Hempstead, NY – October 8, 2018 – Recently appointed to EAC Network’s Board of Directors is West Islip resident Samuel J. Ferrara, Esq., Executive Partner and Co-Director of the Family and Matrimonial Law department at Lake Success-based Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP.
Mr. Ferrara is a highly-recognized litigator and negotiator, counseling clients in matrimonial and family law as well as in transactional, corporate, and commercial matters. He shares his expertise in parent education, custody, and parental access as an instructor at various professional organizations and as an adjunct professor at Hofstra University, where he received his J.D. His professional focus areas directly align with many of EAC Network’s children and family programs, including the Long Island Parenting Institute (LIPI), Supervised Visitation, and Project Access.
“We are so grateful to have Mr. Ferrara as a new guiding force on our Board of Directors,” said Lance W. Elder, President & CEO at EAC Network. “Not only is he well-versed in everything family and children-related, but he is also an experienced mediator, which will lend a supportive helping hand to our Long Island Dispute Resolutions Centers.”
Mr. Ferrara is one of the directors of the co-parenting skills enhancement program called Parent Education and Custody Effectiveness program (PEACE), is on the Board of Directors of the Nassau County Bar Association, and is a member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Suffolk County Bar Association.
With an interest in “supporting an organization that provides so much to the community” by “giving those in need [and the] less fortunate an opportunity to succeed through education and empowerment,” Mr. Ferrara is welcomed to EAC Network with open arms.
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About EAC Network
EAC Network is a diverse not-for-profit human service agency that empowers, assists, and cares for over 82,000 individuals including children, families, seniors, and the incapacitated who are in crisis across Long Island and New York City. Among those we help are children who have been abused or who are in foster care, people struggling with addiction or mental illness, vulnerable seniors, individuals seeking gainful employment, and more. For more information, visit us at www.eac-network.org, call (516) 539-0150, or find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram at @EACNet.
