Home & Family

Thanks to our AARP volunteers who turned out Saturday for Back to School Celebration "Packing Day." It takes a small army to fill 15,000 backpacks with school supplies and health & nutrition information. But we did it. Thanks to Sodexo, our host, and volunteers from all the Back to School Celebration partners. AARP Rhode Island is proud to sponsor this annual event that means so much to struggling Rhode Island families and encourages learning. Distribution is August 17. If you would like to volunteer to help out at one of the sites around the state, contact Deborah Miller at 401-248-2654.

Rhode Island is First State to Guarantee Job Security for Family Leave

Hungry in the West End, the senior hunger documentary produced by AARP Rhode Island is an Official Selection of the 2013 Melbourne, Australia International Web Series Festival. This follows the provocative series' Official Selection and Best Producer win at the 2013 Los Angeles International Web Series Festival.

RHODE ISLAND PASSES GROUNDBREAKING TEMPORARY CAREGIVER INSURANCE LAW

Press statement by the RI Payday Lending Reform Coalition, of which AARP Rhode Island is an active partner and advocate.

AARP Rhode Island continues to work with a coalition including the RI Women’s Fund and the Senior Agenda on a bill to establish a Temporary Caregiver Insurance (TCI) program for caregivers similar to Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI). With TDI, there is paid time off when you are ill – with TCI it allows time off to care for a seriously ill family member. As with TDI, it is totally funded by employee contributions. The current estimate is that each employee would pay an additional 83 cents per week to fund the program.

Summer means another opportunity to help get Rhode Island school children of to a great start of the school year. The annual Back to School Celebration -- now in its 15th year -- provides new backpacks filled with school supplies and nutritional information to some 15,000 students. The effort not only encourages learning, but helps families that struggle with back-to-school purchases.

AARP Launches Life Reimagined to Offer Ways for

AARP Rhode Island's Deanna Casey was among the 2013 Earth Day Environmental Champions honored by Clean Water Action and Ocean State Action on April 26, 2013 at the Aspray Boathouse in Cranston. Casey was cited for her successful passage of a Complete Streets Bill in the RI General Assembly and other work associated with Livable Communities.

Mayors urge the General Assembly to reform payday lending this year