(Long Island, NY) Hempstead-based social service agency EAC Network hosted its second annual Casino Night on March 10, 2016 at the Carlyle on the Green in Bethpage State Park. The organization honored its long-time friend, Board Member, and Board Chairman Emeritus Joseph A. Quatela, Esq., partner at Quatela, Hargraves & Chimeri, PLLC, for his dedication to the agency and to helping the community at large as well as awarded him with its inaugural Steven J. Eisman Humanitarian Award, in memory of the late Steven J. Eisman, Esq., another long-time Board Member and Board Chairman Emeritus of EAC Network.
Honoree Joseph A. Quatela receives the Steven J. Eisman Humanitarian Award from Lance W. Elder. Photo Credit: EAC.
“I am honored to receive this astounding recognition, but it is truly everyone at EAC Network who deserves to be acknowledged,” said Mr. Quatela. “I’ve been involved with this agency for so many years and I am so proud to be affiliated with an organization that reaches so many people in need right here in our own communities.”
Proceeds from the event benefit all of EAC Network’s services that protect at-risk children, support senior citizens, help people with mental health and substance abuse problems, educate people seeking financial independence, assist individuals who are under or unemployed, mediate disputes, and work with families in crisis, which impact over 71,000 lives each year. This helps fill in the cracks for programs like Nassau Supervised Visitation, which provides safe visits between children and their non-custodial parents, and the Suffolk County Children’s Center at Cohalan Court, which offers a child-friendly environment where children are supervised while parents attend to court business as well as promotes literacy.
“I just want to thank Joe, our top sponsors Bethpage Federal Credit Union, MSC Industrial Supply Co., Astoria Bank, M&T Bank, NFP/BWD Group, Quatela, Hargraves & Chimeri, PLLC, our devoted family of supporters, and our newfound supporters for their tremendous dedication and generosity,” expressed Lance W. Elder, President & CEO at EAC Network. “We couldn’t have achieved this without them.”
For more information on EAC Network, visit www.eac-network.org.
ABOUT EAC NETWORK
Founded in 1969, EAC Network is a not-for-profit human service agency with a network of over 70 programs throughout Long Island and New York City whose mission is to respond to human needs with programs and services that protect children, promote healthy families and communities, help seniors, and empower individuals to take control of their lives. Among those the organization assists are children who have been physically or sexually abused, senior citizens needing support, people struggling with substance abuse and/or mental illness, youth in the foster care system, persons on public assistance seeking financial independence, adults and youth who are under or unemployed, individuals needing help to mediate disputes, and families in crisis. For more information about EAC Network, please call 516-539-0150 or visit www.eac-network.org,facebook.com/eacnet, and @EACNet.
