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Through curriculum-based youth development services, young people learn to meet their basic personal and social needs and to build competencies which are necessary for a successful adolescent and adult life. Services focus on stressing the youth’s competencies, strengths, and developmental needs while working on problems and weaknesses.

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Cortland Rehabilitation Unit offers skilled nursing and rehabilitation on a short or long term basis. The unit specialized in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, respite care, and respiratory therapy. This facility offers an ideal option for assisted living residents whenever additional care is required.

A pregnancy resource center that offers support to women and men facing unplanned pregnancies. Offers options counseling, 1st trimester ultrasound, parenting classes, childbirth education and material support. Also offers post abortion support. All services are free and confidential. Services include: Post-abortive recovery Pregnancy testing Options counseling (for pregnant women) Relationships/sexual behavior RN on staff Ultrasounds Medical Referrals

Services: Provides outpatient rehabilitation programs to people of all ages with a wide range of functional disabilities caused by accident, illness, or developmental delay. Programs offered are day school program for children ages 3 - 21, with language/learning disorders and brain injury; brain injury day treatment program for adult clients; comprehensive outpatient program and vocational rehabilitation services. Offers evaluation and treatment in audiology, speech/language therapy, special education, occupational/physical therapy, psychological/social services and vocational training. Special features include non-commercial advice on hearing aids, augmentative communication systems, group treatment services, parent workshops, support groups and consult services. Income Source: Fees; Office of Rehabilitation Services (ORS); private health insurance; School Systems

Services: The department is comprised of six divisions designed to inform, entertain and enrich the lives of those who participate : ** Adult Day Services--Professionally designed programs to meet the needs of frail individuals with physical and/or cognitive impairments. Professional staff consists of registered nurses, a case manager, physical therapy assistant and certified nursing assistants. Therapeutic programs include music, art, physical, occupational, speech, aroma, pet therapy. Recreational activities include crafts, painting, exercise, gardening, Tai Chi and Yoga for elders. Intergenerational programs with local schools provide enrichment opportunities for both young and old alike. Support and Referral Services for each participant and their families, coordination with physicians and other service providers. Cost is based on a sliding fee scale. Licensed by the RI Department of Elderly Affairs. **Nutrition--Provides hot, nutritious, homemade lunches served at 11:45am, Monday through Friday. Snack bar with freshly baked goods, soups and much more. Night Life--Dinners, Thursday at 5pm in the Spring and Fall. **Programs--Offers activities that enable seniors to expand their horizons, enrich their lives and pursue a variety of interests. Our programs promote wellness, health maintenance, personal dignity and self worth. Individual needs, interests, skills and abilities are addressed through a variety of stimulating educational, social and health activities to improve the quality of life. **Retired Senior Volunteer Program--Allows anyone 55+ years of age the opportunity to help make the community a better place to live by sharing themselves with others. Participants gain personal satisfaction by serving at a public or non-profit agency. They also have fun by participating in interesting and rewarding experiences. Seniors serve from one to 40 hours a week; RSVP provides guidance and support, transportation, meals and insurance for all volunteers. Social Services--A caring staff of professional case managers and a Community Elder Information Specialist is available to provide support and counseling to seniors and their families, provide access to a network of service providers throughout the city and state, assist with the many available services, offer comfort and compassion, visit homebound seniors to assess and case manage, coordinate Support Groups such as Widow/Widower; Arthritis; Reminiscence. Our staff is available to speak to your community organization on a wide variety of issues. ** Transvan, (401) 943-3341--You don't have to be dependent on your family. Transvan, our daily transportation system for 60+ and/or disabled Cranston residents is available to provide transportation anywhere in Cranston, Monday through Friday. Provides shuttles to nearby malls and local markets. Provides transportation to doctors, nursing homes and hospitals in Providence, North Providence, Johnston and Warwick by appointment.

Deblois Street Apartments is subsidized housing 62+, handicapped, disabled or families.

The Office serves as the definitive resource for information on and the interpretation of Council policy for public higher education and the postsecondary institutions in Rhode Island that are under the authority of the Council on Postsecondary Education (Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island). The Office looks for shared opportunities to advance the objectives of postsecondary education with the public and independent institutions. The Commissioner of Postsecondary Education is the state’s higher education executive officer. In fulfilling this role, the Commissioner for Postsecondary Education works closely with the presidents of the state higher education institutions to determine the benefits or disadvantages of proposed new programs, departments, division, courses of study within the scope and role adopted by the Council on Postsecondary Education and in developing tables of organization. The presidents also prepare and submit budgets to the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Board of Education for approval, and are responsible for the general management of property. To accomplish these and additional responsibilities called for in Article 20, the Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner relies on the collegial relations and civil discussions among the members of the postsecondary community and with important stakeholders from business, government, and PK-12 education.

