Residents of Barrington, Bristol, East Providence, Jamestown, Little Compton, Middletown, Newport, Portsmouth, Tiverton, Warren

• Child and Family Counseling
• Sandpipers Early Learning Center
• Foster Care
• Enhanced Outpatient Programs
• Residential Programs
• Substance Abuse Programs
• East Bay's Family Care Community Partnership (FCCPs) agency, part of DCYF's network of prevention focused providers, brings community based services to children and families in order to build a stronger, brighter future. FCCP's focus on your family, and wrap you with the right local services and community programs to build a stronger family.

Child & Family is the largest and most comprehensive social service provider in Newport County, and one of the largest in the State of Rhode Island. It is a center for community involvement – a place where people come together to give help, to receive help and to support the work of others. With state-of-the-art Community Centers in both Middletown and Providence, Child & Family provides important services and programs to thousands of children, teens, families and elders throughout Rhode Island each year.

Additional office location is in separate directory listing.

1268 Eddy Street

Providence, RI 02905 

Additional lead agencies for the Family Care Community Partnership 

Community Care Alliance Northern Rhode Island

Communities for People East Urban Core

Family Service West Urban Core

Child and Family East Bay

Tri-County Community Action Kent/Washington County

Early Intervention serves eligible children from birth to three years of age and their families to promote the growth and development of infants and toddlers with developmental delays. Serving residents of Burrillville, Cumberland, Foster, Glocester, Johnson, Lincoln, North Providence, North Smithfield, Scituate, Smithfield and Woonsocket

Services are provided by a team of qualified professionals working in partnership with the family to ensure the best possible service provision.
Services include:
Comprehensive child & family assessment
Assistive technology services & referrals
Nutrition services
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Speech/language therapy
Child & parent group

Community Care Alliance Early Intervention

Director, Darlene Magaw 401-767-4078

A comprehensive community support agency that provides over 50 programs that range from home visiting and basic needs to substance abuse treatment. The other listing contains information on additional programs beyond Early Intervention.

Mailing address:

Early Intervention Program at Community Care Alliance

PO Box 1700

Woonsocket, RI 02895

Child and Family Counseling Services link

Family Centered Treatment link

Foster Care Program link

Enhanced Family Support Services link

Addiction and Recovery Services link

Family Care Community Partnerships FCCP

Child & Family is the largest and most comprehensive social service provider in Newport County, and one of the largest in the State of Rhode Island.  It is a center for community involvement – a place where people come together to give help, to receive help and to support the work of others. With state-of-the-art Community Centers in both Middletown and Providence, Child & Family provides important services and programs to thousands of children, teens, families and elders throughout Rhode Island each year.

Middletown location

31 John Clarke Road
Middletown, RI 02842
T | 401-849-2300
F | 401-841-8841

Additional lead agencies for the Family Care Community Partnership 

Community Care Alliance Northern Rhode Island

Communities for People East Urban Core

Family Service West Urban Core

Child and Family East Bay

Tri-County Community Action Kent/Washington County

Our therapeutic health providers accept many major insurance plans in Rhode Island including Blue Cross, United Health, and Neighborhood Health.

• Neuropsychological evaluations for ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and other Learning Disabilities (LD)

• Executive Functioning, and Executive Functions Technology Assessments

• Executive Functioning Consultation which help identify working memory issues and other learning disorders and skills to improve these issues.

• Educational Technology Training

• ADHD Evaluations

• Working-memory and executive-skills development

South County Child and Family Consultants provides a wide range of psychological services and testing to children, adolescents, and young adults in Rhode Island. We also provide a number of free digital resources for clinicians, pediatricians and parents to help understand common childhood psychological issues, and options for testing and treatment.

Our highly-trained staff of neuropsychologists, psychologists and clinicians have regular office hours Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

WIC Program is for Pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum (less than six months) women, infants less than 12 months old and children less than five years old.

• Resident of Rhode Island
• Having a nutritional need
• Meeting income guidelines

Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Link

Diabetes in Pregnancy Link

Our professional staff is made up of fully licensed and registered dietitians and nutritionists with special expertise in all aspects of women's nutrition, including the needs of pregnant women, diabetes and cancer.

