Bradley Hospital Research Fair for Families of Children with Special Needs, September 27

Next Thursday, September 27, from 6:00-8:00pm, Bradley Hospital in East Providence will host a resource fair for families with children who have special needs. This will take place in the Ruggles Gymnasium at Bradley Hospital, 1011 Veterans Memorial Parkway in East Providence. More information is available here.


Representatives from more than 50 statewide mental health advocacy, support and information organizations will be on hand to offer details about services and resources available for parents, families, teachers, and children and adolescents with special mental health needs.

Registration is required. Please call Chris Brown at 401-432-120 to register.

Broadband Rhode Island Digital Literacy Program

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Earlier this year, here, I wrote about the possibilities of school-based digital learning and the challenges that inequitable access to technological resources and skills pose to those possibilities.

Since then, the Broadband Rhode Island Digital Literacy program has gotten off the ground. Found online at http://literacy.broadband.ri.gov/, the BBRI Digital Literacy program aims to educate Rhode Islanders who lack access to and information about technology through a freely available curriculum, volunteer instructors, and face-to-face classes based in communities and locations where the need for digital literacy education is highest.

You may want to take a class, become an instructor, or connect an organization that you're a part of with BBRI's work. I am not currently involved personally, but think that the initiative is a great addition to our state's education resources. Check it out and help spread the word.