NEW: Langevin to Announce Federal Funding to Benefit RI Family Caregivers

NEW: Langevin to Announce Federal Funding to Benefit RI Family Caregivers

Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI), who has played a lead role in raising awareness about the value of support for family caregivers, will join state officials on Thursday, August 30, 2012, to announce federal funding awarded to the Caregiver Alliance of Rhode Island. The grant is available as a result of the bipartisan Lifespan Respite Care Act, which was coauthored by Langevin with former Congressman Michael Ferguson (R-NJ) and signed into law in 2006.

The Alliance is composed of the State Division of Elderly Affairs (DEA), the Parent Support Network, the POINT and the Diocese of Providence.

Secretary Steven Costantino of the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services, DEA Director Catherine Taylor and other representatives from the group will gather at 1pm at the John O. Pastore Complex in Cranston to address the purpose of the grant and the ways it will benefit Rhode Island families.

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