Sweetser peer support services power personal recovery.
PEER SUPPORT LINE 
Call the Peer Support Line 24/7 from anywhere in Maine at 1-866-771-9276 (WARM).
The Peer Support Line is available toll-free from anywhere in Maine, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is a mental health peer-to-peer phone support line for adults, aged 18 and older, offering mutual conversations with a trained peer specialist who has life experience with mental health recovery. The focus is to encourage and foster recovery, moving toward wellness and reconnecting with community. Particularly for people in recovery, these compassionate, helpful conversations can keep manageable issues from escalating into a crisis.
PEER SUPPORT IN EMERGENCY ROOMS
Sweetser provides trained intentional peer support specialists supporting adults 18+ with mental health and substance use challenges in hospital emergency rooms across the state.
RECOVERY COACHES
Sweetser has six recovery coaches delivering services across Franklin, York, Kennebec, and Oxford counties. These coaches support Mainers with substance use disorders by connecting them to community resources and harm reduction strategies that will support them in creating their self-determined pathway of recovery. Typically, recovery coaches have personal experience with substance use disorder and are trained to provide peer-based support to others. They are uniquely positioned to support individuals experiencing substance use by using their personal recovery journey to build meaningful connections through shared experiences. Recovery coaches serve as important resources who assist the recovering person in removing barriers to recovery.
INTEGRATED PEER TEAM
Sweetser has trained peer support integrated into community-based programs like Behavioral Health Homes and our Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.
Located at Sweetser’s Hope & Healing Center, 329 Bath Road, Brunswick, Maine, the new Peer Center is an inclusive community peer support space for the Midcoast Maine area. The center provides walk-in peer support for individuals experiencing mental health challenges, life stress, and trauma. You can just bring yourself—no payment, insurance, or full name is needed.
What We Offer
- Daily peer-run groups where participants can get support, advice, or just talk to people with similar experiences and challenges.
- One-on-one support from our trained peer specialists with lived experience.
- Engaging workshops on topics such as job hunting, education, nutrition, wellness, and financial well-being.
- A safe, restorative environment with access to books, games, resources, and a sense of belonging.
Peer Center Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Phone: 207-373-3005
Email: PeerCenter@sweetser.org
PEER TRAINING NETWORK
The Peer Training Network (PTN) provides recovery-based facilitator level training to peers participating, volunteering or working in behavioral
health settings throughout Maine. Technical assistance will be available for all facilitators trained through the PTN to host their own workshops, including help with logistics, registration and tracking, refresher training and webinars.
Become a peer specialist and support people in your community with their recovery. Peer-led recovery facilitator training is offered throughout Maine for Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialists (CIPSS) and other peer practitioners.
View upcoming training opportunities
Peer Training Network
190 Lancaster Street, Suite #30
Portland, ME 04101
Email: peertrainingnetwork@sweetser.org
Phone: 1-866-617-2346
ADDITIONAL RECOVERY RESOURCES
Peer support services, available when you need them. Promise.