2024 BlueAngel Community Health grantees
Adoption Rhode Island (Providence) - A youth development specialist from Adoption Rhode Island will be located at Copley Chambers, an affordable housing project of 26 newly developed units for youth and young adults with past foster care experience who are facing homelessness or housing insecurity. The specialist will be part of an integrated approach to supportive service delivery for residents in collaboration with other co-located partners.
Child & Family Services of Newport County - Child & Family’s Supportive Housing Program in Newport provides safe, secure housing to homeless families that come from throughout the state. Through participation in this program, parents are provided with wraparound case management and access to a continuum of care that provides the resources necessary for them to secure permanent housing and improve the overall health and well-being of their families.
Foster Forward - Utilizing a Housing First approach to house youth/young adults ages 18 to 24 who are experiencing housing instability and homelessness and are at-risk of system involvement. The grant will fund the Your Way Home program, a short-term crisis intervention that provides rental assistance and case management services.
House of Hope CDC – Preserve and upgrade 20 units of existing permanent affordable housing units in Warwick for men, women, and children and, in collaboration with Amenity Aid, promote community health through the distribution of hygiene supplies across the state. House of Hope CDC Street outreach teams will use the hygiene kits as a trust-building engagement tool.
Jonnycake Center for Hope (South Kingstown) - The center will renovate three of the 15 to 19 units of service-enriched housing it plans to offer to local, low-income families experiencing unstable and/or unaffordable housing. [The Center acquired five multi-unit buildings from two other nonprofits in the area in 2021].
Project Weber/RENEW - Supports housing for people who have substance use disorder and people in early recovery, including assistance with expungement of criminal records and advocacy and education at the state level on policies and practices around Housing First and harm reduction models.
South County Habitat for Humanity (Charlestown) – Funding will pay for materials for a project to build a neighborhood of seven single-family Habitat homes in Hopkinton. CharihoTech students will take part in construction for an experiential education opportunity outside of the classroom.
Thundermist Healthcare Center – Housing support specialists work in partnership with people who are or are in danger of becoming unhoused, to build resources that promote independence, ensure that they can meet the obligations of tenancy, and successfully obtain and maintain housing. Specialists guide patients through paperwork and connect them to resources for legal and financial support to gain or retain permanent housing.
West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation (Providence) - Funding will be used to increase the agency’s capacity to offer homebuyer education and foreclosure prevention services in Providence to monolingual Spanish speaking first-time homebuyers and homeowners at risk of foreclosure. The curriculum being used to facilitate the course was developed by the Housing Network of Rhode Island and approved by HUD.
Westbay Community Action, Inc. (Warwick) – Westbay will expand upon its Hoarding Intervention Response and Evaluation (HIRE) program, which provides services to Kent County residents who are at-risk for engaging in hoarding behavior or who are already engaging in hoarding behavior. The goal is to prevent long term health and safety hazards and evictions.