Administers both a public housing and Section 8 housing voucher program; owns and manages six projects which contain 611 subsidized units. It also administers 257 Section 8 housing voucher services: Subsidized housing units are: Elderly Housing only: Jennings Manor and Budlong Manor; Elderly/disable housing: Randall Manor, Arlington Manor, Knightsville Manor, Hall Manor. For 62+: Budlong Manor, Jennings Manor

Alert1 offers in-home and mobile medical alert systems for seniors and others looking for the security and protection that a personal emergency button alarm provides. Our affordable, easy to use medical alert pendants, bracelets, and watches offer reliable peace of mind for you or your loved ones, 24/7/365.

Food Pantry

The FMM Assisted Living Center's mission is to provide the highest quality of life by providing comprehensive care of each aged resident in a Catholic, Christian environment which respects the rights and the autonomy of each resident.

RIEMA's primary mission is to reduce the loss of life and property and to protect Rhode Island's infrastructure from all types of dangers through a program of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. VOAD Contact: Joe Cournoyer E-mail [email protected]

Soup Kitchen located at former cafeteria of the Parish School at 17 St. John Street

The Institute for Labor Studies & Research sponsors workplace based adult literacy instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL).

Specialized care to residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory impairment. Tamarisk is a kosher community sponsored and developed by the Jewish Seniors Agency of Rhode Island and a Carelink Community.

Regal Court is a subsidized, 35 unit, 62+, Handicapped or Disabled residential housing complex.

The Senior and Disabilities Services at United Way, also known as the POINT, is a statewide resource network that provides information, referrals, and long-term care options to seniors, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers. Get valuable information and assistance about:

• Information and assistance regarding home and community care
• State Health Insurance Program (SHIP)
• Public assistance programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, LIHEAP, and others.
• Information regarding other valuable resources in the community such as healthcare fraud and home care

This service is free and confidential.

Main Street House is run through East Bay Center; all referrals go through East Bay. This program is specifically for schizophrenic children - please do not refer clients to this program directly.

Services: A fine federal mansion furnished with period furniture and magnificent paneling, built in 1773 by James Mitchell Varnum, one of George Washington's generals. Colonial garden.

Family Practitioner

Visiting Nurse: VNS Home Health Services provides a visiting nurse to the Center who will meet individually at no cost with senior citizens to discuss current health problems, to take blood pressures, and to offer basic advice. The visiting nurse is at the Senior Center every fourth Tuesday of each month from 9:30am to 1:30pm. Appointments are made on a first come first served basis. URI Pharmacy Mini Clinic- The University of Rhode Island Mini Clinic is held on the fourth Monday of the month from 11am to noon. You may have blood pressure checked or review medications. SPECIAL PROGRAMS: Medical Equipment Donations: Accepted at the Center to assist others who may need items such as: wheelchairs, bedside commodes, toilet seats, shower chairs, transport chairs and adult underwear, walkers, etc. Should you need medical equipment or adult underwear, please call the center so we can fill out a slip for the item(s). We fill orders on a daily basis as the needed item are received based on a first come first served basis Health Insurance: The Senior Center allows representatives from various health insurance programs to make presentations and offer information on their respective programs at the Center on a continual basis. The Senior Center does not endorse any particular plan but does provide the space and opportunity for these programs so that you, the consumer, can make an educated choice based on the information you may be seeking. For specific scheduling of each health plan, consult the Senior Center's monthly newsletter.

Gateway Healthcare is Rhode Island’s largest nonprofit behavioral health organization providing treatment, intervention and prevention services to individuals in our community. Our mission is: Delivering health with care. It is reflected throughout the organization and drives every element of our day-to-day work. Gateway Healthcare's crisis/emergency services department delivers 24-hour emergency services, assessment and crisis intervention. We are now linked to the Kristen Brooks Hope Center's National Hopeline Network and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. For help, please contact any of the following: Pawtucket Emergency Department, 401-723-1915 Johnston Emergency Department,401-553-1031 Charlestown Emergency Department,401-364-7705

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, is part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and is responsible for these programs which allow a large quantity of Americans access to healthcare they wouldn't otherwise get. Medicare is a health insurance program for people 65 and older, people under age 65 with certain disabilities, and people of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant).

A non-profit organization providing guidance and comfort to those within our community and surrounding areas of Rhode Island. We believe in family first and community second. Educational Workshops Family/Single Parent Workshops Educational Activites/Trips Vocational Workshops Therapeutic De-stressor Program Community Referral Program Produce/Clothing Pantry Food Coupon Swap and more