Community Organizations
R.E.C. Night is youth program run out of the Selim-Rogers recreation center. This collaborative effort has been underway since March 2008 and needs volunteers. To learn more please follow this link.
Capitol Hill Health Center
(Providence Community Health Centers)
40 Candice St.
Established in 1968, Providence Community Health Centers is the largest primary health-care provider in Providence and treats patients regardless of their ability to pay. In addition to its five health clinics, PCHC also operates a school-based program, a dental clinic and the state’s only sexually transmitted disease clinic.
The Community Congress is an organization comprised of area non-profits, schools, churches and individuals committed to community building and improvement.
Institute of the Study and Practice of Nonviolence
ISPN operates the “Providence Streetworkers” - an acclaimed intervention and outreach program designed to reduce violence between youth gangs in the city. The organization also teaches nonviolence in local schools and trains adults and youth in nonviolence through its “train the trainer” programs.
Lillian Feinstein Senior Center
(Capital City Community Centers)
1085 Chalkstone Ave.
The Lillian Feinstein Senior Center serves approximately 300 seniors from the Smith Hill, Valley, Mount Pleasant, Wanskuck and Elmhurst neighborhoods. Services include: providing seniors with meals (through Meals on Wheels), case management services, trips and other recreational activities. The Center consistently seeks to grow membership by outreaching to new seniors through local organizations, pharmacies, hospitals and current members.
The Neighborhood Council is a Smith Hill Community Development Corporation initiative designed to mobilize community action and organize community oriented events
PawsWatch is Rhode Island’s branch of a large and growing grassroots effort to transform the population of “street cats” into healthy, managed colonies, which will then decline through attrition instead of killing. Basically, instead of killing cats which are not good pets, the cats are neutered, vaccinated, and given ongoing shelter and food.
Smith Hill Branch Library & Friends Group
31 Candice St.
The Smith Hill Branch Library is an exciting, family-oriented learning center. The Smith Hill Library Branch Friends Group is a group of community members committeeed to help the library branch. Anyone is welcome to join!