St. Mary’s Home For Children - Providence Business News

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.  PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Bixby rising Tides to help area children and families

Business Services 05/23/2025

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...

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Business Services 12/31/2024

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FEELING THE STRUGGLE: Tides Family Services Inc., which provides families with home-based counseling services for children, has been dealing with a staffing shortage that forced it to start a waiting list for the first time in 40 years.  PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Advocates say youth mental health services still in crisis

Focus 12/20/2024

Rebecca Almeida spent three hours on a recent school day searching for her 14-year-old daughter. Suffering from several behavioral health challenges, Almeida’s daughter lost her...

R.I. officials break ground for new girls behavior health care campus

Government 08/14/2024

A new behavioral health care campus for adolescent girls who would otherwise have to seek treatment outside Rhode Island is coming to state owned...

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

Health Services 06/03/2024

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...