Rural Community Action Ministry
| Address: | 81 Church Hill Rd. Leeds, ME 04263 |
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| Phone: | (207) 524-5095 or 524-3791 |
| Website: | Website |
| Contact: | Mary Beth Paquette |
| 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. |
| Volunteer Opportunities: | Housing program, rural youth services, gardening, migrant health, outreach, elderly visitors. Required training: General, then specific, provided. Time requirements: Variable and flexible. Usually 2-6 hours per month. Coordinator: (207)524-5095 |
