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Abuse, crisis, Hotline numbers
- Hotlines/Crisis - A comprehensive listing of Hotlines and crisis numbers statewide.
- Adult Protective Services - Services to protect incapacitated and dependent adults (age 18 and over) in danger of abuse, neglect or exploitation.
- Child Abuse Action Network - The Child Abuse Action Network (CAAN) is a multi-disciplinary, public and private sector committee committed to enhancing the professional and public response to child abuse in Maine.
- Child Protective Services - The child abuse hotline is staffed 24 hours a day.
- Handbook for Parents - Describes rights parents have during a child abuse and neglect assessment.
- Known Abuse or Threat of Abuse - What Happens Next? - MC&FS has several options for response, depending on the specific family situation.
- Mandated Reporters - Information and resources for people who are required by law to report suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation.
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Adoption
- A Guide to Adoption Services in Maine - A list of licensed private adoption agencies in Maine, Maine adoption placement services, adoptive family support groups and other related adoption services.
- How Do I Adopt? - This is the step by step process for adopting a child in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
- Maine Adoption Reunion Registry - How adoptees and their birth families can attempt a reunion.
- Maine's
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Caregiver information
- Caregiver Information and Resources - Resources for family caregivers, including information on support groups, respite care and more.
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Child care
- Child Care Tax Credits - Tax credits that can benefit families with young children.
- Finding Child Care - Types of child care available in Maine and how to go about choosing child care.
- Child Care Facility Search - Statewide search for facilities in Maine
- Paying for Child Care - Ways to help families pay for child care.
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Child welfare
- ASPIRE/JET - Helping food stamp recipients find employment
- ASPIRE/TANF - Helps TANF recipients find employment.
- Child Support - Services including establishing paternity, finding non-custodial parents, and implementing and enforcing child support payments.
- Emergency Assistance - Providing benefits to families with children in emergency situations.
- Food Supplement (Food Stamps) - Helping low-income people buy food
- Head Start - Serving children from birth to age five whose families meet the Federal poverty guidelines.
- Health Insurance - Free or Low-Cost Health Insurance for Families with Children and Pregnant Women.
- Paternity Testing - Testing to determine the father of a child.
- TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) - Provides temporary cash assistance, training, employment services and child care assistance.
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OADS Disabilities
- Children's Behavioral Health Services - Provides information and referrals for children to their 21st birthday with developmental disabilities/delays, mental retardation, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)/autism and mental health disorders.
- Disability Grievance Process - If you are not getting what you think you should or you don’t agree with what you are getting from Mental Retardation Services or your other providers.
- MaineCare Services and Benefits - Benefits available to people with cognitive and physical disabilities.
- Disability Resource Directory - Directory of Clinical/Ancillary, Day, Employment, and Residential services listed by Maine Counties
- Disability Resources - Additional information outside of Maine's Department of Health and Human Services.
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Continuity of Operations
- Continuity of Operations Plan - The plan is designed for use in any severe operational crisis of any kind.
Disease reporting
- Disease Reporting - Disease reports from community practitioners and laboratories
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Education
- Educational Opportunities - Programs for the elderly, including adult education, elderhostel, Senior College, and the University system.
- English as a Second Language - A listing of school and community resources that offer english classes.
- English as a Second Language Programs for K-12 students
- Head Start - Serving children from birth to age five whose families meet the Federal poverty guidelines.
- Maine Driver Education and Evaluation Programs - Driver education programs for OUI offenders.
- Parents as Scholars - Monthly benefits for parents who are full-time students in a two year or four year postsecondary program.
- Post-Secondary Education Tuition Waiver - Tuition waivers for qualified students in the care of Maine's Department of Health and Human Services
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Employment
- ASPIRE/JET - Helping food stamp recipients find employment
- ASPIRE/TANF - Helps TANF recipients find employment.
- Career Opportunities - Employment opportunities with Maine's Department of Health and Human Services
- DHHS Jobs - Job openings within Maine's Department of Health and Human Services.
- Job
Opportunities
- Jobs in Maine - Maine
Job Fairs - CareersCenter listing with locations and dates.
- Maine
State Government Summer Internship Program - A full-time, 12-week, paid work experience combining work experience with an educational program.
- Minors
Work Permit - The law on Minors obtaining a work permit.
- Senior Community Services Employment Program - Employment opportunities for people 55 and older
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Environmental Health
- Childhood Lead Program - Identifying and helping children with elevated blood lead levels.
- Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory - Individual specimen testing and epidemiological mapping and statistical analysis.
- Subsurface Wastewater Program - Information, permits, site inspections, etc.
- Well Water Quality - Advice to private well owners on well water safety, including help interpreting well water tests by phone (toll-free)
Food, money, housing
- 2-1-1
Maine - Statewide social services
- Assisted Living Facilities - A searchable listing of Assisted Living Facilities in Maine.
- Consumer
Credit Counseling Services of Maine - Provides the residents of Maine with financial counseling, debt repayment plans, and consumer education.
- Emergency Assistance - Providing benefits to families with children in emergency situations.
