the  NYU Child Study Center. CBS News Anchor  Katie Couric hosted the event and Senator Hillary  Clinton was in attendance to present Brooke  Garber Neidich with the Child Advocacy Award. 

More than 800 guests were treated to a special  evening, which included the debut of two  new films created by Oscar-nominated director  Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect, 2004) and a live  auction conducted by Sotheby’s Jamie Niven.  Top auction prizes included exclusive travel,  culinary and entertainment packages and raised  over $160,000 for the NYU Child Study Center.  The evening program also included remarks from  NYU Child Study Center founder and director  Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D. and New Jersey  Governor Jon S. Corzine.

A new fund was also unveiled in Brooke  Garber Neidich’s name. Through a philanthropic  art project titled “Open Doors Open Minds”,  The Brooke Garber Neidich Open Doors Fund  will enable the Child Study Center to offer free  services to children who are unable to afford  necessary interventions and treatments—so that  “a child with a need, need not worry.”

Guests at the dinner included: Ellen Barkin;  Erica Jong; Chuck Close; Cynthia McFadden; Dr.  Ruth Westheimer; Perri Peltz; Heather and Steven  Mnuchin; Stuart and Vicki Match Suna; Lisa  and Richard Perry; Fiona Rudin; Elie Wiesel;  Alice Michaels; Sara Ruhl; Jerry Speyer; Merryl  and Jimmy Tisch; Bradley Wechsler and Patty  Newberger; Andreas Dracopoulous; Julie and Ed  Minskoff; Arthur Altschul, Jr.; Alan and Susan  Patricof; Peggy Siegal; Marty and Susan Lipton;  and members of the NYU Child Study Center’s  Board of Directors including Margaret S. Bilotti;  Arthur and Linda Carter; Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn  and Gary Cohn; Michael and Beth Fascitelli;  Jay Furman; Phyllis Green; Lori and George  Hall; Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff; Ellen  and Howard Katz; Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas  H. Lee; Anne Welsh McNulty; Richard and  Marcia Mishaan; Daniel Neidich; Linda and  Richard Schaps; Klara and Larry Silverstein; Jill  and Robert C. Smith; Alice and Thomas Tisch;  Claude Wasserstein; and Robert I. Grossman,  M.D., Dean and CEO of NYU Medical Center.

Past honorees include Mayor Michael R.  Bloomberg; Governor George E. Pataki; Bob  and Suzanne Wright; Whoopi Goldberg; Former  Mayor Rudolph Giuliani; Senator Hillary Clinton  and Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller. This is the  third year that Alexandria Real Estate Equities,  Inc. was the corporate sponsor of the event.

This week the NYU Child Study Center also  rolled out the largest public service announcement  (PSA) campaign in its history and relaunched  its web site, www.AboutOurKids.org. The PSA  campaign, was created pro bono by BBDO to  highlight the nationwide epidemic of children’s  mental illness. The new website will provide  timely and accurate information to parents, educators  and healthcare professionals on childhood  and adolescent psychiatric and learning disorders.

Founded in 1997, the New York University  Child Study Center is the nation’s premier organization  for advancing the prevention, identification,  and treatment of child and adolescent  psychiatric and learning disorders through scientific  practice, research, and education. Last  year children and families from 41 states and 26  countries around the world were evaluated and  treated by the clinicians and faculty at the NYU  Child Study Center

 The NYU Child Study Center is dedicated to  giving children back their childhood and eliminating  the stigma of being or having a child with  a psychiatric disorder.

 To learn more about the NYU Child Study  Center, visit AboutOurKids.org.#

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