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.
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 short-term services.
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.
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 (SAMHSA) first annual 988 Day on September 8, 2024.
Mariam Kaba, a recent Woonsocket High School graduate, is transforming communities through collaboration and visionary leadership. In 2022, Mariam won big bucks for her big idea to engage Rhode Islanders of color in career preparation, mental health wellness, financial literacy, and more.
Thanks to one passionate Woonsocket graduate from the Class of 2024, many families in the community will have better access to food where the need is most dire.
Due to ongoing weather conditions Monday, the emergency shelter at Serenity Circle, 66 Social St., has been activated to accommodate those seeking shelter.
Eight nonprofits that regularly work with the homeless population in R.I. will receive $160,000 in grants from the Rhode Island Foundation that will be used to help residents stay housed this winter.
