Shelters
| Address: | 159 Main St.
Farmington, ME 04938 |
| Phone: | (207) 778-6107; 1-800-559-2927 (hotline) (toll free) |
| Fax: | (207) 778-6297 |
| E-mail: | awapfarm@awap.org |
| Website: | http://www.awap.org |
| Contact: | Aimee Desroches |
| Clients: | Victims of domestic abuse in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford counties. |
| Services: | Advocates can help with:
A confidential place to talk. Information and resources. Shelter and support groups. Assistance through the court system. Referral to other support systems. A safe place when home isn’t safe. Volunteer Opportunities: Crisis intervention, court advocacy, office work, handling donations, speaker’s bureau, working with children. Required training: AWAP will provide training. Time requirements: Variable. Volunteer coordinator: Aimee DesRoches (207) 778-6107. |
| Fees: | Free and confidential. |
| Hours: | 24 Hour domestic abuse helpline. Call for office hours. |
| Location: | 179 Indiana Avenue
Bangor |
| Phone: | (207) 973-6400 or 1-800-444-2555 |
| Clients: | Substance abusers |
| Address: | United Valley Chapter
1180 Lisbon Street, Suite 2 Lewiston, ME 04240 |
| Phone: | (207) 795-4004 |
| Fax: | (207) 795-4037 |
| E-mail: | redcross@midmaine.com |
| Website: | http://www.maineredcross.org |
| Services: | The American Red Cross, a humanitarian organization led by volunteers, guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement, will provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.
The American Red Cross also offers CPR, First Aid, Babysitters training, CPR for the Professional rescuer, Bloodbourne pathogens and Disaster Training. For caregivers we offer a series of Caregiving classes that are free of charge to anyone 65 and over or anyone caring for someone 65 or over. With CPR, First Aid and Bloodbourne Pathogens we can cater to most company requirements to have such classes. |
| Location: | 26 Cedar Street
Bangor |
| Phone: | (207) 947-0092 |
| Phone: | (207) 498-6146 or 1-800-439-2323 or (207) 764-2977 |
| Services: | Domestic violence assistance in Caribou, Houlton and Presque Isle |
| Address: | 157 Walter St.
Augusta, ME 04330 |
| Location: | 157 Hospital St.
Augusta |
| Phone: | (207) 626-3479 |
| Fax: | (207) 626-6385 |
| E-mail: | bolm@mint.net |
| Clients: | All ages. Males and females. Serves Androscoggin, Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo, Washington and York counties. |
| Services: | Emergency shelter. Families, victims of domestic violence, single men and women including those with mental illness. |
| Hours: | Office Hours and Intake Hours: Monday-Friday 3 p.m.-10 a.m. |
| Location: | 218 Main Street
Rockland |
| Phone: | (207) 596-2920, 1-866-506-3520 |
| Clients: | Homeless teens |
| Phone: | (207) 324-1802 or 1-800-239-7298 |
| Services: | Domestic violence assistance/shelter |
| Location: | 200 Main Street
Lewiston |
| Phone: | 1-800-452-1999 |
| Clients: | Sexually or physically abused children, neglected children and their families, as well as parental abuse |
| Location: | 54 & 55 Chestnut
Portland |
| Phone: | (207) 772-8339 |
| Clients: | Families |
| Location: | 32 Erchles Street
Rumford |
| Phone: | (207) 364-3824 or 764-7716 or 1-800-866-5588 |
| Clients: | homeless |
| Location: | 90 Schoolhouse Road
Orland |
| Phone: | (207) 469-7961 |
| Clients: | Those suffering from mental illness/substance abuse |
| Services: | Shelter |
| Location: | Corner of Main and Water Streets
Ellsworth |
| Phone: | (207) 667-3962 |
| Clients: | General homeless shelter |
| Address: | PO Box 704
Portland, ME 04103 |
| Phone: | (207) 874-1973; 1-800-537-6066 (24-hour Hotline) (toll free) |
| Fax: | (207) 767-8109 |
| Clients: | Victims of domestic violence and their children. |
| Services: | Emergency shelter, 24-hour Hotline, assistance in obtaining protection from abuse orders, support group, and community education. |
| Fees: | None. |
| Hours: | Office hours: Monday thru Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 24-hour Hotline service. |
| Phone: | (207) 623-3560 or 1-877-890-7788 |
| Clients: | Domestic violence shelter |
| Location: | 25 Deering Street
Norway |
| Phone: | (207) 744-0936 |
| Clients: | Homeless shelter |
| Address: | 5 Commerce Drive
Skowhegan, ME 04976 |
| Phone: | (207) 474-8574 |
| Clients: | Youth ages 10-17; Coed. |
| Services: | Emergency shelter. May stay up to 30 days. Counseling services are available for residents. |
| Fees: | Sliding fee. |
| Hours: | 24-hours. |
| Address: | 209 Lincoln St.
