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ELIZABETH BURKE BRYANT will step down as Rhode Island KIDS COUNT's executive director by the end of the year after leading the organization since its inception in 1994. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Longtime KIDS COUNT leader Burke Bryant to step down

Health Services 09/20/2022

PROVIDENCE – The only executive director in Rhode Island KIDS COUNT’s history will step away from the organization by the end of the year. KIDS...

R.I. KIDS COUNT calls for better data collection to identify ethnic...

Nonprofit 01/04/2022

PROVIDENCE – In its latest policy brief, titled “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Children’s Economic Well-Being in Rhode Island,” Rhode Island KIDS COUNT is...

Survey: 28% of Rhode Island renters struggle to pay housing bills

Economic Activity 11/30/2021

PROVIDENCE – While one in five apartment dwellers throughout the U.S. can't pay their landlords on time, the situation is even worse in Rhode...

Paige Clausius-Parks

Nonprofit 07/23/2021

2021 40 Under Forty Awards Paige Clausius-Parks | 39 | Senior Policy Analyst, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT What is the best advice you have ever...

R.I. KIDS COUNT Factbook: Pandemic had ‘devastating’ impacts on children, families

Coronavirus 05/10/2021

PROVIDENCE – The COVID-19 pandemic has had “devastating” impacts on children and families’ economic well-being, physical and mental health, safety, access to education and...

R.I. KIDS COUNT: Pandemic worsens child food insecurity rate in R.I.

Coronavirus 12/03/2020

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island KIDS COUNT released Thursday its latest report on child hunger and nutrition in the Ocean State that found food insecurity...

NEW DATA FROM Rhode Island KIDS COUNT shows that more middle-school and high-school students are using e-cigarettes, while regular cigarette use has declined. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT

R.I. KIDS COUNT: E-cigarette usage among youth higher than traditional cigarette...

Government 10/30/2020

PROVIDENCE – New data from Rhode Island KIDS COUNT released Friday shows that a higher rate of middle-school and high-school students are using e-cigarettes...

R.I. KIDS COUNT: 14% of R.I. children lived in poverty in...

Nonprofit 09/29/2020

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island KIDS COUNT recently released data showing that 14% of children in the Ocean State, approximately 28,000, lived in poverty in...

HARI looks to improve maternal health for Black women across Rhode...

Health Services 08/14/2020

PROVIDENCE – After news broke last year that Black women experienced severe maternal morbidity at nearly twice the rate of white women throughout Rhode...