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Resource Navigation
Identify relevant Rhode Island programs, organize questions, and prepare for referrals or applications.
Explore ResourcesRhode Island resource navigation
One conversation can make the next step clearer.
Community Connect RI helps people organize what they need, understand their options, and connect with practical resources—without judgment or unnecessary runaround.
One Conversation.Every Resource.Every Person.
Clear scope, honest guidance.
We currently provide non-clinical education, peer-centered support, and resource navigation. We do not provide emergency response, diagnosis, psychotherapy, or licensed treatment.
Need immediate help? Use the right line for the situation.
211 Rhode Island resources 988 Mental health or suicide crisis 911 Immediate danger or emergencyWhat we do now
Support that starts with the person—not the paperwork.
Whether the need is housing, food, transportation, benefits, employment, recovery support, or another life barrier, we help make the next move easier to understand.
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Peer-Centered Support
Encouragement, practical goal planning, self-advocacy support, and recovery-oriented connection grounded in dignity and choice.
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Practical Education
Simple guides and lessons that build everyday skills, housing stability, follow-through, and confidence.
Open the Guide LibraryHow Community Connect works
Plan the work. Then work the plan.
You do not need to solve everything at once. We start with what matters now and build a sequence that feels possible.
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Talk It Through
Share the situation, immediate concerns, and what stability looks like to you.
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Build the Roadmap
Sort priorities, identify resources, and write down practical next steps.
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Connect & Follow Up
Prepare to contact programs, self-advocate, and keep the plan moving.
Free Community Connect guides
Useful information you can keep, share, and act on.
Our guides turn common challenges into checklists, routines, and questions people can use on their own or with a housing or support program.
View All GuidesRhode Island Resource Roadmap
A practical starting point for housing, food, transportation, documents, benefits, employment, and support services.
Download the roadmapHome Stability Guide
Everyday routines for cleaning, laundry, budgeting, communication, safety, wellness, and caring for a home.
Download the guideBenefits and Documents Organizer
Track identification, applications, missing records, notices, deadlines, renewals, and next steps without writing down full sensitive numbers.
Download the organizerFor housing and community programs
Education that can support long-term housing success.
Community Connect RI is developing a Housing Stability Foundations lesson and certificate option covering home care, routines, communication, budgeting, safety, wellness, and help-seeking.
Program partnerships in development
Housing providers can contact us to discuss a future pilot or educational partnership. Any paid arrangement would be based on an organization agreement—not a promise of insurance reimbursement.
Discuss a PartnershipBuilt responsibly
Growing the network without overpromising.
Recovery housing, clinical counseling, Community Health Worker services, outpatient care, and expanded credentialed programs remain future goals—not current services.
Available now
Resource navigation, practical education, peer-centered planning, community connections, and non-urgent inquiries.
In development
See the Future Vision
Expanded recovery support, housing partnerships, CHW services, clinical programs, and a secure client platform.
Start where you are
What would make your next step easier?
Send a non-urgent inquiry and tell us what you are trying to navigate.