State seals $9.8 million deal with Family Service for Exeter girls treatment center

State seals $9.8 million deal with Family Service for Exeter girls treatment center

An 2024 architectural rendering of the state building that now has name: South County Academy, a 16-bed new residential facility for adolescent girls in Exeter expected to open this fall. (Courtesy of DBVW Architects)Twenty months after a ceremonial groundbreaking, Rhode Island’s child welfare agency has selected an operator for a behavioral treatment center for teen girls on the site of the former Ladd School in Exeter, with the first-year cont…