Family Service Of Rhode Island, Inc.

Family Service Of Rhode Island, Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit based in Providence, Rhode Island, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on behavioral health, youth services, homelessness prevention, and trauma-informed care delivery, with 35% of recent awards as prime grants and 65% as sub-recipient awards under state and local prime grantees. The organization has received $59.4 million in combined federal obligations across 63 awards spanning two decades, with accelerating activity — four prime grants in 2022 rising to seventeen awards (prime and sub combined) in 2025.

Family Service Of Rhode Island's capability portfolio centers on trauma-informed clinical and social services delivered through multiple program lines. The organization operates the GO TEAM program, a 24/7/365 co-response model deploying bilingual (English/Spanish/Portuguese) clinicians and social workers alongside police officers in Providence, Central Falls, and Pawtucket to provide immediate crisis intervention and mental health support at crime scenes involving children and youth. Recent prime grants exemplify this scope: a $123,043 Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program award from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (December 1, 2025, through November 30, 2026) funds permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, transitional housing, supportive services, and homelessness prevention for youth under age 24; a three-year Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Cooperative Agreement (October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2027) supports a GO TEAM school violence prevention project in partnership with the Central Falls Rhode Island School District, delivering trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, trauma systems therapy, and evidence-based practices to at-risk youth; a five-year SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services grant (December 31, 2022, through September 29, 2026) funds the Children's Treatment and Recovery Center to trauma-screen 3,000 at-risk children, certify 64 therapists in evidence-based practices, and educate 3,000 child-serving professionals statewide. The organization also operates a federally certified community behavioral health clinic (CCBHC) at 55 Hope Street, with capital improvement funding from community project congressionally directed spending (awarded September 30, 2024) to expand capacity through an ADA-compliant elevator and additional clinical office space, and a SAMHSA Center for Mental Health Services improvement and advancement grant (September 30, 2023, through September 29, 2027) to expand 24/7 access to behavioral health services, substance use disorder treatment, and physical healthcare, with targeted outreach to monolingual Spanish-speaking communities representing approximately 50% of the clinic's service population.

Customer concentration is dominated by health and human services funding agencies. The top five funding lines account for 49% of awards: the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration leads with 10 awards, followed by HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development (7 awards), HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (6 awards), Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 (4 awards), and SAMHSA (4 awards). Sub-recipient activity flows predominantly through state prime grantees — the Rhode Island Department of Health places the majority of sub-awards across maternal and child health, HIV prevention and testing, health equity zones, home visiting services, and immunization programs — along with the City of Providence (housing information services), Providence Police Department (bilingual liaison services), and Rhode Island Department of Public Safety. Combined federal obligations across the top five funding streams are not separately itemized in the source, but the portfolio shows significant concentration in health and behavioral health services to Rhode Island's low-income and communities-of-color populations, particularly in Providence, Central Falls, and Pawtucket.

Four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure. Activity trajectory accelerated from 2022 to 2025, with recent awards reflecting the organization's expanding federal footprint in trauma-informed youth services, homelessness prevention, and behavioral health infrastructure. The organization does not hold seats on federal government-wide acquisition contracts or blanket purchase agreements; all work flows through HUD Continuum of Care grants, HHS block grants and categorical programs (SAMHSA, CDC, HRSA), EPA environmental health funding, and Department of Justice grant programs, with the majority routed as sub-awards from state health departments and local municipalities.