Tag: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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,...
Five Questions With: Leslie Bridgman
As CODAC Behavioral Healthcare’s director of correctional services, Leslie Bridgman oversees CODAC’s medication-assisted treatment program.
Created four years ago, the MAT program gives inmates...
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