Kent Center changes name to better reflect behavioral health mission

Posted 9/20/18

The Kent Center for Human and Organizational Development, Inc. and Riverwood Mental Health Services, which merged in 2017, unveiled its new name, “Thrive Behavioral Health” this week.

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Kent Center changes name to better reflect behavioral health mission

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The Kent Center for Human and Organizational Development, Inc. and Riverwood Mental Health Services, which merged in 2017, unveiled its new name, “Thrive Behavioral Health” this week.

“Due to the merger, our organization has grown well beyond the borders of Kent County,” said Thrive Behavioral Health’s President and CEO Daniel Kubas-Meyer. “It was our goal to come up with a name that spoke directly to our core mission: to provide individuals suffering from behavioral health issues with the tools they require to thrive.”

Kubas-Meyer continued: “While we’ve changed our name, we have not changed the quality of care we provide to our clients. Our dedicated staff will continue to give Rhode Islanders the support they need to improve their quality of life.”

Thrive Behavioral Health is a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive human service organization with the capacity to customize services to best address the needs of the people in the community. Its objectives are to integrate services, remove systemic barriers, explore innovative practices, and produce positive outcomes in collaboration with both the people it serves and other providers in the community.

Thrive provides behavioral health services, community support programs, and youth and family services throughout Rhode Island with offices located in Warwick, Providence, and Warren. Its specialty services include:

l Hillsgrove House Clubhouse, which offers a work-ordered day program to people with severe and persistent mental illness;

l The Eleanor Briggs School, which provides K-12 special educational services for students who require emotional, behavioral, and mental health support; and its

l SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) Program, which increases access to disability income benefit programs administered by the Social Security Administration to adults who are experiencing (or at risk of) homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder.

Thrive Behavioral Health has provided services in Rhode Island since 1976. It currently offers comprehensive behavioral healthcare programs and services annually to over 4,000 children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. Our team is committed to improving clients’ quality of life through an extensive range of community-based and outpatient mental health, substance use, educational, and housing services that are recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and family-focused. Thrive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation whose programs are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. 

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