Rhode Island opens its first in-state treatment campus for teen girls
South County Academy, a $45 million campus from Family Services of Rhode Island and DCYF, lets girls 13 to 17 get behavioral health care in Exeter, close to their families, instead of out of state.
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Rhode Island opened South County Academy in Exeter, a $45 million campus for girls ages 13 to 17 who need behavioral health care, NBC 10 WJAR reported. Family Services of Rhode Island and the state child-welfare agency, DCYF, built it so those girls can be treated in state, near their families, instead of being sent away.
The campus is the first of its kind in Rhode Island. The dollar figure is the cost of the project. The report is about where care can happen now. It is not a description of any girl's case, and it is not a claim that every family will be offered a bed.
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