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Your Future
Whether you’re changing careers, learning a new trade, or getting on the path to a degree or certificate, we’re here to help.
Finish Your Degree
We provide free help to Rhode Islanders who want to complete a college degree. Our professionals can provide advice on how you can finish your degree and about all the help that is available to you!
Connect with a NavigatorReturn to School or Training
It's never too late, or too early, to follow your dreams. Let us help you pick up where you left off.
Connect with a NavigatorReturning to School or Changing Careers Can Be Daunting. Let Us Help.
Returning to school to finish what you started can seem overwhelming…but it doesn’t have to be that way. Sometimes life just happens to get hard. We want to help you pick up where you stopped. Whether that means changing careers, learning a new trade, or getting on the path to a degree or certificate, we’re here to help you for free.
Let us connect you with an educational navigator, who will be your personal cheerleader and guide through the process of returning to school or job training. He or she will help you identify a goal, create a plan to reach that goal, and connect you to the resources that will help you achieve your goal at no cost to you.
Importantly, the navigators identify non-tuition financial barriers that may prevent you from finishing your degree or certificate and recommend solutions to address those barriers and set you on the road to success.
“Thanks to RI Reconnect my children and I stayed afloat. You helped me pay my bills and provided me with food vouchers.”
Tomeka Johnson
Read More"I appreciate Nakisha and RI Reconnect so much. From the bottom of my heart, honestly, thank you for helping me."
Stacy Carrion
Read More“I enjoyed working with Nakisha from RIR, as she was such a great help and very nice! I enjoyed our talks and I hope to work with her again.”
Agnes Aubert
Read More“As a career changer and a single mother to my 10-year-old daughter, I wanted to be sure I would have a paycheck at the end of the program.”
Alyssa Linkamper
Read More“The manufacturing company I worked at for eight years would have paid for me to attend school to become an electrician but my passion, my dream, was to learn computer technology.”
Jai Parsai
Read More“It’s not a requirement to be a certain age to follow your dreams.”
Craig Butler
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