- Food Supplement (Food Stamps) - Helping low-income people buy food
- Homeless
Shelters - Maine homeless shelters with contact names and phone numbers.
- Housing Resources - Assisting persons with mental health issues in securing safe, decent, and affordable housing
- Maine
State Housing Authority - Assisting first-time homebuyers, home repair, rental housing, special needs, and the homeless.
- Maine
Subsidized Housing - Information for low income people in need of subsidized housing or emergency shelters; to renters; and to landlords.
- Nutrition for Older People in Maine - Congregate and Home Delivered meals, with links to Maine's Area Agencies on Aging.
- Property
Tax and Rent Refund - Eligible Maine residents can receive a partial refund of property taxes and/or rent paid on their primary residence.
- Public Assistance Application - Applications for foodstamps, TANF, PaS, MaineCare, Long-term care, request for assistance.
- Rights
of Tenants in Maine - An overview of Maine's landlord-tenant laws.
- Search for a senior dining site - A searchable listing of dining sites throughout the state.
- TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) - Provides temporary cash assistance, training, employment services and child care assistance.
- Women, Infants, and Children's Nutrition Program (WIC) - Free nutrition advice, tips for staying healthy, recipes, and resources for growing families.
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Foster care
- Adoptive
and Foster Families of Maine - Providing support services for adoptive and foster parents and kinship providers.
- Foster Parenting - Department of Health and Human Services information about and links to information about adoptive and foster parenting.
- Levels of Care - A process for assessing the service needs of all Maine children currently in foster care and new children entering foster care.
- Maine
Caring Families - A therapeutic foster care program for certain children in the Department's custody.
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Guardianship
- For people with cognitive disabilities - Resources for families and friends of adults with disabilities.
- For Other Adults - Guardianship & conservatorship information and resources
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Health/Safety
- A Guide to Prescription Drugs in Maine
- Alzheimer's Information - Includes resources on related dementias.
- Asthma Control and Prevention
- Cardiovascular
Health - Providing health education to Maine residents.
- Caregiver Information - If you are providing care for a loved one, you are faced with an enormous amount of responsibility and work. Often there are no others there to help you, and you have little time to take care of your own needs. This page includes some resources which may be helpful.
- Childhood Lead Program - Identifying and helping children with elevated blood lead levels.
- Children's Behavioral Health Services - Providing services to children with special needs, including developmental disabilities/delays, Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD)/autism, substance abuse and mental health disorders.
- Children Behavioral Health Services Provider list - Includes contact information and the areas each agency serves.
- Children With Special Health Needs Program - Improving the health and well-being of children with special health needs.
- Community Health Centers - Providing medical services to people on a sliding fee scale.
- Coordinating
School Health Programs - Maine's School Health Program.
- Diabetes Prevention and Control
- Disease Specific Information
- Eating Disorders Prevention and Treatment in Maine - Topics include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating.
- Fish and Game - Warnings on eating fish and game.
- Health Equity - Promoting health and wellness in Maine's racial and ethnic minority communities.
- HIV, STD, and Viral Hepatitis - Data, disease reporting, forms, publications, care and prevention.
- HIV/AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) - Assisting qualified residents get HIV-related medications free of charge.
- Home Safety
- Immunization
Schedules - Childhood & Adolescent Immunization Schedules.
- Immunizations and Vaccines - Information about the types of child immunization and vaccination.
- Injury Prevention - Injury is the leading cause of death among our youngest citizens, accounting for approximately 30% of all years of life lost before age 65.
- Katie Beckett Option - Katie Beckett is a MaineCare option for children with serious health conditions. It is one of the many ways your child can get MaineCare.
- Low Cost Drugs for the Elderly and Disabled - Eligibility and benefits.
- Lyme Disease
- Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program - An early detection program.
- Maine
Youth Suicide Prevention Program - Education, resources, and support.
- MaineCare benefits for members under 21 - Answers to questions about: body changes; weight and eating habits; HIV, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; alcohol and drug use; birth control information; signs of illness.
- MaineCare Services and Benefits for people with cognitive and physical disabilities
- Maine Rx Plus - Reducing the cost of prescription drugs for qualifying Mainers.
- Medicare Information - If you are 65 and over and receive Social Security Retirement or Railroad Retirement benefits you are eligible to receive Medicare to help pay certain medical expenses.
- Oral Health
- Partnership
For A Tobacco-Free Maine (PTM) -
Creating an environment supportive of a tobacco-free life.
- Physical Activity and Nutrition Program - Working towards improving nutrition and increasing physical activity
- Prescription Drugs
- Sex
Offender Registry - Registered offenders currently within Maine.
- Teen and Young Adult Health Program - Ensuring all adolescents have skills and access to services, information, and supports that promote healthy life choices
- Traffic Safety
- Tuberculosis - Surveillance of TB disease throughout the State.
- Water Testing - Order water test kits online, water test guides and applications
- West Nile Virus (arbovirus) - Advice on protection and treatment methods.
- Youth Gambling
- Youth Suicide Prevention - Reducing suicidal behavior among Maine youth.
