Online Publications & Resources

Engaging Cooperation through Choice and Preference

This Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network newsletter provides a set of tips, organized into a planning guide, to help a person succeed at tasks they don't want to do.

Essential Tools: Community Resource Mapping

This handbook provides step-by-step instructions on understanding, planning and coordinating community resources that support the transition of youth with disabilities into adult life.

Find, Choose and Keep Great DSPs

This publication is a toolkit for people with disabilities looking for quality, caring and committed direct support professionals.

Finding Common Ground: Working Together to Resolve Behavioral

This Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network newsletter discusses how to maximize collaboration to create behavior support plans that incorporate multiple perspectives and can be adapted across environments.

Foundations of Coaching in Early Childhood

Foundations of Coaching in Early Childhood is a video series produced by Greater Hartford Gives Foundation (formerly Hartford Foundation for Public Giving), Connecticut’s Office of Early Childhood, and other partners in 2019.

Free Dental Clinics in Rhode Island

This site allows users to find clinics in their city or town that provide free, low-cost or slicing-scale dental services.

Friends: Connecting People with Disabilities and Community Members: A Manual for Families

Angela Novak Amado, Ph.D., wrote this manual to help people with disabilities increase community membership and belonging, and promote relationships with community members.

Got Transition®

Got Transition®, the national resource center on health care transition (HCT) aims to help youth and young adults move from pediatric to adult health care.

Governor's Workforce Board

The Governor’s Workforce Board is Rhode Island’s primary policy-making body on workforce development matters. It helps Rhode Islanders find a job and build a career, while helping employers meet their demand for talent.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Providence and East Bay

Founded in 1987, this affiliate serves Providence, Pawtucket, North Providence, Central Falls, East Providence, Barrington, Warren, Bristol, Portsmouth, Middletown, Newport, Jamestown, Tiverton and Little Compton.

Habitat for Humanity West Bay and Northern Rhode Island

This affiliate began 1995 in the West Bay area and expanded into the northern Rhode Island area in 2000. This affiliate serves Burrillville, Coventry, Cranston, Cumberland, East Greenwich, Foster, Glocester, Johnston, Lincoln, North Scituate, Smithfield, Warwick, West Greenwich, West Warwick and Woonsocket.

Hands Land

Hands Land is a nonprofit organization run by deaf individuals who are passionate about promoting early language development in young children and teaches teaches rhyming and rhythm using ASL.

HealthSourceRI

The Rhode Island Department of Human Services partners with HealthSource RI to enroll individuals and families in health care and health and human service programs. Information on employer resources is also available.

Helen Keller National Center for Deafblind Youths and Adults

The center provides services to youth and adults who are deafblind.

Helen Sanderson Associates - Person-Centered Thinking tools

This site offers resources and training programs on topics such as one-page profiles, care and support planning, person-centered thinking tools and working together for change.

Helping Our Loved Ones Prosper: Supporting Social Networking to Build Careers

This article addresses the role parents and family members can play in helping a person with a disability create connection and build a social network for success in life.

Here's to Your Student's Future! A Parent's Guide to Transition Planning

This guide helps parents who have students ages 14 to 21 with disabilities get started with transition planning to prepare for life after high school.

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Home and Community Positive Behavior Support Network (HCPBS)

This website offers resources related to planning and implementing positive behavior support interventions. It includes manuals, workbooks, case examples and stories, planning tools and templates, and other practical materials.

Home Health Agencies

The Rhode Island Department of Health lists agencies providing home nursing services and home care services such as assistance with daily living and care, housekeeping, shopping and more.

Home Health Smith

This company based in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, provides home modifications including stair lift, ramps, lifts and overall safety in the home.