Family Based | Child_Welfare | Children Youth | Adolescents | RITS | General
Program: Project Hope
Contact: Jennifer Irish
Phone: 528-3759
Email: Jennifer.Irish@dcyf.ri.gov
Description: Project Hope provides transition services to incarcerated youth with serious emotional disturbances returning to the community. It is administered at the state level by the Department for children, Youth and Families’ Division of Children’s Behavioral Health and Education. The program recognizes the importance of advocacy for strength based practices and family involvement in decision making. It incorporates key program elements for documented best practices in both Children’s Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Systems to address the mulitple needs of adjudicated youth. A youth involved with Project Hope receives intensive community-based services which can include any of the following: family service coordination; mentoring; job and life skills development; care management; crisis intervention; therapeutic recreational acitivites; educational advocacy; tracking and other non-traditional services as requested by the youth and family.
- Comprehensive Emergency Services (CES)
- Families Together Therapeutic Visitations
- Family Networks Programs
- Parent Aides
- Parent Education Program
- Project Connect
- Project Early Start
- Project Family
- Care Management Teams
- Certified Clinicians
- Child and Adolescent Services System Program (CASSP)
- Children's Intensive Services (CIS)
- Diagnostic Assessment Services
- Education Services
- Prevention Children's Trust Fund
- Purchase of Service
- Residential Counseling Centers
- Residential Treatment
- Higher Education Grant
- Life Skills Program
- Outreach & Tracking
- Project Hope
- Safe Streets
- Teen Grant
- Youth Diversionary Program
