| Address: | PO Box 278
South Paris, ME 04281 |
| Location: | 17-19 Market Square
South Paris |
| Phone: | Main office (207) 743-7716 (South Paris) |
| Website: | http://www.community-concepts.org |
| Clients: | Additional offices: Rumford 364-3721; Auburn 795-4065
Farmington (Transportation): (207) 779-0594 Farmington, 124 Main St. (Family Support): (207) 779-0919 Farmington (HeadStart) (207) 778-7534 Jay (HeadStart) (207) 897-4258 New Sharon (HeadStart) (207) 778-0395 Wilton Bass Office, 284 Main St. (207) 645-9512 (HeadStart) (207) 645-3284 |
| Services: | Community Concepts is a Maine non-profit community action agency dedicated to helping people to help themselves. Since 1965, Community Concepts, Inc. has offered a variety of social services that promote self-sufficiency within the people of the communities of Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties of Maine. The focus is “to coordinate, collaborate, and to focus resources to help people in need build opportunities for a better tomorrow.”
Main office is located in South Paris. Satellite offices located in Auburn, Rumford and Farmington have various program offices including HeadStart, Transportation and Family Support. Programs include: Parenting education Supported Journey into Recovery Parent Partners Project Meditation Family support Healthy Beginnings Community Cares H.E.A.P. (Fuel Assistance) Fuel assistance is available through Community Concepts for residents of Livermore and Livermore Falls. Electric and Telephone Lifelines Finders/Seekers (linking people to child care opportunities) Homeless Shelter Head Start programs REACH program (increase efficiency of energy usage), Self-Help Home Building program, low income housing for Senior Citizens, and Home weatherization program.
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| Fees: | Most programs are at no cost.
Self help Home Building Program has fees: No down payment, low mortgage payments, instant equity (up to $20,000), interest rates as low as 1%, low closing costs, energy efficient, 3 Bedrooms. |
| Hours: | Monday thru Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |