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SUPPORTING SPURWINK SERVICES
Thank you for Helping: 2022 School Supply Drive
 A huge thank you to all our Spurwinkians and dedicated community partners who contributed to this year’s school supply drive, raising over $1,000 in cash and gift cards, and collecting hundreds of school supplies. A special thank you to Boulos Asset Management and The Boulos Company, The Woods at Canco Senior Retirement Living, Volk Packaging Corporation & Volk Paxit, and Southern Maine Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for their employee drives and donations.
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OUT & ABOUT
Annual Northern New England Conference on Child Maltreatment
 Join us for the Annual Northern New England Conference on Child Maltreatment on October 20th & October 21st, in-person in Freeport, ME this year. The conference is intended for a multi-disciplinary audience, including professionals from the fields of nursing, mental health, law, child welfare, law enforcement, child advocacy, emergency services, medicine, and education.
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LEARN ABOUT SPURWINK SERVICES
Currently Onboarding New Providers (including fully remote!)
 Spurwink is in need of additional Affiliate Providers to keep up with the demand for mental health services. By becoming an Affiliate Provider, you can let Spurwink manage the back-office end of running a clinical practice! We're currently onboarding new providers remotely, and also supporting providers who only do remote therapy. Go the distance as a Spurwink Affiliate Provider!
 Did you know there is significant meaning behind Spurwink's logo? The eight shapes of the logo reference the eight boys who lived in the first Spurwink group home, in 1960. There's meaning in the negative space, colors, and what it symbolizes.
Spurwink Senior Director Appointed by Governor Mills to State Board & Appointed to Independent Panel
 Spurwink’s Senior Director of Adult Behavioral Health, Ben Strick, has recently been appointed to the State Board of Social Worker Licensure by Governor Janet Mills. Along with this appointment, Strick has also been appointed to the Independent Panel to Review the Use of Deadly Force by Law Enforcement Officers in September as that of a mental health professional.
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CORPORATE PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
USI & Gorham Savings Bank Volunteer to Make Classroom Bright for New School Year
 This past August, volunteers from our Corporate Partners at USI and Gorham Savings Bank picked up paint and brushes to brighten up our Glickman Academy classrooms! Schoolteachers had students pick out the new paint colors, and during summer vacation, the volunteers transformed the classrooms.
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Spurwink supports the civic engagement of our friends, colleagues and clients. As you know, the general election is on Tuesday, November 8, and it’s important to make a plan to vote. Absentee ballots are now available throughout our state and voter registration is available. Following is some voting information that we hope will be helpful to you leading up to November 8.
