Sara Melucci
Adjunct Faculty
Brief Biography:
Sara Melucci is the Director of Field Education. She earned her BSW at Providence College and her MSW at Rhode Island College. Sara was formerly an adjunct faculty member in the Rhode Island College School of Social Work and a visiting lecturer at the Brown University Alpert Medical School, where she taught on homelessness and its intersections with health, substance use, trauma, housing policy, and the criminal legal system. Before returning to Providence College, she spent the last decade working with people experiencing homelessness at House of Hope CDC, where she served as their Director of Outreach Programs. Her work within the homeless service system included street-based outreach and crisis intervention, policy advocacy around decriminalizing homelessness and visible poverty, organizing and implementing COVID-19 response protocol, facilitating trainings on homelessness for community-based organizations, and helping launch Rhode Island’s first street medicine program in collaboration with colleagues at Lifespan and Brown Medicine. Her interests live at the intersections of social work and medicine, faith and practice, clinical and policy interventions, and the classroom and the field.