- Youth Violence Prevention - Helping schools conduct conflict management, peer mediation, and bullying prevention programs.
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Independence
- Chafee Foster Care Independence Program - Services available to prepare older youth in care to live "interdependently" in the community
- Maine
Transition Network - Supports youth with disabilities in making meaningful choices as they transition to adulthood by promoting collaboration within communities.
- State Independent Living Program - Offers youth the opportunity to develop their special talents and abilities
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Insurance
- MaineCare - A list of services covered, eligibility, cost, and application questions on applying for Maine Care insurance.
- MaineCare Services and Benefits for people with cognitive and physical disabilities
- Maine SHIP (State Health Insurance Program) - Provides information on general Medicare issues, including Medicare Prescription Drug coverage.
- Medicare Savings Program - A State program that will help you pay your Medicare Part B Premium.
- Senior Medicare Patrol - Educate yourself about Medicare and MaineCare and how you can help identify and reduce errors, fraud, waste and abuse.
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Legal issues
- Adult Guardianship & Conservatorship - Questions and Answers - About the adult guardianship and conservatorship process.
- Aging: Taking Care of Business - Advance directives, durable power of attorney, guardianship & conservatorship, and more.
- Attorney
Generals Office - Services and information regarding your rights and responsibilities.
Includes information on: - Legal
Services for the Elderly - Providing free legal services to Maine's socially and economically needy elderly age 60 and over.
- Maine
Family Drug Treatment Court - a special court docket located in the Maine District Courts that focuses on families battling substance abuse.
- Maine Laws for People under 21 - The law on furnishing liquor or imitation liquor to a minor, Maine liquor liability act, and financial implications.
- Maine
Laws Governing the Employment of Minors -
General information on Maine child labor laws.
- Minors
Work Permit -
The law on Minors obtaining a work permit.
- Pine
Tree Legal - Providing free legal services to low-income Maine people.
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Long-term Care
- Adult Day Services - Adult Day Services provide social and health services designed to meet individual needs. Services may include: meals; social, physical and educational activities; information and referral; assistance with personal care and activities of daily living; and health monitoring. Includes an Adult Day search site.
- Aging and Disability Resource Center - "One-stop-shops" to answer questions from older adults, or from any individuals with disabilities, about a wide range of in-home, community-based, and institutional services.
- Assisted Living Facilities - A searchable listing of Assisted Living Facilities in Maine.
- Financial Eligibility - If you can't afford to pay for medical care right now, MaineCare may make it possible for you to get the care that you need so that you can get healthy - and stay healthy. Some MaineCare services, such as nursing home care and in-home services require you to be both financially and medically (see above) eligible.
- Long-term Care
- Medical Eligibility Assessment (MeCare) - A free assessment used to determine medical eligibility for a number of long-term care programs. (Note: the assessment is required of all people interested in entering a nursing home.)
- Nursing
Home Compare - A Medicare site with information on nursing homes that are Medicare or Medicaid certified.
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Mental Health
- Adult Mental Health Services Information and resources, including:
- Housing Resources - Assisting persons with mental health issues in securing safe, decent, and affordable housing
- Provider List
- Geriatric Mental Health Services - Services for older adults
- Legal issues
- Wellness & Recovery - To better understand what a system of recovery-oriented care means in practice and how that system helps individuals in their own recovery journey
- Related Links - Federal Agencies, other related sites, Mental Health Research, Training and Technical Assistance Centers, etc.
- Grievance Process Guide for recipients of mental health services
- Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center - State psychiatric hospitals under the DHHS located in the Bangor area.
- Riverview Psychiatric Center - State psychiatric hospitals under the DHHS located in the Augusta area.
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Phone Numbers
- DHHS Phone Numbers - Maine Department of Health and Human Services directory of offices and services.
- Aging Services - Aging related phone directory.
- Statewide Services - Phone number listing for services located throughout the state.
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Substance Abuse/Drinking/Drugs
- Finding Help
- Brain Research - The effect of alcohol on a developing teen's brain.
- Eating Disorders Prevention and Treatment in Maine
- Maine
Family Drug Treatment Court - a special court docket located in the Maine District Courts that focuses on families battling substance abuse.
- Maine Laws for People under 21 - The law on furnishing liquor or imitation liquor to a minor, Maine liquor liability act, and financial implications.
- Substance Abuse - Information and resources including:
- DEEP Program - Maine Driver Education and Evaluation Programs for OUI Offenders
- Online self help groups - Support group meetings in Maine.
- Programs and Services in Maine - A searchable directory of licensed alcohol and drug abuse treatment agencies and prevention programs.
- Partnership for a Drug-Free Maine - Working with the media to prevent substance abuse.
- Partnership
for a Tobacco-Free Maine (PTM) - Tobacco prevention and control.
- Teens and Alcohol
- Teens and Marijuana
- Youth Gambling - Motives for adolescent gambling
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Suicide
Vital Records
- Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Certificates - How to obtain certified copies.
- Online database search - research marriages (1892 -1996 (except 1967 to 1976) and death for the years 1960 to 1996
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