St. Mary's has a number of programs. The Residential Treatment Center combines a highly structured living environment with clinical, behavioral and educational components to provide comprehensive milieu treatment for boys, aged 6 to 13, and girls, aged 8 to 18, who are suffering from behavioral and emotional problems.  Outpatient services are provided to children and their families through the St. Mary's Shepherd Program and the Parent Resource Education Program. Within the Parent Resource Education Program there are two major components: (1) The Parent Resource Education Program which provides in-home support for families at risk of abuse and neglect; (2) The Sophia Little Independent Living Program which assists teen parents in learning basic skills needed to live healthy, productive, and responsible lives.  Through the Shepherd Program, St. Mary's Home for Children provides mental health outpatient treatment for children, adolescents and adults utilizing licensed and master's level clinicians.

ST. MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN opened its doors to children in 1877 as an orphanage within the Episcopal Diocese. Reverend Daniel Ingalls Odell was rector of St. Mary's Church in East Providence, Rhode Island when a couple in his parish died leaving two children. During the same winter another couple died leaving five children. Father Odell took them in and provided for their care. St. Mary's has always been a non-profit agency, which has been committed to serving the changing needs of children and families.  Read more about our history. 

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