Children’s Friend & Service
Children’s Friend & Service
401-276-4300
https://www.cfsri.org/
Main Office
Providence
RI
Children’s Friend & Service has extensive programs to support families in Rhode Island. Please see website for details.
Programs include:
Early Head Start
Head Start
Child Care
Adoption Support and Preservation
Foster Care
Fatherhood Initiatives
Kids Connect Agency
Provider of Family Care Community Partnerships FCCP
Home Visiting Programs including:
First Connections
First Connections at Children’s Friend provides free, voluntary, confidential home visits in Central Falls, Cranston, Pawtucket and Providence to pregnant women and families with young children, birth to age three.
Healthy Families America
Healthy Families America is a national evidence-based maternal and child home visiting program that provides free, voluntary, confidential services. The program pairs expectant mothers or families with newborns with a Family Support Worker, who provides home visiting services to the family and their child until the child’s fourth birthday.
Nurse-Family Partnership is a national evidence-based maternal and child home visiting program that provides free, voluntary, confidential services to expectant first-time mothers and then their newborns. The program pairs expectant mothers with a registered nurse, who provides intensive home visiting services to the mother and her child until the child’s second birthday.
Women, Infants and Children Nutrition Program
WIC offices have temporarily moved to 153 Summer Street in Providence. Please call ahead to check hours. 401.752.7781
Early Intervention at Children’s Friend is listed separately in the directory.
Children’s Friend provides a comprehensive array of social services that strengthen families, are culturally relevant and support the healthy development of children.
Across Rhode Island, our staff provides services to help over 31,488 individuals annually.
Sites in Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls, we provide a broad array of services for children and families.