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Last year, the original state budget proposal for homeless services caused such an uproar over funding shortages that Gov. Dan McKee changed course and appropriated additional millions of dollars.

The grants to 13 nonprofits across the state are expected to help more than 600 Rhode Islanders keep a roof over their heads. The Rhode Island Foundation today announced it will award $260,000 to help Rhode Islanders stay housed this winter.

The Rhode Island Public Health Association honored Michelle Taylor, VP of Social Health Services, among other award recipients at its 28th Annual Meeting on November 20, 2024.

Community Care Alliance (CCA) renamed a program in honor of Nancy Paradee, retired Senior Vice President. Nancy’s career spanned 30 years in Woonsocket where she applied her vision and leadership to developing programs that impacted tens of thousands of individuals and families. On October 21 st , ...

In decades past, Rhode Island was a leader in children’s behavioral health care. The state had developed intensive care programs for children that effectively decreased hospitalizations. But as these programs matured, the state ceded them to managed-care organizations that turned them into acute sh...

The Rhode Island Coalition for Children and Families (RICCF) released a comprehensive policy brief, Children in Crisis Can’t Wait: The Case for System Transformation, highlighting “the urgent challenges facing the state’s children’s behavioral health system."

The 42 organizations that make up the Rhode Island Coalition for Children and Families called for a new cabinet-level state department to oversee children’s behavioral health in a report released Thursday at an event in Providence.

The 42 organizations that make up the Rhode Island Coalition for Children and Families called for a new cabinet-level state department to oversee children’s behavioral health in a report released Thursday at an event in Providence.

In Rhode Island, HHP contracts with Community Care Alliance (CCA) to run both BH Link and the 988 Call Center. On Sunday, 9/8, Rhode Island’s 988 Call Center will join communities across the country in a day of awareness focused on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SA...

Three organizations in Woonsocket work directly with vulnerable individuals to stem the tide of the public health crisis that ends the lives of so many through overdose. Hear how their support makes a difference.