The Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit at Newport Hospital
Together, We Can Expand Essential Services for Our Community’s Most Vulnerable Teens.
With your help...
Newport Hospital plans to transform an existing area of the hospital into a new, eight-bed behavioral health unit. It will serve adolescents ages 12 to 18 years old who are in need of short-term stabilization, assessment, and treatment and include bright and modern group therapy rooms and activity rooms. It will also feature a healing outdoor enclosed garden area.
This essential infrastructure will allow Newport Hospital to deliver Bradley Hospital’s world-class pediatric behavioral and mental health care to more families, closer to home. With your generous support, we can eliminate barriers by increasing access and expanding the continuum of care.
Newport Hospital will significantly impact the lives of children in crisis and their families. Together, we can help meet the needs of our community by prioritizing the health and well-being of our most vulnerable.
Did you know?
Nationwide rates of childhood mental health concerns and suicide rose steadily between 2010 and 2020. By 2018, suicide was the second-leading cause of death for youth ages 10-24.
In FY 2021, there were 9,702 calls to the behavioral and mental health crisis hotline Kids’ Link RI, twice the number of calls received in FY 2019, prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The percentage of high school students reporting persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness increased from 25 percent in 2009 to 37.8 percent in 2021, according to the Rhode Island Youth Behavioral Health Survey.
To learn more, please contact: Sara Meirowitz, Chief Development Officer, at smeirowitz@lifespan.org or 401.845.1617.