Family Development

Family Development Program

The Family Development Program is a seamless array of high quality, coordinated family development services including: intake and screening; comprehensive assessment; effective system of goal setting for families with reportable outcome measures; coordination of community services; advocacy; ongoing monitoring and assessment and uniform termination and discharge procedures.

The Family Development Director coordinates with the Clinical Director and Family Advocate Leaders steps to identify the individual and group training needs of family advocate staff.

The following components are included in the Family Development Program:

•  Senior Service Family Advocates
• Head Start and Social Services Family Advocates serving Newport County, Bristol County and East Providence

For further information please contact:
Carolyn Pellegrino
Family Development Director
at (401) 437-0006, x150

Family Service Collaboration Project

A collaboration with the Newport School District

The goal of the Family Service Collaboration Project is to build family, school and community partnerships that support children's learning and adjustments to school. There are five Family Service Coordinators employed by East Bay Community Action Program that are housed at the following elementary schools:

Newport Public Schools:

• Carey Elementary School
• Coggeshall Elementary School
• Cranston Calvert Elementary School
• Sullivan Elementary School
• Underwood Elementary School

Family Service Coordinators offer home visiting, promotion of activities to enhance family literacy and coordination of local social services, In addition, Family Service Coordinators provide activities to help insure that children and families have a smooth transition from the preschool years to the early elementary grades and from the elementary grades to middle school.

For further information on the Family Service Collaboration Project,
please contact: Karen Izzo
                         Social Services Director
                         19 Broadway
                         Newport, RI 02840
                         Telephone: (401) 847-7821, x205