Lewiston, ME 04240 |
| Phone: | (207) 783-6068 |
| Fax: | 783-3904 |
| Clients: | Service residents of Lewiston/Auburn and surounding areas of Maine. |
| Services: | The Hope Have Gospel Mission provides a shelter and a soup kitchen, which serves meals twice a day. Counseling and a Christian environment are provided to those who wish to join the rehabilitation program. Primarily serves the residents of Androscoggin County but will provide Franklin County resident’s emergency services on a first come first serve basis. |
| Location: | 15 First Street
Bucksport |
| Phone: | (207) 469-7961 |
| Clients: | homeless shelter |
| Location: | 237 Oxford Street
Portland |
| Phone: | (207) 874-1055, 1-800-870-9998 |
| Clients: | mental illness shelter |
| Phone: | (207) 853-6021 |
| Contact: | Perry Machias |
| Clients: | General homeless shelter |
| Address: | 353 Water St.
Augusta, ME 04330 |
| Phone: | 1-800-452-4668 (toll free) |
| Website: | http://www.mainehousing.org |
| Clients: | Persons needing housing information, rental assistance, or low interest loans to purchase or make home improvements, among other services. Must meet income guidelines. A comprehensive list of homeless shelters is also available. |
| Services: | Provides low-interest loans to purchase a home and to improve livability or energy efficiency of homes, including modifications to improve accessibility for persons with disabilities. Refers low income renters to housing providers assisted by MSHA and maintains a list of homeless shelters. |
| Fees: | No fees; Rates vary from 1% up. |
| Hours: | Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
| Location: | 169 Old County Road
Rockport |
| Phone: | (207) 594-1422 |
| Services: | General homeless shelter |
| Address: | PO Box 2612
Waterville, ME 04901 |
| Location: | 28 Ticonic St.
Waterville |
| Phone: | (207) 872-8082 |
| Fax: | (207) 872-6550 |
| Contact: | Julienne Begin, Office Manager |
| Clients: | Providing emergency shelter and food to homeless and displaced people in Franklin, Kennebec, Somerset and Waldo counties. |
| Services: | The Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter provides emergency overnight shelter every day. The Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter has 17 beds and 2 cribs. Part of the shelter is set up for families. The Shelter also provides evening and morning meals, showers, bedding, laundry facilities, links to other area services, short-term preventative case management, access to the Waterville Social Club, and much more. |
| Hours: | 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
| Location: | 65 India Street
Portland |
| Phone: | (207) 775-4790 |
| Clients: | Substance abusers |
| Services: | shelter |
| Location: | 181 State Street
Bangor |
| Phone: | (207) 941-8809 or 1-800-773-9595 |
| Clients: | Pregnant teens or women |
| Services: | Shelter |
| Location: | 306 Congress Street
Portland |
| Phone: | (207) 772-3678 |
| Clients: | Pregnant teens and women |
| Services: | Shelter |
| Address: | 124 Main St. Suite 103
Farmington, ME 04938 |
| Phone: | (207) 778-6193; Shelter (207) 795-4070 |
| Pager: | 818-1170 |
| Contact: | Ernie Gurney |
| Clients: | Youth ages 12-21. |
| Services: | Youth ages 12-21 who are runaways, homeless, or at risk of being homeless.
