There’s nothing extra-ordinary about the Adams House. It’s a big green house with six bedrooms, three bathrooms, two adults, three kids, a dog, and a back yard. And depending upon…
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Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening. -Emma Thompson Teenagers. Angry kids. Youth. Misunderstood kids. Though now…
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The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office has honored Joyce Wientzen, LCSW, Spurwink ‘s Child Abuse Program Director and Director of the Cumberland County Children’s Advocacy Center (CCCAC), for her commitment to…
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"The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." Therese Littleton Data. Numbers. Thinking about them. Being the Director of…
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May is Foster Family Recognition Month, a time to pause and consider that there are nearly 2,000 children in foster care in Maine, and less than 1,500 foster homes. Children…
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Spurwink announces that Lawrence R. Ricci, MD, Medical Director, Spurwink Child Abuse Program in Portland was presented with the 2016 Ray E. Helfer Award in April. The Helfer Society—an…
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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.” David Foster Wallace Has this ever happened to you: Someone you know urges you…
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Spurwink announces that Lawrence R. Ricci, MD, Medical Director, Spurwink Child Abuse Program in Portland was presented with the 2016 Ray E. Helfer Award in April. The Helfer Society—an international…
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"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Though Mother’s Day just passed, I am aware that I…
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Being an Elementary-level Special Education Teacher is both the easiest and most difficult job of my career. The easiest because it is what I am meant to do, my niche,…
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