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PBN unveils 2026 Leaders & Achievers honorees

PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has named 24 honorees for its 2026 Leaders & Achievers Awards program. The individuals chosen for this year’s program –...
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

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...
MICHAEL REIS, founder of Tides Family Services Inc., died Sunday at the age of 81. / COURTESY TIDES FAMILY SERVICES

Tides Family Services founder Reis dies at 81

PROVIDENCE – Michael Reis, a De Lasalle Christian brother who founded Tides Family Services Inc. in the early 1980s to help address needs of...

New behavioral health center opens in Pawtucket

PAWTUCKET – A new multicultural behavioral health center serving children from multicultural backgrounds has opened in Pawtucket. Tides Family Services Inc. and Community Care Alliance...
5Q: Beth Bixby
CEO, Tides Family Services Inc. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Five Questions With Beth Bixby

Can you explain what role Tides Family Services plays in Rhode Island? Tides Family provides community-based programs designed to service aged 6-21 throughout...
GROWING ­CONCERN: Crisis phone screeners Alechi Wali, left, and Lydia Villafana take calls at the state-run BH Link call center in East Providence. The center, which fields calls from people experiencing a mental health or behavioral health need, has seen calls related to the COVID-19 pandemic increase in recent weeks. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Pandemic raises workload for mental health agencies

During the first week of March at the BH Link call center in East Providence, about 3.5% of the roughly 40 calls that came...
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