New Beginnings offers a continuum of services including basic shelter, long term transitional living, and outreach services providing case management and assistance with survival needs for youth living on their own. New Beginnings is a non-profit youth agency located in Lewiston, with a branch in Farmington, Maine. Established in 1977, New Beginnings is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Since opening its doors in 1980, New Beginnings has grown from a program providing basic shelter care to an agency with a variety of community based services meeting the needs of youth in crisis and their families. The agency receives funding from individual donors, local organizations such as the United way, and state and federal sources. New Beginnings also provides Residential Services such as Emergency shelters to children ages 12-17. They also provide Transitional Living for developing skills for independent living. This is available for children ages 16-20. New Beginnings also has HIV prevention and training for youth. |
| Fees: | None. |
| Address: | PO Box A
Rockland, ME 04841-0733 |
| Phone: | (207) 594-2128; (207) 563-2404; (207) 338-6569; 1-800-522-3304 (toll free) |
| Fax: | (207) 594-0811 |
| E-mail: | newhope@newhopeforwomen.org |
| Website: | http://www.newhopeforwomen.org/home.htm |
| Clients: | Abused partners and their children. |
| Services: | Emergency shelter, transitional housing, crisis counseling, court advocacy, referral, support groups, school outreach programs, school support groups, crisis counseling, community response program which entails training and assistance to agencies and institutions, and community education. |
| Fees: | None. |
| Hours: | Office hours: Monday thru Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 24-hour service. |
| Location: | 5 Porter Street
South Paris |
| Clients: | Families needing shelter |
| Location: | 197 Oxford
Portland |
| Phone: | (207) 761-2072 |
| Location: | 65 Elm Street
Portland |
| Phone: | (207) 774-3073 |
| Clients: | youth |
| Services: | shelter |
| Location: | 346 Pine Street
Rumford |
| Phone: | (207) 369-9230; 1-800-550-3551 (toll free) |
| Clients: | Youth |
| Services: | Shelter |
| Address: | 81 Church Hill Rd.
Leeds, ME 04263 |
| Phone: | (207) 524-3791 or 224-7505 |
| E-mail: | rcamout@aol.com |
| Website: | http://www.rcam.net/ |
| Contact: | Gil Ward or Carole Richards |
| Clients: | RCAM provides assistance for people living in Oxford, Androscoggin, and Kennebec counties. Towns served: Livermore, Greene, Sabattus, Wales, Momouth, Litchfield, Buckfield, Hartford, Canton, Sumner, Turner, and Leeds. |
| Services: | RCAM reaches out to people of rural Maine who are in need and assists them to help themselves.
The RCAM also has Summer Mission/Work Groups come to Maine in the summer from all over the country to help the RCAM’s Housing Program with rehabilitation on community homes and other RCAM Projects. Housing Program: Designed to respond to both the emergency and long term needs in maintaining safe and adequate housing. Gardening Program: Helps people learn to plan, plant, maintain and harvest their own gardens. Volunteer Program: Creates an opportunity for individuals to help people in need throughout RCAM’s 13 town service area. Homelessness Prevention Services Program: Helps people to access the right resources to meet their highest possible level of self sufficiency by identifying needs, helping to set priorities, providing information and encouraging progress. Emergency Shelter: RCAM operates a two unit emergency homeless shelter for families who find themselves without a place to live. Faith In Action Program: Coordinates volunteers to provide outreach services to frail elderly and disabled. Food Banks: The RCAM helps to maintain 13 area Food Banks staffed by community Volunteers. |
| Address: | 81 Church Hill Road
Leeds, ME 04263 |
| Phone: | (207) 524-5095 or 524-3791 |
| E-mail: | rcamout@aol.com |
| Website: | http://www.rcam.net/ |
| Clients: | Homeless families. |
| Services: | The RCAM operates a two unit emergency homeless shelter for families who find themselves without a place to live.
