The collaborative – Crossroads, One Neighborhood Builders, Foster Forward and Family Service – want the state to invest in a $60 million plan to convert a long-vacant nursing home into 160 affordable housing units.
Across the country there is an ever-increasing demand for social work clinicians, particularly clinicians who are Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). To expand the number, diversity and educational level of these professionals, Rhode Island College, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) and the Rhode Island Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner (RIOPC) have created a unique program.