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Northern Plaza Apartments is subsidized housing 62+, handicapped or disabled.

West Bay Collaborative assists students in the areas of Work-Preparation, Self-Discovery, Career Exploration, Job Development, Job Placement, Job Coaching, and Vocational Assessment and Evaluation. West Bay Collaborative Transition & Vocational Services is a group of unique educational and vocational programs serving youth ages 16+ in the Rhode Island community. The program supports youth, families, schools, and community agencies in the transition process via career exploration, vocational evaluation and employment services. Their mission is to provide quality, innovative, and individualized programs and resources to guide and support young people from school to successful adult living.

Facilities which house a collection of materials including books, manuscripts, journals, government documents and nonprint formats such as paintings, musical recordings, videotapes, films and data files on magnetic tape which are organized to provide physical, bibliographic and intellectual access to a targeted group of people and which generally make available staff to provide services and programs related to the information needs of the targeted group.

Housing programs that make rental housing more readily available to homeless people and/or low-income individuals and families (those below 50% of the area's median income). Some complexes or housing units may be reserved for low-income older adults, people with disabilities and/or other special populations.

Neighbors Helping Neighbors Rhode Island is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families stay in their homes through a variety of ways, primarily by providing necessary home repairs and modifications. NHN RI offers services including building wheelchair ramps, painting houses indoor or out, repairing porches or steps, patching roofs, and fixing windows. All of these can make real differences to neighbors in need. Necessary home repairs are often left undone when people are faced with the need to stretch their paycheck, disability check, or Social Security income. In some cases, completing this work is the only way people are able to stay in their homes and remain independent.

GED Classes

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.

America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are on a mission to improve patient health, advance medical innovation and fuel economic growth. The medicines they create provide hope that a cure can be found, treatment will be effective, and patients’ lives can be lived to their fullest. The Partnership for Prescription Assistance is one way to help connect qualifying patients with the assistance program that’s right for them. PPA is an online service only.

Preserve Rhode Island is the only statewide non-profit working to protect historic places through advocacy, stewardship, and preservation programs. Our mission is to protect Rhode Island's historic and unique places for present and future generations Services Provided: Building Curatorship, Revolving Fund Loans, Building Stewardship, Fiscal Sponsorship, Preservation, Matching Grants

WLNE is a RI based station and an ABC Television affiliate owned and operated by Citadel Communications Ltd.

TSARI tries to define the needs of Rhode Islanders with Tourette Syndrome and their families to design services for them. It is a neurological disorder characterized by tics-involuntary, rapid, sudden movements and/or vocal outbursts that occur repeatedly. We offer monthly support groups, education seminars and special events to families with TS. Meeting: Located at 296 Angel Street Providence RI. Call for more information.

ACOS is Rhode Island's largest provider of high-quality services for adults, children and families infected with or affected by HIV or AIDS. Provides a broad range of services including housing resources, counseling, rapid HIV testing, (anonymous/confidential) Hepatitis testing and vaccinations, case management, advocacy and community outreach programs focusing on prevention and wellness. (For more info on ENCORE, see ENCORE/Needle Exchange in IRIS.) Income Source: RI Department of Health; federal Ryan White Fund, foundations; fees, private support.

16 bed residential for men with substance abuse or combined substance abuse and mental health problems who are committed to staying clean and participating in toxicology screenings three times a week. Length of stay determined on an individual basis. Accepts HIV-positive and methadone clients.

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When you donate a car it goes directly to helping transition people out of trouble and getting them back to work. The center for Living and Learning provides professional training, job search counseling, coaching and more to make sure that people have the right tools to make them successful in the workforce.

Addiction Recovery Institute is an outpatient substance abuse clinic specializing in medication assisted treatment for opiate addiction. We offer a highly individualized treatment approach in a safe, private, comfortable environment, and every person who enters our doors is treated with dignity and respect.

The South County Tourism Council is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the towns of Charlestown, Coventry, East Greenwich, Exeter, Hopkinton, Narragansett, North Kingstown, Richmond, South Kingstown, West Greenwich, and Westerly as a leisure travel destination. The SCTC’s promotional efforts include publication of a 100-page vacation guide; a year-long advertising campaign directed at our leisure tourism market; targeted sales efforts; public relations strategy; participation in numerous trade shows; and a comprehensive website. The SCTC is available to assist travel professionals including media, tour operators, and travel agents, aid in planning a meeting or corporate event, and provide information to help visitors enjoy the destination.

Family & General Medicine (Appointment Necessary) Preventative Care, Physical Exams: Annual*, School, Sports, Camps, & Pre-Employment, EKG and Lab Services, (Outreach site of Kent County Memorial Hospital Laboratory.) High Blood Pressure Treatments, Immunization Updates, Adult Flu and Pneumonia Vaccine, Allergy Injections. Counseling & Medical Treatment: Smoking Cessation, STD & HIV (Confidential), Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Weight Management/ Reduction. Dermatology Services: Rashes & Skin Disorder Treatments, Mole/Skin Lesion Removal, Minor Procedures. Also Offers: Work-Related Injury Treatments; Urine Drug Screens; Free Blood Pressure Checks

Educational institutions that provide formal instruction for students in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades which focuses on a more advanced study of history, geography, social studies, science, literature, art, music, creative writing, physical education and languages, and which may broaden the curriculum to add a number of elective subjects.

Provides lunch to eligible seniors

Provides federally subsidized housing to persons whose household incomes range from very low and moderate incomes; tenant's affordable rent is based on 30% of their adjusted income. Oversees six residential developments, including: Two elderly only: Burns Manor and John. F. Fogarty Manor Two elderly/disabled: John F. Kennedy Manor and St. Germain Manor Two for family only: Prospect Street and Galego Court

OSDRI manages a community supported food pantry and personal hygiene program for use by in-need veterans stocked with non perishables. The pantry is available for use by in-need veterans during normal business hours and is stocked with non-perishables. Veterans wanting to use the pantry must bring proof of veteran status before admittance. Personal Hygiene Program- Personal hygiene products, including soaps, body wash, deodorant, toothpaste, razors, and other items are stocked at the Food Pantry.

Riveredge Village Apartments is a 6 story, 99 unit Section 8 Elderly apartment building located on the Providence/Johnston, RI border. There are 89 one bedrooms with one bath and 10 two bedrooms with one bath.

The John Clarke Retirement Center is a subsidized 62+ facility featuring 50 modern apartments with adjoining 32-room, single-level Nursing Center.

Programs that pick up and impound or return to their owners domestic animals who have strayed from their homes. Also included are programs that enforce leash laws and animal sanitation ordinances and those that handle complaints regarding domestic animals who have bitten someone or are otherwise making nuisances of themselves. Most animal control programs are unable to handle nuisance wildlife unless the animal is sick or shows symptoms of rabies.