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Renee Randol is a board-certified behavior analyst. She founded North Kingstown-based Navigate Behaviors LLC in 2016 and serves as executive director. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Focus on staff strengths

Renee Randol | Navigate Behaviors LLC executive director A neurodiverse workforce is one where a spectrum of employees can complement each other to achieve a...
Tracey Cunningham-Martins was named CEO and president of Cranston-based AccessPoint RI in 2022. She previously served as associate director of employment for the R.I. Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Be inclusive for all

Tracey Cunningham-Martins | AccessPoint RI CEO and president Matching individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and those with barriers to employment with suitable employers is...

Jones to serve as interim director of BHDDH

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced on Friday that Sec. Womazetta Jones will be immediately deployed to serve as interim director of the...
SMALL STAFF: David Reiss, executive director for The Fogarty Center, a nonprofit that offers services for adults and children with developmental disabilities, speaks with Robyn Eannarino, administrative assistant. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With: David Reiss, executive director at The Fogarty Center

5Q: David Reiss | Executive director, The Fogarty Center 1. How has COVID-19 impacted the services The Fogarty Center provides and the people it...
FILLING A NEED: Joshua Ellison, right, founder of Edge and End, with employee Jason Harritos, oversees an enterprise that helps people with developmental disabilities to have work experiences and hopefully employment through woodworking.
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Edge & End uses woodworking as a tool to help disadvantaged...

Joshua Ellison, the son of Pawtucket-based Lorimer Studios LLC’s founder, cites an “interesting serendipity” as the inspiration behind Edge & End LLC, founded in...
REBECCA BOSS is the director of the Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND HOSPITALS

State plans $2.5M move of Eleanor Slater patients to Benton Center

CRANSTON — The Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals will relocate Eleanor Slater Hospital’s psychiatric patients to the Roosevelt Benton Center to...
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