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• ProJo: Westerly homeless shelter provides for residents, keeps them safe during pandemic

  Westerly homeless shelter provides for residents, keeps them safe during pandemic

• AARP Innovation Labs Launches ‘AARP Community Connections’ Platform To Find Help, Or Give It, During Coronavirus Pandemic

  AARP Community Connections, a new online platform launched by AARP Innovation Labs today, allows users to organize and find local volunteer groups to help pick up groceries, provide financial assistance or lend emotional support to neighbors, friends and loved ones.

• ProJo: Community activists set up mobile shower unit to help the homeless

  It’s easy to take a hot shower for granted. Unless your water heater busts. Or your plumbing doesn’t work. Or you live on the streets. Shower to Empower set up shop this week on Central Street on the city’s South Side, bringing a trailer with two private stalls for the use of people who are homeless.

• ProJo: Staff member at Cranston homeless shelter tests positive for coronavirus

  Staff member at Cranston homeless shelter tests positive for coronavirus

• ProJo: 'Human crisis' facing people with behavioral-health needs as workforce crisis continues

  'Human crisis' facing people with behavioral-health needs as workforce crisis continues

• ProJo: Karen Santilli: Homelessness grows in Rhode Island

  Homelessness in Rhode Island is on the rise. The state saw a 1.7 percent increase in homelessness this year according to a new report by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Statewide, 1,180 people experienced homelessness on a single day earlier this year. Nearly 400 were children in homeless families; almost 100 were veterans. Of even greater concern, Rhode Island’s chronically homeless population nearly doubled, increasing from 136 to 240.