| Allows
low-income residents of Aroostook County to acquire new and used building
materials, appliances, furniture and household items at a fraction of retail
value. Phone: 498-2575 |
| The
Aroostook Council to Prevent Child Abuse is a volunteer community agency
with programs committed to preventing child abuse by strengthening families through
education and support. Phone: 764-0080 |
| Provides free and confidential crisis,
support and prevention services to victims of sexual violence and their
significant others.
|
| Distributes
books to those children and families most in need of literacy services and
children’s books. Phone: 493-7823 |
| Offers
help, hope and safety to victims of domestic violence in Aroostook County
through unconditional support, shelter, information and advocacy services.
Phone: 764-2977 |
|
Provides materials for low-income homeowners to acquire new and used
building materials, appliances, furniture and household items at a fraction
of retail value.
Phone:
498-2575 |
| An
organization that enables people with mental retardation and developmental
disabilities to reach their highest level of personal development.
Phone: 764-0134 |
|
Provides mentoring relationships for children and youth in the central
Aroostook area whose personal environments challenge their social, emotional
and behavioral well being.
Phone: 764-7664 |
|
Provides seniors with computer training and placing computers in homes of
homebound seniors, senior citizen centers and senior housing facilities with
access to the internet.
Phone: 764-3396 |
| A
licensed adult day care, strength-based program, structured around health
and social needs of memory-impaired individuals over the age of sixty.
Phone: 764-3396 |
| Private, nonprofit,
community-based organization providing direct case management to people
living with HIV/AIDS.
Phone: 990-3626
|
| An
organization to support persons with developmental and behavioral health
disabilities in achieving their goals in home, school, work, and community.
Phone: 463-2156 |
|
Visiting Nurses of Aroostook – Provides long-term care home care services to
the chronically ill, maternal child health services, and grief support
services to children.
Phone: 498-2578 |
|
Provides an extensive and well-organized resource directory to Aroostook
County families and professionals to help them locate needed services.
Phone: 764-7664 |
| A
program that provides loans to people who are in severe financial need with
no one to turn to.
Phone: 764-7664 |
|
Provides homemaking services to elderly and disabled clients to assist them
in remaining independent in their homes for as long as possible.
Phone: 498-2575 |
| We strive to shelter the homeless, feed the hungry. offer
outreach and supply new hope for the homeless.
|
| A
parent support group promoting the general welfare of people with special
needs through peer and parent support, referral, and advocacy.
Phone: 834-3820 |
| A Therapeutic farm
designed to facilitate animal-assisted therapy which is recommended for
children with reactive attachment disorders, behavioral difficulties,
anxiety and mood disorders and a host of other childhood mental health
diagnoses.
Phone:
425-3880
|
| Provides support for adults in our community with
developmental disabilities, by offering programs such as Supported Living,
Community Inclusion, and Peer Group.
Phone: 764-3766 |
|
Volunteers 55 years or older promote healthy, productive aging by using a
lifetime of skills, experience and talent to meet important local needs.
Phone: 764-3396 |
|
Promotes personal and social choices that enhance development and
maintenance of valued life skills and adult roles to maximize individual
capability and personal independence for persons with mental disabilities.
Phone: 728-7197 |
|
Provides emergency food, shelter, transportation, clothing and Social
Development and Life Skills programs for those not covered by other
programs.
Phone:532-2322 |
| A program of Cary Medical Center that provides specialty
services when illness involves impaired or loss of memory function.
Phone:498-1158 |
| Provides a full range of professional health and supportive
services at home, including skilled nursing education assessments,
monitoring, therapy services, personal care, counseling support and
advocacy.
Phone:498-2578 |
|
Donor Designations Only Agencies |
Contact Information | Websites / information |
|
Hospice of Aroostook (Visiting Nurses of Aroostook) |
498-2578 | |
|
Houlton Regional Health Services Foundation |
532-9471 |