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Each year, NAFI recognizes and celebrates employees for the outstanding work they do in providing the highest level of innovative human and social services to individuals and families. Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI operations in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, recently announced this year’s award winners. (Also see the stories on the Connecticut winners and New […]

NAFI Rhode Island has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2022 honor by The Boston Globe Top Workplace. NAFI RI Executive Director Lynn Bishop and her leadership team also guide operations in Connecticut and New York, and staff from across the tri-state alliance participated in the survey that led to the Top Workplaces honor for NAFI RI. The list of […]

NAFI Connecticut, Inc. has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2022 honor by The Hearst Connecticut Top Workplaces. NAFI CT Executive Director Lynn Bishop and her leadership team also guide operations in Rhode Island and New York, and staff from across the cluster participated in the survey that led to the Top Workplaces honor for NAFI CT. The list of […]

As of August 11th, our new address isNAFI RI 1775 Bald Hill Rd. Unit 1. Warwick, RI. 02886

The NAFI Connecticut, Inc., NAFI Rhode Island, and NAFI New York community recently honored the 2021 Spirit of the Community Award winners as part of a virtual Town Hall meeting. Joseph Matcham, a foster care Independent Living Specialist for NAFI NY, received a Spirit of the Community Award “for all that we love about you.” […]

NAFI Rhode Island’s Main Street group home had a magical outcome in 2021. “I’ve been here 28 years and I’d have to say it was one of the most amazing situations I’ve ever seen,” said Karen Cox, Program Director for NAFI Main Street. Here’s how the situation unfolded. A young man with Asperger syndrome who […]

Editor’s Note: Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York, shared this end of the year holiday message with colleagues, and we would like to share it with you. Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and joyful holidays and a hopeful 2022! Dear colleagues of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York: […]

Each year, NAFI recognizes and celebrates employees for the outstanding work they do in providing the highest level of innovative human and social services to individuals and families. Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI operations in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, recently announced this year’s award winners. (Also see the stories on the Connecticut winners and New York honorees.) […]

NAFI Rhode Island has been buoyed by more than $150,000 in recent grants as part of nearly $212,000 in funding for the three-state NAFI cluster guided by NAFI Connecticut, Inc. The grants include: $100,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation to support the COVID-related telehealth initiative $56,884 from The Champlin Foundation to purchase generators for two residential programs in Rhode […]

NAFI Rhode Island, the nonprofit agency that provides juvenile justice, mental and behavioral health and family support programs, is working on a project to renovate and upgrade its Main Street Group Home in historic Warren. “We realize our neighbors in Warren value the historic nature of the property and have concerns about the condition of the exterior, […]

 NAFI celebrates the amazing work its employees do for their communities in an awards ceremony each year recognizing those who go above and beyond the call of duty. This year, the ceremony had to be conducted remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions. NAFI’s Normative Community Approach creates a culture where people work together to achieve […]

Dear NAFI/NFI staff and family: As a very challenging 2020 comes to an end, let our holiday season be filled with gratitude for the extraordinary commitment and work you have done to ensure the wellbeing of consumers — and each other. You have taken on the added demands of the pandemic in ways that we couldn’t […]

Editor’s Note: Lynn Bishop, Executive Director of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York, shared the following end of the year holiday message with colleagues, and we would like to share it with you. Wishing everyone a safe, healthy, and joyful holidays and a hopeful and prosperous 2021!   Dear colleagues of NAFI Connecticut, Rhode […]

NAFI staff members in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York have a tradition of sharing “gratitude grams” with one another each year during the Thanksgiving season. We highlight the messages of appreciation on social media, and this year we began sharing some of them on the website, too. Here’s the second batch, and make sure […]

Carnevale Project Turkey has been a holiday tradition for nearly 30 years and NAFI staff and volunteers in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York navigated the challenges of COVID-19 this year to make sure families received the extra boost they needed to make the holiday special. In Rhode Island, where Carnevale Project Turkey originated, NAFI […]

Each year, during the Thanksgiving season, we invite our employees to share “gratitude grams” with one another. These messages of appreciation provide a glimpse into the incredible support and commitment our employees demonstrate all year long in carrying out the vital and vibrant human services mission of the NAFI operations in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and […]

Two weeks prior to Christmas in 2016, Candace Johndrow, longtime project manager at Family Service of Rhode Island and a newly licensed foster parent, received a call from the North American Family Institute asking her to take the now 16-year-old girl in for respite – just for a few weeks – because they did not […]

As we navigate the crisis created by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it’s vitally  important to stay connected, to create a sense of unity even amid the challenges of social distancing—and to interact in online forums like this one as a community of compassionate, caring citizens with the common goal of making the world around us […]

Jennifer Raphael-Guzman, Director of the Ridge Street group home for adolescent boys in Pawtucket, R.I., received the NAFI Rhode Island Spirit of the Community award at the North American Family Institute’s recent annual conference. The Program Spirit Of The Community Award was given to NAFI Rhode Island’s foster care Professional Parent Program. “The selfless and […]

Project Turkey has had a significant impact on our agency.  Jerry Carnevale, the man who created and implemented this great tradition over the past 27 years, retired from our agency.  His tenure, vision and motivation around this event is ingrained in the culture of our agency and will continue each year.  Therefore, NAFI is pleased […]