988 Press Conference & Tour with Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse

988 Press Conference & Tour with Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse

Join us for a press conference and tour of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

By BHHP

Date and time

Monday, May 20 · 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

Location

971 Waterman Ave

971 Waterman Avenue East Providence, RI 02914

About this event

  • 1 hour

Join us for a press conference and tour of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Rhode Island Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse will be speaking at this "May is Mental Health Month" event to highlight the services of 988 and the BH Link. We will be unveiling the new 988 public awareness campaign that will be launching in June.

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The Housing First Training Group was formed in 2017 under the CABHI (Cooperative Agreement to Benefit Homeless Individuals) Grant - a project of SAMSHA and BHDDH. CABHI brought together four homeless service providers – Amos House, Crossroads, House of Hope and Better Lives (formerly PICA) in partnership with four behavioral health providers – Community Care Alliance, Newport Mental Health, The Providence Center and Thrive Behavioral Health to better coordinate, cooperate and serve those homeless individuals with substance use and/or mental health disorders.

Thanks to the CABHI funding, over 125 trainings were held in a two year span. When the CABHI grant (and funding) ended, the CABHI partners wanted to ensure that these important best practice trainings continued. The training group continued to meet, work and host trainings. In 2020, the group was renamed the Behavioral Health & Homelessness Prevention Training Group (BHHP) and has recently received BHDDH funds to continue to host trainings.