Greenburger Center Helps with Hurricane Relief to Anguilla
Anguilla Relief Efforts to DateSeptember 19, 2017 As many of you know, Hurricane Irma hit Anguilla and the surrounding islands in the Caribbean on Wednesday, September 6. The devastation to the island, and to its neighboring island St. Maarten, was tremendous. Many buildings on the island were blown apart, roofs ripped off, fewer structures flattened. […]
Basketball Star and Attorney Len Elmore Joins Board of Advisors and Calls for Change in the NYDN
Len Elmore joined forces with the Greenburger Center because he knows firsthand about mental illness, substance use disorders and the criminal justice system. His two older brothers died from drug use and his father was murdered by Marvin Penick, a man with mental illness and a co-occuring drug addiction who was released from prison on […]
Francis Greenburger, A Man On Many A Mission: A Profile (A profile by Lloyd I. Sederer, MD)
Two sons, each with their agonizing story, and an eccentric, bibliophile of a father help explain the life course of Francis J. Greenburger. As one of the most successful real estate developers in the U.S., Greenburger could not be more unlike Donald Trump, our headline seizing real estate mogul president, than day is to night, […]
Assemblyman Joe Lentol: We Are Failing People Suffering with Serious Mental Illness
Dear Members and Friends, The Greenburger Center is honored to feature Assemblyman Joe Lentol’s article about the failure of deinstitutionalization and the criminalization and homelessness of thousands of New Yorkers suffering from serious mental illness. We are proud that Assemblyman Lentol stands with the Greenburger Center and its efforts to provide a safe and secure […]
A Father’s Story
On Tuesday, Francis and the Greenburger Center were featured in a moving article in the New York Times, “From a Father’s Anguish Comes a Plan to Help Mentally Ill Inmates“. We are grateful for the outpouring of support following publication of the story and hope it will help to decrease the stigma associated with mental […]
