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SAVING ST. MARY’S: Under Beth Bixby’s leadership, Tides Family Services began supporting the St. Mary’s Home for Children in North Providence after details from a December 2023 investigation by the R.I. Office of the Child Advocate found “significant safety concerns and abusive living conditions,” which led to leadership changes there. 
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Bixby rising Tides to help area children and families

Business Women Awards 2025 INDUSTRY LEADER SOCIAL SERVICES/NONPROFIT: Beth Bixby, Tides Family Services CEO WINDS OF CHANGE have been swirling around children’s behavioral health, particularly...

State agencies are hot to hire in FY26 budget requests

State budget officials made it clear: There’s no money for extras in the upcoming fiscal 2026 spending plan, so don’t ask. But that didn’t stop nearly...

PBN’s most-read stories of 2024

From high-profile corporate layoffs to controversial real estate sales, fallout from the Washington Bridge shutdown and organization leadership shakeups, the top stories of 2024...

St. Mary’s temporarily closing psychiatric residential treatment facility by June 7

NORTH PROVIDENCE – St. Mary’s Home for Children will be temporarily closing its psychiatric residential treatment facility by June 7. The decision to temporarily close...

Tides to take over St. Mary’s Home for Children

PROVIDENCE – Months after details of the R.I. Office of the Child Advocate’s scathing report were released, St. Mary’s Home for Children will be...

OCA not satisfied with St. Mary’s Home for Children’s response to...

PROVIDENCE – Months after details of the R.I. Office of the Child Advocate’s scathing report on St. Mary’s Home for Children were released, the...

St. Mary’s Home for Children announces new partnerships

NORTH PROVIDENCE – St. Mary’s Home for Children has unveiled a series of new partnerships as it seeks to bolster its services following a...

St. Mary’s Home for Children appoints two more to clinical positions

NORTH PROVIDENCE – St. Mary’s Home for Children has announced two more staffing changes in the weeks following the scathing R.I. Office of the...

St. Mary’s Home for Children announces new leadership team

PROVIDENCE – Weeks after tapping Charles Montorio-Archer to take over as interim executive director in the wake of a scathing R.I. Office of the...
NAVIGATING SHORTAGES: 
R.I. environmental police officer Jacob Malone, left, checks the size of striped bass caught by two unidentified fishermen in Narragansett Bay. The R.I. Department of Environmental Management says staff shortages have made it difficult to schedule such law enforcement ­operations. 
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DAVID HANSEN

HELP WANTED: There are 1,700 unfilled state jobs, but has anyone...

Stacy Smith says the job for “front-line” workers at the R.I. Department of Human Services isn’t easy in normal times, but the labor market...
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