This past summer two Spurwink Services employees—Daniel Dusabimana and Joseph Mushishi—were awarded Maine Development Foundation (MDF) 2015 Next Step Maine Scholarships. A fund designed to recognize “Employees of Promise” who…
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September is National Recovery Month. Definition of recovery: Deeply personal, unique process of changing one’s attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills and/or roles (Bill Anthony, 1993) If you are in recovery…
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Since 2010, Ben Dearnley, owner and farmer of Life Force Farm a diversified organic vegetable CSA in Bowdoinham, has been working at Spurwink's Chelsea Day Treatment School to expand its therapeutic…
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Thanks to a collaborative Spurwink Glickman Academy vocational summer program that partners with local businesses to provide special needs students with supervised work experience, 15-year-old Glickman student Maia gained invaluable paid…
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"There is a no grief like the grief that does not speak." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This week marks National Suicide Prevention week and Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Suicide touches…
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When my then 5-year-old said something exceedingly adorable, I rhetorically asked, “Where did you come from?” to which he replied, “I don’t know mommy where did I come from?” Thinking…
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