Thirty-year-old Courtney Bowe is determined to follow her dream of becoming a flight nurse and attend to seriously injured or sick patients being transported in helicopters.

She’s got the ambition and the family background — her dad is a flight paramedic and her mother is a nurse. She’s finishing nursing school while working as a patient care technician at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead.

But a few years ago, those plans were almost derailed. Overwhelmed by school, work and life, Bowe, of Medford, felt lost and depressed, unable to articulate her pain. She got treatment through the Behavioral Health College Partnership at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, part of Long Island Jewish Medical Center. It’s a unique inpatient program that focuses specifically on college and gradu

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