Tides Family Services is a not-for-profit social service agency
operating in the tradition of the De LaSalle Christian Brothers.
Since 1983, Tides has committed its resources to addressing the
needs of Rhode Island's most at-risk children. Tides is a non-residential,
alternative program for wayward, truant and adjudicated youth, ages 9-21.
Our mission is to provide the neediest youths and their families with the services they need at a critical time of their lives and to promote family preservation and support of youth within their communities through outreach, tracking, home visits, education, court advocacy and other non-traditional services.
And to uphold the Christian Brothers mission: To touch the lives of the young and their familiesand offer our presence and service for the authentic human developmentof those entrusted to our care.
An agency without walls
Tides energetic and dedicated staff of outreach workers, social
workers, and clinicians meet the children where they are: In the
streets, the schools, Family Court, their homes, at the neighborhood basketball
courts, wherever kids gather, Tides follows.Tides responds to this hard-to-serve, at-risk population of young people in the communities of Central Falls, Coventry, Pawtucket, Providence, Warwick, West Warwick and Woonsocket, through prevention and intervention programs including Tides Learning Center, Tides Outreach Project, Youth New Futures, Day Reporting Center, Youth Diversion, and the Latino Outreach Project.
Collaborations and partnerships with many community-based agencies connect Tides with the larger community and provide the many services needed to help successfully reconnect children with their schools and their families.
A voice for the voiceless
These are the youngsters found on the street corners of Rhode Island's poorest neighborhoods. These are the boys and girls who sit in the back of the classrooms, often overlooked and ignored. These are the pre-teens and teenagers teetering on the brink of disillusion and hopelessness. These are the invisible children:
Unheard. Unseen. Ignored. Until they commit one too many crimes that bring them before Family Court. Or abuse drugs one too many times and die. Or bound in pain too difficult to bear, choose suicide.
1,027
 | "We take over when the schools give up, because we never give up on a kid ...never." |
90 %
of males, ages 16-21, are referred from probation and training schools
50 %
of females, ages 12-15, are enrolled in Early Intervention
88.2 %
successfully completed program
124,373
days of direct service were delivered by Tides staff during the last program year
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