RIPIN Summer News:

Tickets are now available for RIPIN's 1st Annual Fundraiser on November 8, 2008 at the West Valley Inn in West Warwick. There will be food, fun, raffles and entertainment by Charlie Hall's Ocean State Follies. Tickets are $35 per person. Space is limited, so call Sandra Rivera to reserve your tickets today at 401.727.4144 x143

Check out this summer's RIPIN Newsletter online

Download the highlights of changes to Rhode Island's special education regulations

Click here to visit and listen to past Family 411 radio shows Our archives of more than 40 shows cover everything from how to talk to your child's teacher and how to get more involved at school to bullying and family nutrition. So, check it out today and learn from the experts and the parents who've been there themselves!

"Boy in the World" film available on DVD at RIPIN!  RIPIN sponsored film Boy in the World: Preschool Inclusion at Brown / Fox Point can be purchased at RIPIN. The film follows the life of a young boy with Down syndrome in his fully inclusive life at school, at home, and in his community.

Need help finding parking? RIPIN has access to an overflow parking lot in downtown Pawtucket.

Founded in 1991, the Rhode Island Parent Information Network (RIPIN) is a statewide, 501(c)(3), charitable, nonprofit organization with a collective programmatic reach that extends to every Rhode Island community, the state’s major family-serving systems, schools, associations, and agencies. Our mission is to inform, educate, support and empower all families to be equal partners in advocacy for the education, health, and socioeconomic well being of their children and families; and to achieve family-centered systems changes, which are culturally competent and community based. RIPIN offers eleven programs and services to families with children in RI, including families of children with special needs.  We serve more than 65,000 Rhode Islanders each year.