Benefits Hub
The Benefits Hub offers students basic needs assistance grounded in respect, trust, and equity.
We're Here to Help
The Benefits Hub offers students basic needs assistance grounded in respect, trust, and equity. If you are couch surfing, need food, having trouble paying a bill, or simply don't know where to get a CCRI question answered, we're here for you.
CCRI & United Way of RI:
CCRI has partnered with United Way of Rhode Island to expanding access to essential
community resources for students. This collaboration underscores CCRI’s ongoing commitment
to removing barriers to student success and ensuring students have the support they
need to thrive both in and out of the classroom. Through this partnership, CCRI students
will have on-campus, in-person access to United Way and the wide range of essential
services it connects Rhode Islanders with, including housing and financial assistance,
food security programs, mental health resources, childcare support, career development
opportunities, and more.
The satellite office is staffed by a trained outreach specialist from United Way who assists students in navigating the community resources available, helping them with the support they need to stay on track academically and achieve their goals.
Contact Information (for non academic related questions like gas, housing, electric etc):
Harper Rhodes
Program Coordinator
Coordination Center for Unite RI
- Email: [email protected]
- Location: Knight Campus Room 0022
Hours of Operation:
- Tuesdays: 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Fridays: 10 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
We're Here to Help
The Benefits Hub offers students basic needs assistance grounded in respect, trust, and equity. If you are couch surfing, need food, having trouble paying a bill, or simply don't know where to get a CCRI question answered, we're here for you.
CCRI & United Way of RI:
CCRI has partnered with United Way of Rhode Island to expanding access to essential
community resources for students. This collaboration underscores CCRI’s ongoing commitment
to removing barriers to student success and ensuring students have the support they
need to thrive both in and out of the classroom. Through this partnership, CCRI students
will have on-campus, in-person access to United Way and the wide range of essential
services it connects Rhode Islanders with, including housing and financial assistance,
food security programs, mental health resources, childcare support, career development
opportunities, and more.
The satellite office is staffed by a trained outreach specialist from United Way who assists students in navigating the community resources available, helping them with the support they need to stay on track academically and achieve their goals.
Contact Information (for non academic related questions like gas, housing, electric etc):
Harper Rhodes
Program Coordinator
Coordination Center for Unite RI
- Email: [email protected]
- Location: Knight Campus Room 0022
Hours of Operation:
- Tuesdays: 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
- Fridays: 10 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Services
Internal Resources
For students who are struggling with mid day meals. Students may use their student ID card to purchase meals on any one of our campus cafeterias.
Please email [email protected] with your legal first and last name as well as your student ID number.
For students in need of food support outside of school. Please fill out the form below:
External Resources
- Find food pantries in your community: https://rifoodbank.org/find-food/
- Get groceries once a week for $6: https://projecthandup.net/#home
- Apply for SNAP (food stamp) benefits by emailing [email protected] or https://dhs.ri.gov/programs-and-services/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/supplemental-nutrition
- Free hot breakfast and/or lunch: https://amoshouse.com/
- Free meals: https://mcauleyri.org/mcauley-house/
- If you are currently homeless or within 14 days of being so: 401-277-4316 https://www.cesri.info
- Recovery Housing: https://www.ribhopenbeds.org/recovery-housing#:~:text=Please%20contact%20the%20Certified%20Recovery,942%2DSTOP%20(7867).&text=Hope%20Recovery%20Network%20Inc.,-Recovery%20Housing%20(Men
- Student Rentals:
- Low Income Heating Assistance Program, Household Water Assistance Program, Weatherization
Program, Lead Abatement Program - The local Community Action Agency in your area of
the state:
- Blackstone Valley Community Action Agency: http://bvcap.org/energy-weatherization/
- Community Action Partnership of Providence County: https://cappri.org/
- Community Care Alliance (Woonsocket): https://www.communitycareri.org/ProgramsServices/BasicNeedsAssistance.aspx
- Comprehensive Community Action Program (Cranston and beyond): https://www.comcap.org/services/food-housing/#energy-assistance
- Westbay Community Action: https://westbaycap.org/programs/#home-and-utilities
- Eastbay Community Action: https://www.ebcap.org/programs/heating-and-energy/
- Tri-Town Community Action Agency (Northern and Southern): https://www.tricountyri.org/services/fuel-assistance-weatherization/
- Health Insurance: https://healthyrhode.ri.gov/
- Healthcare for the uninsured:
- RI Free Clinic: (401) 274-6347, [email protected]
- Clinica Esperanza: https://www.aplacetobehealthy.org/
- CCRI Student MH Counseling (24/7): https://www.ccri.edu/wellness/myssp-student.html
- Crisis MH (24/7) – BH Link: (401) 414-5465
- Suicide Prevention Hotline (24/7): 1-800-273-8255
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): https://nami.org
- The Providence Center: https://www.providencecenter.org/
- Childcare Assistance Program (CCAP): https://dhs.ri.gov/programs-and-services/child-care/child-care-assistance-program-ccap-head-start/ccap-family
- State approved childcare centers: https://earlylearningprograms.dhs.ri.gov/
- RI Parent Information Network: https://ripin.org/
- Parent Support Network of RI: 401-467-6855, https://psnri.org/
- Project Undercover (free diapers and socks): (401) 773-4250, [email protected]
- CCRI The Tutoring Center: https://www.ccri.edu/success/
- Laptop, iPad, and Hot Spot loans: https://www.ccri.edu/library/about/laptops.html
- CCRI Financial Aid: https://www.ccri.edu/onestop/fa/
- Educational Opportunity Center (EOC): https://www.ccri.edu/eoc/
- Grants and Scholarships:
- CCRI Foundation: https://ccri.awardspring.com/
- RI Foundation: https://rifoundation.org/grants-scholarships/browse-scholarships
- Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-494-8100
- Sexual Assault: https://dayoneri.org/
- RI Legal Services: https://www.rils.org/
- RI Tenant-Landlord Handbook: https://housing.ri.gov/data-reports/2024-landlord-tenant-handbook-update
- American Civil Liberties Union: https://www.riaclu.org/
- RI Human Rights Commission: http://www.richr.ri.gov/
- RI Bar Association Lawyer Referral: https://ribar.com/for-the-public/
- Refugees and Immigrants
- Refugee Assistance Program: https://dhs.ri.gov/programs-and-services/refugee-assistance-program
- Dorcas International Institute: https://www.diiri.org/
- A Hope: https://www.ahoperi.com/
- Higher Ground International: https://highergroundintl.org/
- Refugee Dream Center: https://www.refugeedreamcenter.org/elementor-2556/
- Women’s Refugee Care: https://www.womensrefugeecare.org/
- Center for Southeast Asians: https://cseari.org/
- Progreso Latino: https://progresolatino.org/
- LGBTQIA++
- TGI Network of Rhode Island: https://www.tginetwork.org/
- Youth Pride: https://www.youthprideri.org/
- The RI LGBT Center: https://www.facebook.com/RILGBTCenter