Tag: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Springer earns higher education leadership award
JACQUI SPRINGER, assistant dean of student support and advocacy services with the dean of students’ office at the University of Rhode Island, recently received...
R.I. gets $11.56M in federal funding for opioid response efforts
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has been awarded $11.56 million in federal funding to help save lives and better connect residents struggling with opioid use...
R.I. to get $40.7M for behavioral and mental health services
PROVIDENCE – The state will get $40.7 million in federal funding over the next two years to improve access to behavioral and mental health...
Blue Cross pledges over $1M to fund school-based mental health program
PROVIDENCE – Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island has pledged to contribute more than $1 million over the next three years to...
Gateway Healthcare gets $796K grant to boost home-based trauma therapy for...
PAWTUCKET – Gateway Healthcare on Wednesday received a two-year, $796,757 National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for...
URI First Responder program receives $1.3M federal grant to help prevent...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy’s Community First Responder Program has now expanded to become the Northeast Rural Opioid...
EOHHS to receive $10.5M in federal funds to support child behavioral...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Executive Office of Health and Human Services will receive a $10.5 million federal grant to support mental health services for...
Thrive to expand services with $4.3M federal grant
WARWICK – Thrive Behavioral Health Inc. says it plans to use a $4.3 million federal grant to expand its services in Kent and Washington...
RIDOH, BHDDH partner on new Buprenorphine Hotline
CRANSTON – Launched this month, a new state hotline is helping people with opioid addiction, or who are suffering from opioid withdrawal, find help...
R.I. receives $2M for substance use disorder, mental illness treatment during...
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has received $2 million in federal funds to expand access to treatment for substance use disorders and serious mental illnesses,...