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Newport Daily News Feb. 11, 2010
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Help is only 3 digits away |
2-1-1 provides vital connection to services in Rhode Island
By Anthony Maione
If a family member, friend or co-worker were having a heart attack, you wouldn't hesitate to reach for your phone and dial 9-1-1.
If the same person needed to find adult day-care services for an aging parent, or assistance paying utility bills, or affordable day care for a grandchild, or information on Medicare, or help for a friend to get substance-abuse treatment, would you know where to call?
There is a three-digit phone number and web site that offer not only solutions to the concerns listed above but have answers for nearly everything that worries us most in life.
Those three digits are 2-1-1 and the web site is www.211ri.org.
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