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Child Outreach is a free service offered to all children 3 to 5 years old. Child Outreach provides information about your child’s development and resources that are available within your community. It can also help identify children who may need further assessment, intervention and/ or services at an early age to promote positive outcomes in kindergarten and beyond.

Speech Therapy offered in home to assist with swallowing and communication.

Hospital charity care requirements cover those essential services necessary to diagnose, correct, or cure a medical condition that endangers life, causes pain and suffering, results in illness or infirmity, or causes a physical deformity or malfunction. Both inpatient and outpatient services are included. To receive full charity care, patients annual family income must be up to and including 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. For partial charity care, patients annual family income must be between 200% and 300% of the Federal Poverty Level may receive assistance based on a sliding scale. In addition to income, hospitals have the option to consider other assets. Also must be denied from Medicaid first depending on income. Patients who get accepted will receive financial aid for a year. **For patients who feel that an application or appeal was wrongfully denied should call the RI Dept. of Health info line 222-5960. Website: www.health.ri.gov/hospitals/about/charitycare

Assisted living facility with a secure memory care unit. Provides meals each day restaurant style, scheduled activities, and support services like medication management, help with bathing and dressing and incontinence management. Respite care provides the peace of mind of on-site care staff, prepared meals, and enrichment opportunities, without the long-term commitment.

Owns and operates the state's two largest wastewater treatment facilities--the Fields Point Wastewater Treatment Facility in Providence and the Bucklin Point Wastewater Treatment Facility in East Providence. Mission - to maintain a leadership role in the protection of water quality in Narragansett Bay and its tributaries. The NBC keeps to this vow by continually monitoring water quality at its two buoy locations, collecting water quality casts, mapping surface water quality parameters, and taking samples of the Bay’s bacterial and nutrient levels.

Provides activities, lunch and transportation. Services include case management, holiday assistance programs, LIHEAP, Meals on Wheels, SHIP, SNAP applications.

South County Medical Group Primary Care are Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH). Offers: Patient-Focused Care; Treats the whole person through all stages of life; Provides self-management direction and counseling; Care Coordination; Referrals to specialists and other community agencies; Post-hospital follow-up, electronically or by telephone; Assistance in navigating the medical system; After-hours access to doctor or nurse Clinical Information Settings: Patient registries and electronic prescribing; Monitor follow through treatment; Access to labs and test results; Reminders, decision support, and treatment information; Safe/efficient prescribing practices

Fairmont Heights is subsidized housing 62+ handicapped or disabled.

Parents as Teachers provides: Personal Visits—Your Parent Educator will share age-appropriate child development and parenting information, help you learn to observe your child, and address your parenting concerns. Certified Parent Educators provide all four service components, customized to meet the needs of each individual family. We also offer playgroups and other enrichment programs such as field trips and parent workshops.

Lincoln Emergency Management Agency implements policies related to hazard mitigation and emergency management programs and activities. The EMA also has general supervision of all civil preparedness duties.

Operates scattered, multi-site staffed apartment programs for troubled adolescents in DCYF care; supervised independent living programs, outreach family intervention program and 45 day Evaluation Center. Offers Outpatient individual, group and family counseling; preparation for independent living, case management and community support services. Adoption/ foster care training and licensing, specializing in adolescents.

Woonsocket Housing Authority provides public housing and/or subsidized housing for families, elderly and disabled.

The meetings are drop-in groups and offers support to abused women. Confidentiality is stressed and women may come once or often. The focus is on better understanding of the abuse problem, be it emotional, physical or sexual, current or past. The goal is empowerment of the individual.

Saint Elizabeth Manor is a skilled nursing and rehab center in Bristol and has a long history of providing quality care in the East Bay. With 133 beds, Saint Elizabeth Manor provides short term rehab, long-term care, specialized memory care, and hospice care.

Community non-profit 100 bed general hospital providing both inpatient and outpatient care. Includes diagnostic, x-ray, clinical laboratory, physical therapy, medical/surgical, home health care, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics; intensive care, coronary care, medical social services and emergency medical services.

Services: The mission of the Poverty Institute is to promote economic security for low and moderate income Rhode Islanders and equitable tax and budget policies. We provide research, policy analysis, education, and advocacy on state and federal budget proposals, public benefit programs, adult education and economic development.

The Fogarty Center provides a variety of Employment & Day Supports to many of the people from its residential and other community settings. The Fogarty Center offers individual Person-Centered services for job seekers with intellectual/developmental disabilities by offering a comprehensive progression of employment-related services. These services include; Discovery, Career Exploration, Job Trial/Assessment, Placement, Job Coaching and Monitoring. The Fogarty Center also supports adults by planning meaningful activities throughout the day, based on personal preference, within a variety of settings including day programs as well as locations within the community. Day services are provided on an individual 1:1 basis and/or group settings.

Home-Care, in affiliation with South County Hospital, for adult patients under the care of a licensed physician, with acute, chronic, or terminal illnesses. Services available to patients and their families include skilled nursing, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, social work, wound care specialist, Certified Nursing Assistant and nutrition consultation. Community Programs Health Clinics for senior citizens, home nursing visits to families with newborns. JCAHO Accredited. HomMed™ Home Telemonitoring: Technology that monitors vital signs daily while at home and automatically transmits them to the South County Home Health office where a registered nurse reviews them. Income Source: Insurance; federal and state programs; direct patient fees; town allocations; private donations; grants

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides monthly payments to adults and children with a disability or blindness and who have income and resources below specified amounts. SSI payments can also be made to people 65 and older without disabilities who meet the financial limits. People who have worked long enough may also qualify to receive Social Security disability or retirement benefits as well as SSI. Find out if you are eligible to receive Social Security disability benefits or Social Security retirement benefits.

Apple Rehab offers specialized care for patients recovering from a multitude of illnesses and diagnoses. Our unique physician driven programs are designed to address the individual needs of each patient, ensuring maximum recovery potential.

For those who have experienced the recent death of a loved one, Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice provides several Bereavement Support Groups throughout the year. These groups address a variety of topics designed to help, heal and support those who have lost a loved one. These groups are open to the public and free of charge.

The Picillo Center is a community center where older individuals can participate in community-based outings, physical fitness exercises, art therapy and horticulture activities throughout the day. The gardening project, initially started in 2009, has transformed into a genuine Horticulture program and business. Since its inception, this small garden has grown into a larger fenced garden, incorporating raised flowerbeds allowing for ease with plant care. With interest and ability improving, employees of the program successfully sponsored a number of fundraising events for the purpose of purchasing a greenhouse. With this in place, gardeners are able to begin their harvest earlier by starting with the seedlings. While both of these projects are enjoyable and healing, they also serve as an employment opportunity with produce and flowers being sold to individuals, local vendors and at farm fresh fairs.

Grade Level: 5 - 8

Offers books, periodicals, pamphlets, audio cassettes, CD's, video cassettes, talking books, large type books for loan; two public computers, copying and fax services. Programming for adults and children.

Provide transitional programs for high school students and adults. Vocational Rehabilitation - BHDDH and ORS