On our latest Mental Health Moment segment on WMTW Channel 8, Sweetser’s Senior Director of Public Relations & Advancement, Justin Chenette, spoke about our upcoming Spring Into Hope Fashion Show event happening in Old Orchard Beach.
Tickets available here: https://marketing.wmtw.com/springintohope2025
Sweetser’s Brunswick Hope & Healing Center proudly hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony with our friends at the Bath-Brunswick Regional Chamber of Commerce to celebrate the grand opening of our new full-service on-site pharmacy. Local community members, partner representatives, Sweetser team members, and our board member Jay McCreight were all there to highlight this important addition to the region.
Housing a pharmacy with our partner Genoa Healthcare at our Brunswick CCBHC will reduce barriers for our clients and strengthen the coordination between our team and the pharmacist both for treatment medication, but also overall wellbeing.
This type of partnership in other states has yielded to 90% medication adherence rates, 40% fewer hospitalizations, and 18% fewer ER visits.
Our new pharmacy will provide added convenience for clients and staff alike and will eventually open its doors to welcome the public. We deeply appreciate the hard work of our Senior Director of Community Services, Joey Rossignol, and his team in bringing this partnership together.
Our pharmacy is located at our Hope & Healing Center at 329 Bath Road in Brunswick and our hours are: 8:30am to 5pm, Monday – Friday; closed for lunch 12:30pm – 1pm.
Sweetser’s Senior Director of Public Relations & Advancement, Justin Chenette, appeared on the TV show Saco River Chronicles to discuss Sweetser’s latest programs and available resources for those in the area. The show is broadcast in select towns throughout York County on the Saco River Television channel. Check out this segment to hear the latest.
Our Senior Director of Public Relations & Advancement Justin Chenette stopped by Inside Maine’s Best with WGME’s Adrienne Stein for a segment about mental health resources and how our Hope & Healing Centers are reducing barriers to accessing care.
Watch below.
Recently, Sweetser’s President & CEO Jayne Van Bramer joined with other partner organizations as part of the Behavioral Health Priorities Coalition to release the legislative package we are advocating for this session. Some of our priority legislation includes bills like An Act to Expand Child Assertive Community Treatment and An Act to Provide Grants to Schools That Contract for Behavioral and Mental Health Services.
View the full legislative package below:
Sweetser’s longtime Educator & Farm Manager Julia Birtolo was a guest on WMTW’s Mental Health Moment where she discussed the amazing experiences students at our K-12 Special Purpose School in Saco get to have out on our farm.
Sweetser has been out front on the current $118 million MaineCare funding shortfall the state is currently faced with. Sweetser’s Chief Financial Officer John McAnuff has been crisscrossing multiple media outlets to make the case for why it’s critical for providers like us to be made whole and avoid any delays in MaineCare payments. While the supplemental budget failed to get to 2/3’s support, legislative leadership is proposing a MaineCare fix as part of the regular budget process. We remain hopeful for a solution. See articles and clips below…
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“The clients that we serve are not numbers on a spreadsheet,” McAnuff said. “They are real people with real challenges, and disruptions in service will negatively impact their lives and the communities in which they live.”
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“We are greatly concerned that this will impact Mainers in all parts of the state,” Sweetser Chief Financial Officer John McAnuff said.
Take a listen to our latest radio Mental Health Minute with Lori Voornas from 94.9 WHOM discussing Sweetser’s Special Purpose K-12 School.
Maine’s legislative session is in full swing at the state house in Augusta. Sweetser’s President & CEO Jayne Van Bramer appeared on WMTW’s Mental Health Moment segment with Meghan Torjussen to discuss how various pieces of legislation will impact the entire behavioral health system including:
✅Passing the supplement budget with 2/3’s support to avoid a delay in MaineCare reimbursements
✅Expanding Child ACT teams to Lewiston & Bangor sponsored by Representative Lori Gramlich
✅Addressing workforce challenges by forming a task force
✅Fixing the pipeline of clinicians through automatic licensure reciprocity And more!
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