Shelter for a limited period of time Budgeting Referrals to other Agencies Assistance with Affordable Housing Search Information and Advocacy Duplex in a rural setting, 5 beds in each unit. |
| Location: | 136 Union Street
Bangor |
| Phone: | (207) 941-2874 Shelter: 795-4070 |
| Clients: | Youth |
| Services: | Shelter |
| Location: | 745 Central Avenue
Presque |
| Phone: | (207) 764-5117 |
| Clients: | Youth |
| Services: | General and youth shelter in Aroostook County |
| Address: | PO Box 653
Bangor, ME 04402-0653 |
| Phone: | (207) 947-0496; 723-5664; collect calls, 945-510; 1-800-863-9909 (toll free) |
| Fax: | (207) 990-4252 |
| E-mail: | sprucerun@midmaine.com |
| Clients: | Abused women and their children, people affected by domestic violence. |
| Services: | Advocacy and support, emergency shelters, referral, women’s support groups, children’s groups, and training and education. |
| Fees: | None. |
| Hours: | Office hours: Monday thru Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. On call 24-hours and scheduled appointments as needed. |
| Address: | 188 Sabattus Street
Lewiston, ME 04240 |
| Phone: | (207) 783-8003 |
| Clients: | Moms ages 19-29 and their babies. |
| Services: | Residential care group interaction; individual and group counseling; counseling for parents, family, and others; health and family life education; speakers, coordination of educational and vocational programs; discussion of human, Christian values; medical care arranged; recreational and cultural activities; shared responsibilities. |
| Fees: | Non-profit organization; sliding fee scale. |
| Hours: | Business calls should be made within regular business hours. 24-hour facility. |
| Phone: | (207) 469-3018 |
| Clients: | Mental illness/substance abuse/domestic violence sufferers |
| Services: | Shelter |
| Phone: | (207) 469-1988 |
| Services: | Homeless shelter |
| Address: | 23 Bartlett Street
Lewiston, ME 04240 |
| Phone: | (207) 786-4690 |
| E-mail: | smdporres02@aol.com |
| Contact: | Brother Richard, Executive Director |
| Clients: | men and women by referral only. |
| Services: | Overnight facility with no time limitation. Ten beds (6 for men; 4 for women). Assistance through referral to needed services in Lewiston area. |
| Hours: | 5:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m. |
| Location: | 49 Cumberland Street
Brunswick |
| Phone: | (207) 725-4871 or (207) 729-4583 |
| Clients: | General public and families requiring shelter |
| Services: | homeless shelter |
| Phone: | (207) 255-4785; 1-888-604-8692 (toll free) |
| Services: | Shelter for domestic violence sufferers |
| Phone: | (207) 667-4606; 1-800-315-5579 (toll free) |
| Clients: | domestic violence sufferers |
| Services: | safe homes |
| Address: | PO Box 192
Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04226 |
| Phone: | (207) 564-8165; 1-800-564-8165 (toll free) |
| Fax: | (207) 564-7418 |
| E-mail: | wmncare@hotmail.com |
| Clients: | Abused people living with or affected by domestic violence. |
| Services: | Advocacy, referral, education, information, support groups, legal advocate, parenting education, community education, transitional housing, children’s programming (Harmony Camp – project self-esteem), school outreach. Safehome system used when woman and her children are in immediate physical danger. |
| Fees: | None. |
| Hours: | Office hours: Monday thru Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. 24-hour Hotline. |
| Location: | 147 Shaker Hill Rd
Alfred |
| Phone: | (207) 324-1137 |
| Clients: | Homeless individuals and families; people who have mental health, chemical dependency or dual diagnosis problems |
| Services: | Shelter |
| Location: | 826 Portland Road
Saco |
| Phone: | (207) 283-0069 |
| Clients: | Substance abusers |
| Services: | shelter |
| Address: | P.O. Box 596
Portland, ME 04112 |
| Location: | 400 Congress Street |
| Phone: | (207) 874 -1175 |
| Fax: | (207) 874 -1181 |
| TTY: | (207) 874-1180 |
| E-mail: | info@youthalternatives.org |
| Website: | http://www.youthalternatives.org/ |
| Services: | Youth Alternatives, a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1972, has built a continuum of care that serves families at all levels of need, from prevention to intensive interventions for child abuse and neglect, juvenile justice and children in need of services. Our clients include: survivors of abuse and neglect, whether physical, emotional or sexual; parents in need of supports and education; children and youth at-risk for homelessness or criminal behavior; and/or families at-risk of having a child removed from their homes. |
| Location: | 400 Congress St.
Portland |
| Phone: | (207) 874-1175 |
| Services: | Safe, supportive stable shelters usually through placement or referral through the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Many of the shelters are open to Maine's communities. |
| Location: | 627 Middle Road
Skowhegan |
| Phone: | (207) 474-8574 |
| Clients: | Youth |
| Services: | shelter |