Promising Futures for Children & Families
Sweetser offers support in many ways for your child and your family behavioral health needs. Services are available in your community, including through many primary care offices, in a residential setting, or in your child’s school.
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Promising Futures for Adults
Sweetser offers support in many ways for improved adult mental health services — available in your home, or in the community at Sweetser clinics and in many primary care offices.
Services For Adults
Peer-to-Peer Support
It may not be a crisis, but there are times when talking with a peer support specialist who has experience in recovery can make a big difference.
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Giving school-aged students the best chance for successful learning, Sweetser’s special education curriculum supports students struggling with social, emotional, and academic challenges.
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Sweetser offers support in many ways for your child and your family behavioral health needs. Services are available in your community, including through many primary care offices, in a residential setting, or in your child’s school.
Services
It may not be a crisis, but there are times when talking with a peer support specialist who has experience in recovery can make a big difference.
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🎉 We're officially open! 🎉
Sweetser is thrilled to announce the opening of our SupportME Peer Center in Brunswick.
✂️🎀We celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony joined by legislative, business, and community leaders alongside our friends at the …@bath_brunswick_topsham_chamber and @coast931's @blakehayes.
🏡 This is Maine's 6th peer center and the ONLY one serving Brunswick and the Midcoast region—including Sagadahoc, Knox, Waldo, and Lincoln Counties.
💙 What we offer: A judgment-free, welcoming environment for connection, community, and healing. The center is staffed by individuals with lived experience who truly understand and provide daily peer-run groups, life skills workshops, and one-on-one support.
100% FREE – No payment, no insurance, no barriers. Just come as you are.
📍 329 Bath Road, Brunswick (next to our Hope & Healing Center) 🕐 Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM 📞 207-373-3005 📧 PeerCenter@sweetser.org
Recovery isn't a solitary journey. Let's walk this path together.
🎉 We're officially open! 🎉
Sweetser is thrilled to announce the opening of our SupportME Peer Center in Brunswick.
✂️🎀We celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony joined by legislative, business, and community leaders alongside our friends at the Bath Brunswick …Topsham Regional Chamber and Coast 93.1 – Portland, ME's Blake Hayes.
🏡 This is Maine's 6th peer center and the ONLY one serving Brunswick and the Midcoast region—including Sagadahoc, Knox, Waldo, and Lincoln Counties.
💙 What we offer: A judgment-free, welcoming environment for connection, community, and healing. The center is staffed by individuals with lived experience who truly understand and provide daily peer-run groups, life skills workshops, and one-on-one support.
100% FREE – No payment, no insurance, no barriers. Just come as you are.
📍 329 Bath Road, Brunswick (next to our Hope & Healing Center) 🕐 Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM 📞 207-373-3005 📧 PeerCenter@sweetser.org 🌐 https://www.sweetser.org/peercenter
Recovery isn't a solitary journey. Let's walk this path together.
🚨 NEW OP-ED! 🚨
Don’t miss today’s powerful piece in the @portlandpressherald: “Why peer support transforms recovery for Mainers.”
Our Director of Recovery Services, Alaina Knox, explains why lived experience is the crucial ingredient in the healing process.
…As Alaina writes: “Recovery from mental health challenges or substance use is not a solitary journey, yet stigma and isolation often make it feel that way. Traditional clinical care, while essential, can sometimes miss a crucial element: the unique perspective that comes from lived experience.”
Peer support provides that essential bridge of authentic human connection and hope. Read the full opinion piece in the Press Herald and their sister newspapers across the state. (LINK IN BIO)
🚨 NEW OP-ED! 🚨
Don't miss today's powerful piece in the Press Herald: "Why peer support transforms recovery for Mainers."
Our Director of Recovery Services, Alaina Knox, explains why lived experience is the crucial ingredient in the healing process.
…
As Alaina writes: "Recovery from mental health challenges or substance use is not a solitary journey, yet stigma and isolation often make it feel that way. Traditional clinical care, while essential, can sometimes miss a crucial element: the unique perspective that comes from lived experience."
Peer support provides that essential bridge of authentic human connection and hope. Read the full opinion piece in the Press Herald and their sister newspapers across the state. ⬇️
When it comes to restoring mental health and coming back from substance use, there’s no denying the power of lived experience. A new center in…
www.pressherald.comSweetser participated in ‘Building Hope: Ending Homelessness in Maine’ panel at the Berwick Public Library. Our Senior Director of Community-Based Services, Wendy Anders, who oversees our Sanford Hope & Healing Center, provided a mental health and recovery perspective to the conversation …after the film screening.
Sweetser participated in ‘Building Hope: Ending Homelessness in Maine’ panel at the Berwick Public Library. Our Senior Director of Community-Based Services, Wendy Anders, who oversees our Sanford Hope & Healing Center, provided a mental health and recovery perspective to the conversation …after the film screening.
Join us for our Pizza with a Purpose Community Night Tuesday Nov. 11th to support mental health. Between 5pm-9pm Sweetser will receive a portion of proceeds from pizza sales @flatbreadcompanyportland (72 Commercial St.). Pizzas ordered at the restaurant, through takeout and delivery will be …counted. Hope to see you! 🍕
Join us for our Pizza with a Purpose Community Night Tuesday Nov. 11th to support mental health. Between 5pm-9pm Sweetser will receive a portion of proceeds from pizza sales at Flatbread Company Portland Maine (72 Commercial St.). Pizzas ordered at the restaurant, through takeout and delivery will …be counted. Hope to see you! 🍕
Reducing mental health stigma through the power of the radio!
Here with Krissy of Q97.9, hosting our Mental Health Minute segment.🎙️🫶
Sweetser team members throughout the organization made these wonderful pumpkin creations to celebrate the season. 🎃
Sweetser team members throughout the organization made these wonderful pumpkin creations to celebrate the season. 🎃
We're not in Kansas anymore! The Wizard of Oz has come to our Admin Building to give the kids we serve a special Halloween experience. Our staff have just as much fun as the kids!
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