Michelle Libby—pictured in the center, in pink, with the Century 21 team at 2019 Brews & Backpacks—is a Development Committee member and volunteer, who was inspired by the “significant, collaborative,…
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Spurwink’s centralized referral department, The Link, launched in April of 2015. The aim of the department is to improve operational excellence and programmatic effectiveness by ensuring accessibility, prompt response, and…
The Positive Youth Development Institute (PYDI) recently held their annual professional development conference entitled “Making Summer Count” in Augusta, and new this year was an inaugural Youth Development Advocate award….
Spurwink was delighted to welcome several elected officials including Governor Janet Mills and Senator Cathy Breen to our Chelsea campus on May 22. They met with Day Treatment and Residential…
Spurwink was recently awarded a grant from the Western Mountains Fund at the Maine Community Foundation to build a therapeutic community garden at Spurwink’s Cornville campus. The garden will help…
Joyce Wientzen is the Program Director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Families and the Cumberland County Children’s Advocacy Center. She has been with Spurwink for almost 25 years….
Spurwink’s A Family for ME (AFfME) foster care recruitment campaign was awarded a Broderson Award in May, 2019. The Broderson’s are Maine’s premier advertising award, recognizing creative excellence in advertising,…
Eric and David Stearns came to know Spurwink’s foster care program in 2014. They had a goal of becoming a permanent home for a young man named Ethan, who they…
Valued supporter since 2005, Spurwink is pleased to highlight Martin’s Point Health Care as a long-time Corporate Partner this month. Building and maintaining healthy communities in Maine is at the…
Ben Strick is the Director of Adult Behavioral Health and has been with Spurwink for about twelve and a half years. When he’s not busy leading the adult program or…