What Sets Us Apart

• The Providence Center's Crisis Stabilization Unit is the only one of its kind in Providence, Rhode Island. The Unit provides specialized care to stabilize patients experiencing an acute psychiatric and/or substance abuse crisis. Patients receive medical, educational and therapeutic services designed to support their individual needs and ensure a successful transition back to the community.
• The Providence Center's Fit2Bhealthy program is the only program in the state of Rhode Island with a behavioral health component designed to fight childhood obesity. The 16-week program for children ages 6 to 12 engages the whole family in making healthy, long-lasting changes to achieve better physical and behavioral health.
• InSHAPE is a wellness program that brings together community partners and specialists in the areas of health, exercise and nutrition to provide people with severe mental illness with physical fitness and behavioral health support.
• The Providence Center's Early Childhood Institute was the first therapeutic day care facility in Rhode Island to help children with psychiatric and emotional problems and is a model for preschool and therapeutic day treatment programs throughout New England.
• The Providence Center School has been providing special education services to Rhode Island students for over 20 years.
• The Providence Center is one of three Rhode Island providers of Multisystemic Therapy, an evidence-based intensive family and community-based treatment for youth with complex clinical, social and educational challenges.
• The Providence Center's Latino Team is the only bilingual, bicultural team targeted to serve the mental health needs of the Latino community.
• The Providence Center's Electronic Medical Record gives physicians and clinicians secure access to their clients' records twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from any location using an Internet-connected browser.
• The Providence Center has integrated commercial Internet-based electronic prescribing with its clinical information systems to improve efficiencies and enhance the quality of care provided to our clients.