A grandparent’s hub, a place where grandparents can connect to community, share their stories, engage in support groups, learn about resources and celebrate successes.

Resources

• Foster & Kinship Care
• Family & Legal Court
• Housing-Lead
• Parenting and Child Safety
• Wellness & Substance Use

A Grand Space Workshops virtual support groups

Mission – Our mission is to inspire, empower and preserve grand families by supporting grandparents raising grandchildren impacted by substance use disorder and other traumas to navigate systems and reduce barriers fostering success in their new role as caregivers.
Grands Flourish, Inc is a nonprofit organization that provides supports, services and other resources to grandparents raising grandchildren.

Grands Flourish Inc., is Rhode Island’s only nonprofit organization supporting grandparents raising grandchildren.

Children's Friend & Service has extensive programs to support families in Rhode Island. Please see website for details. 
Programs include:
Early Head Start
Head Start
Child Care

Adoption Support and Preservation
Foster Care
Fatherhood Initiatives

Kids Connect Agency
Provider of Family Care Community Partnerships FCCP

Home Visiting Programs including:

First Connections
First Connections at Children’s Friend provides free, voluntary, confidential home visits in Central Falls, Cranston, Pawtucket and Providence to pregnant women and families with young children, birth to age three.
Healthy Families America

Healthy Families America is a national evidence-based maternal and child home visiting program that provides free, voluntary, confidential services. The program pairs expectant mothers or families with newborns with a Family Support Worker, who provides home visiting services to the family and their child until the child’s fourth birthday.

Nurse Family Partnership

Nurse-Family Partnership is a national evidence-based maternal and child home visiting program that provides free, voluntary, confidential services to expectant first-time mothers and then their newborns. The program pairs expectant mothers with a registered nurse, who provides intensive home visiting services to the mother and her child until the child’s second birthday.

Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program

WIC offices have temporarily moved to 153 Summer Street in Providence. Please call ahead to check hours. 401.752.7781 

Early Intervention at Children's Friend is listed separately in the directory. 

Children's Friend provides a comprehensive array of social services that strengthen families, are culturally relevant and support the healthy development of children.
Across Rhode Island, our staff provides services to help over 31,488 individuals annually.
Sites in Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls, we provide a broad array of services for children and families.

The Cerebral Palsy Family Network was started by a group of families whose children developed cerebral palsy (CP) due to medical errors and birth injuries. The Cerebral Palsy Family Network (CPFN) is an online community for connecting and supporting similar families. In partnership with Howard Janet, founder of the Cerebral Palsy Family Lawyers of Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC, and Dr. Giles Manley, a board-certified OBGYN, CPFN provides families with access to the educational, emotional, and financial resources they need to care for their loved ones.

Referral from pediatrician/physician faxed to 401-453-7697

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. 

A RIte Care plan for families, children, pregnant women and children with special health care needs.

NHPRI follows the Network model and serves the following Medicaid populations in Rhode Island:

• Families with low to moderate income
• Children with special health care needs
• All children in the RI foster care system
• Medicaid-only adults with disabilities
• Medicaid expansion population, and
• Dually eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) beneficiaries https://www.nhpri.org/medicare-medicaid/
• We also serve individuals and small businesses through HealthSource RI (Rhode Island’s health benefits exchange).

ACCESS is Neighborhood’s plan through the RIte Care program for children, families and pregnant women. 

Care Coordination programs are available through Neighborhood including:

• Neonatal Case Management Program can help you coordinate and manage the many needs of your baby after being discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
• The Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSN) Care Management Program can help to improve a child's health and wellness if they are at risk due to complex medical and/or social issues.
• The Substitute Care Program can help improve the health and wellness of children in foster care.

Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island (Neighborhood) is a non-profit HMO that was founded in 1994 to make sure everyone in the state has access to high-quality, low-cost health care. Neighborhood has been ranked as one of the top Medicaid health plans in America for the past twelve years and currently serves more than 190,000 members. Neighborhood also recently extended its great service, benefits and value to individuals and businesses through HealthSource RI – the state’s health insurance exchange.