For many years, it’s been challenging for Latinx community members in Rhode Island to find a bilingual mental health provider. The pandemic only made that prospect worse. In fact, Rhode Island’s behavioral healthcare workforce, which is primarily white and English-speaking, does not reflect the racial and cultural diversity of state residents and efforts must be made to close this gap, according to a 2021 report by the Mental Health Association of Rhode Island.
Rhode Island College’s School of Social Work has been awarded a four-year U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration grant bringing in $650,000 in the first year with a possibility of renewal for another three years, totaling $2.6 million.
Rhode Island College (RIC), the Rhode Island College Foundation, the Rhode Island Foundation and the Rhode Island Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP-RI) have partnered to create a Fundraising Apprenticeship Specialization through the Certificate of Graduate Studies program at the School of Social Work (SSW). The specialization is intended to develop a pipeline of diverse fundraising professionals. The Rhode Island Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to fund the pilot program.
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