About Us
Tannerhill operates as a private, non-profit agency funded through the RI Department of Children, Youth, and Families in conjunction with the RI Department of Human Services.
Tannerhill group homes provide services to girls and boys ages 5 through 12. The first home was located in a former convent in Burrillville. In 1984, eight boys moved from the convent into a home in Pascoag, RI. A home for girls opened in Pascoag 1989. A third home opened for boys, in Woonsocket in 1999. Tannerhill Specialized Foster Care accepted the first child into a Tannerhill-supported foster home in July 2006.
Children are referred to Tannerhill by the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF). from a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, and with varied family histories.
Each Tannerhill home ensures that children are provided with a nurturing and enriching therapeutic environment, where the differences in each child’s family history and culture are clearly understood and respected.
Most children at Tannerhill are survivors of abuse and/or neglect. Tannerhill provides a home-like, positive therapeutic environment where these children can develop the social and emotional skills necessary to return to a permanent family setting. Treatment at Tannerhill is viewed as an opportunity to engage children in counseling, to provide positive, structured activities, to enhance self-esteem and feelings of safety and well being, and to create an atmosphere where mutual respect, caring relationships, and positive interactions are the standards for children and adults alike.
Child care staff members meet the challenges of managing the children’s fears, relationship difficulties and behavioral challenges in a therapeutic manner, while allowing them to settle into a predictable daily life of school, play, sports, friends and consistent adults.