Early Childhood Mental Health Care

Child and Family Services link
including Healthy Families America and Incredible Year Parenting Classes

Children's Emergency Services link

See the above web links for additional information on the extensive programs offered by The Providence Center for children and families. 

School Counseling and Support Program in the Providence School System link

Adult Services link

Addiction Treatment link

 The Providence Center is at the forefront of innovative approaches to behavioral health care designed to meet the changing needs of the more than 18,000 Rhode Islanders it serves each year.

The mission is to help adults, adolescents and children affected by psychiatric illnesses, emotional problems and addictions by providing treatment and supportive services within a community setting.

The Providence Center is also one of Rhode Island's Community Mental Health Centers providing care to adults

The Providence Center School-information on separate entry
Anchor Learning Academy a substance recovery High School-information on separate entry.

Providing behavioral health services across the developmental stages of the family. The staff in the Center for Children and Families provides integrated care across psychology, psychiatry and clinical social work to support adults and children.   

• Perinatal, Postpartum and Infancy services 
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Family Support NICU
• Newborn Neurobehavioral Consult Service
• Infant Behavior, Cry, and Sleep Clinic (also called the Colic Clinic) 
• Occupational Therapy Consult Service
• Healthy Early Relationships (HER)
• Center for Children and Families Clinical Services
• Diagnostic evaluations 
• Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) Clinic (up to age 18)

The Center for Children and Families at Women and Infants provides behavioral health services across developmental stages of the family. The staff in the Center for Children and Families provides integrated care across psychology, psychiatry and clinical social work to support adults and children.  

Developmental stages served include: adult services to support women during the perinatal and postpartum period; family-based mental health services for parents and infants; infant services around sleep and regulatory difficulties; early childhood services with a focus on diagnostic evaluation and child/family therapy; and services to children of a broad age range with autism or a parental concern for autism. 

The Center for Children and Families is closely aligned with the Brown Center For The Study Of Children At Risk. The mission of the Center is to stimulate outstanding interdisciplinary research, education, and clinical services on the biological and social factors that determine the developmental outcome of at-risk children.

Monday thru Friday 8:00-4:30 pm.