Justice Resource Institute has opened an office for its Community-Based Services programs at Howland Place, 651 Orchard St.

JRI is excited to announce that several members of our staff have been awarded scholarships to undertake studies for their master’s degrees at Massachusetts colleges and universities.

Jenese Brownhill, Program Director of the SMART Team at JRI, is featured in this article in Social Work Today about how social workers are reemerging in the Juvenile Justice system as it shifts from a punitive to a protective approach.

Read the full article in Social Work Today.

Thank you Camp InSPURation! Kids between the ages of 12 and 16 at Camp InSPURation built an 8 foot by 10 foot play house for Children's Friend and Family Services, a division of JRI. The house was delivered to CFFS in Salem on Friday.

Here are a few quotes from the kids who helped build the playhouse:

“It wasn’t too difficult. When you break it down into little steps, the little steps are easy.”

“It took a while, but when you do one thing at a time it all comes together.”

FALL RIVER, MA — The Children’s Advocacy Center of Bristol County, a program of Justice Resource Institute, has received a $250,000 grant from the Bristol County Savings Bank to help create a new agency site to carry out their mission.

Michelle Loranger, Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County wrote this op-ed about why earmarks sometimes make sense.  Read the full article in Commonwealth Magazine on earmarks for the Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County.

JRI, a provider of trauma-informed care to children and families in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, has named Clinton resident Kerry-Ann Williams, M.D. to the position of medical director of children’s residential programming in Massachusetts.

The Boston Business Journal named Bisser Dokov as CFO of the Year in the Nonprofit Category.  Bisser was honored at a luncheon at the Seaport Hotel on July 24th.

Read the full article.

The Boston Business Journal named Bisser Dokov as CFO of the Year in the Nonprofit Category.  Bisser was honored at a luncheon at the Seaport Hotel on July 24th.

Read the full article.

Nearly two dozen Meadowridge Academy students were honored at an awards ceremony held June 18 at the Swansea campus.

Most of the academy’s 34 students, as well as parents, were present for the event, which celebrated academic, athletic and other achievements at the therapeutic residential school. In addition to classroom instruction, the academy provides psychological and emotional support and life skills training for youths, grades 6 through 12.