The board of directors of St. Mary’s Home for Children, a residential treatment center serving youth in state care, announced on Tuesday that it was shutting down the facility. The nonprofit planned to relocate its outpatient program and school to the offices of Tides Family Services, the agency that took over some responsibilities earlier this […]
St. Mary’s Home for Children
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Rhode Island has ‘more kids in psychiatric care that should be someplace else’
For years, Marty Sinnott warned Rhode Island lawmakers of trouble mounting in the state’s child welfare system. But the CEO of the Middletown-based nonprofit Child and Family Services of Newport County says nobody listened. Now, officials from the state Department of Children, Youth and Families are scrambling to remove kids from the troubled St. Mary’s […]
