Penobscot Nation’s Healing to Wellness Court weaves cultural connections into drug court program
Rhonda Decontie grew up tagging along with her father, Frank Decontie, an addiction recovery counselor, to 12-step meetings where she would recite The Serenity Prayer along with the adults. They lived...
How does a girl from Lewiston get sexually trafficked?
And then become a leader in the recovery movement?
Tricia Grant grew up exposed to alcohol, drugs, and sexual abuse and, by the time she was 12, she was struggling with housing stability. At 14, she...
A former convent in Lewiston is now a safe haven for a small community of women
Women who have survived a trifecta of traumatic, adverse experiences—sex trafficking or exploitation, addiction, and incarceration.
“We’re more than a sober house,” said Sophia House founder Klara Tammany, who...
Courageous men learning to be in compassion
Six times a week, ten men walk into Stephen Andrew’s office on Middle Street in Portland, slip off their shoes, sit in a circle and do something that takes some courage at first—they talk about their...
Maine’s Director of Opioid Response steps in to help get a recovery community center for Millinocket
Gordon Smith
was breezing past his desk one day this past spring when the phone rang. “It was unusual,” says Maine’s Director of Opioid...
When home is an unabridged island, people in recovery turn to creative means to access support services
While life on one of Maine’s 15 unabridged islands can seem idyllic, the reality in geographic isolation, with a finite number of fellow islanders, can lead...
