Health & Prevention Services

Adult Behavioral Health Services

DHHS behavioral health services can help connect you with information on prevention, treatment, and recovery services for mental health and substance use disorders.

Learn more about behavioral health services.

Children’s Behavioral Health Services

These services include providing information and assistance with referrals for children and youth with developmental disabilities/delays, intellectual disability, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and mental health disorders.

Learn more about children’s behavioral health services.

Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention

Information for parents, homeowners, landlords, and health care providers on preventing childhood lead poisoning.

Learn more about childhood lead poisoning in Maine.

Free Lead Test Kits

Disease Prevention

Information on Maine CDC’s prevention programs for topics such as asthma, cancer, suicide, tobacco, substance use, gambling, and more.

Learn more about Maine’s Disease Prevention programs.

Prevention for ME

Health Insurance Options

Learn more about free and low-cost health Insurance options in Maine.

Healthy Homes

Resources on home-related health issues such as pests, carbon monoxide, asthma, radon, mold, well water and more

Learn more about healthy homes.

Private Well Water Testing

Information on testing your private well for arsenic and other harmful chemicals.

Learn more about well water testing.

Health Inspection Program

The Health Inspection Program provides licensing and inspection services to help protect the public’s health. The program works with restaurants, mobile food vendors, caterers, commissaries, business enterprise PR, senior citizen meal sites, vending companies, lodging, campgrounds, sporting and recreational camps, youth camps, public swimming pools and spas, tattooists, micropigmentation, body piercers, electologists, school cafeterias, correctional facility kitchens, tobacco, compressed air and mass gatherings.

Learn more about Maine’s Health Inspection Program and business licensing from the Maine CDC.

Additional Prevention Resources

For additional health and prevention services visit the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention website.