All Programs & Services
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Adoption
Our adoption services find permanent, loving homes for children.
Birth Parent Counseling
Facing an unplanned pregnancy? We can help you find answers to your questions.
Caring Dads
Caring Dads focuses on supporting men to build positive relationships with their children.
Child Care
The Children’s Friend Child Care Program provides quality care and education to children.
Child & Adult Care Food Program
The Child & Adult Care Food Program supports providers to enrich their knowledge of good nutrition and optimal child development.
Early Head Start
Families participate in weekly scheduled home visits that support parents in their role as their child’s first teacher.
Early Head Start Child Care Partnership
Children receive full-day, full-year early education at high-quality licensed child care centers throughout Rhode Island.
Early Intervention
Helping children from birth to three years of age who have or may have a disability, are experiencing developmental delay, or are at risk for significant developmental problems.
Family Care Community Partnership
A collaboration with Family Service of RI, Comprehensive Community Action Program, Center for Southeast Asians, and Tides Family Services to provide ‘High Fidelity Wraparound’ services
First Connections
First Connections supports new moms and their children from birth to age three.
Foster Care
Our foster care program trains and certifies foster parents and provides safe, temporary placement for children
Fostering Families-Kinship Foster Families
Fostering Families addresses the needs of kinship foster families, where children reside with relatives, such as aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, or extended family.
Head Start
Head Start’s comprehensive child and family development services promote school readiness for preschool-aged children from low-income households.
Healthy Families America
HFA pairs expectant mothers or families with newborns with a Family Support Worker until the child’s fourth birthday.
Kids Connect
Provides specialized services for children and youth with special needs so that they can fully participate in classroom daily routines, activities, and learning opportunities.
Nurse-Family Partnership
We pair expectant mothers with a registered nurse, who provides free, intensive home visiting services for the mother and her child until the child’s second birthday.
Partners in Permanency (PIP)
Partners in Permanency provides intensive, home-based services to decrease the length of time children are in foster care.
Pre-K
Our Pre-K classrooms offer high-quality educational opportunities for children who are 4 years old by September 1st.
Project Connect
Provides home-based services for substance-affected families statewide identified by the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF).
Summer Learning & Enrichment Program
Summer Learning & Enrichment provides children with continued developmental and educational opportunities in the summer months.
WIC
A nutrition program that provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding advice and support, referrals to doctors, dentists, and other community services
Birth Parent Counseling
Facing an unplanned pregnancy? We can help you find answers to your questions.
Early Head Start
Families participate in weekly scheduled home visits that support parents in their role as their child’s first teacher.
First Connections
First Connections supports new moms and their children from birth to age three.
Healthy Families America
HFA pairs expectant mothers or families with newborns with a Family Support Worker until the child’s fourth birthday.
Nurse-Family Partnership
We pair expectant mothers with a registered nurse, who provides free, intensive home visiting services for the mother and her child until the child’s second birthday.
WIC
A nutrition program that provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding advice and support, referrals to doctors, dentists, and other community services
Child Care
The Children’s Friend Child Care Program provides quality care and education to children ages 3-5.
Early Head Start
Families participate in weekly scheduled home visits that support parents in their role as their child’s first teacher.
Early Intervention
Helping children from birth to three years of age who have or may have a disability, are experiencing developmental delay, or are at risk for significant developmental problems.
First Connections
First Connections supports new moms and their children from birth to age three.
Healthy Families America
HFA pairs expectant mothers or families with newborns with a Family Support Worker until the child’s fourth birthday.
Nurse-Family Partnership
We pair expectant mothers with a registered nurse, who provides free, intensive home visiting services for the mother and her child until the child’s second birthday.
WIC
A nutrition program that provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding advice and support, referrals to doctors, dentists, and other community services
Child & Adult Care Food Program
The Child & Adult Care Food Program supports providers to enrich their knowledge of good nutrition and optimal child development.
Head Start
Head Start’s comprehensive child and family development services promote school readiness for preschool-aged children from low-income households.
Healthy Families America
HFA pairs expectant mothers or families with newborns with a Family Support Worker until the child’s fourth birthday.
Kids Connect
Provides specialized services for children and youth with special needs so that they can fully participate in classroom daily routines, activities, and learning opportunities.
Summer Learning & Enrichment Program
Summer Learning & Enrichment provides children with continued developmental and educational opportunities in the summer months.
Pre-K
Our Pre-K classrooms offer high-quality educational opportunities for children who are 4 years old by September 1st.
WIC
A nutrition program that provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding advice and support, referrals to doctors, dentists, and other community services
Birth Parent Counseling
Facing an unplanned pregnancy? We can help you find answers to your questions.
Caring Dads
Caring Dads focuses on supporting men to build positive relationships with their children.
First Connections
First Connections supports new moms and their children from birth to age three.
Healthy Families America
HFA pairs expectant mothers or families with newborns with a Family Support Worker until the child’s fourth birthday.
Nurse-Family Partnership
We pair expectant mothers with a registered nurse, who provides free, intensive home visiting services for the mother and her child until the child’s second birthday.
Project Connect
Provides home-based services for substance-affected families statewide identified by the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF).
WIC
A nutrition program that provides healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding advice and support, referrals to doctors, dentists, and other community services
Child & Adult Care Food Program
The Child & Adult Care Food Program supports providers to enrich their knowledge of good nutrition and optimal child development.
Family Care Community Partnership
A collaboration with Family Service of RI, Comprehensive Community Action Program, Center for Southeast Asians, and Tides Family Services to provide ‘High Fidelity Wraparound’ services
Early Head Start Child Care Partnership
Children receive full-day, full-year early education at high-quality licensed child care centers throughout Rhode Island.
Project Connect
Provides home-based services for substance-affected families statewide identified by the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF).
Adoption
Our adoption services find permanent, loving homes for children.
Foster Care
Our foster care program trains and certifies foster parents and provides safe, temporary placement for children
Partners in Permanency (PIP)
Partners in Permanency provides intensive, home-based services to decrease the length of time children are in foster care.
Fostering Families-Kinship Foster Families
Fostering Families addresses the needs of kinship foster families, where children reside with relatives, such as aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, or extended family.