JRI employees are taking on extra duties to support their clients and coworkers during the COVID-19 outbreak.

To the extended JRI community: 

Our entire agency has rallied around the programs where the greatest stress has been: 24-7 settings for kids and adults. Community based programs have “adopted” their residential counterparts and are sending support, both material and spiritual. 

Community-based and day school programs have embraced remote learning and telehealth, doing our best to continue to support students, families, and adults in need. 

Earlier today, Andy Pond asked JRI employees who are currently working from home to consider volunteering to pick up and deliver supplies to our central locations and our congregate care programs.

As everyone knows, the situation re: COVID-19 has been changing daily, sometimes hourly. And it is a time of great anxiety for all of us, no matter if we are parents, counselors, clinicians, or leaders. But at JRI, we have a tremendous team of managers, clinicians, teachers and counselors who are working flat out to ensure continuity of care.

Trot On provides psychotherapy services to youth, young adults and their families. We serve individuals who struggle with social, emotional and behavioral challenges, and who have complex trauma histories. We offer counselling for individuals struggling with substance use or who have risk factors for substance use.

Episode 1 - Our Mission

JRI is one of the largest social justice/human services agencies in New England, serving between 20,000 and 25,000 people each year in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Nearly 70 percent of those served by JRI (Justice Resource Institute) are children and families in need of shelter, full-time residential services, mental health care, help for HIV/AIDS, support for transgendered youth, and a myriad of other challenges.

Tania Vitorino has been promoted to senior division director of JRI’s Community-Based Services Division (CBS).

In addition to the CBS programs she currently oversees in Yarmouth Port, New Bedford, and Jamaica Plain, she will now oversee the Children's Friend & Family Services division’s CBS programs in Gloucester, Salem, Lynn and Lawrence. 

IF YOUR CHILD or grandchild was being taught math or science with a 1999 curriculum, would you stand for it?  Read the full article in CommonWealth, written by John Gatto, Senior Vice President of Community Health at JRI and Corey Prachniak-Rincón, Program Director at JRI and Director of the Massachusetts Commission for LGBTQ Youth.

Read the full article from Michelle Loranger, Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County, a program of JRI

Children's Advocacy Center of Bristol County held their annual legislative breakfast on January 31, 2020.  Read the article to get a recap of the event.