Maine Alliance for Recovery Coaching
Healthy Acadia, with support from Maine’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHS), launched the Maine Alliance for Recovery Coaching (Maine-ARC) in July 2019, to support volunteer-driven, community recovery coaching services across Downeast Maine. Today, in collaboration with community partners, we offer recovery coaching and recovery supports in Hancock, Kennebec, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo and Washington counties.
Through Maine-ARC, Healthy Acadia and partners collaborate with health care and treatment centers, jails, drug courts, pre-release sites, social service, and law enforcement agencies, and other community partners to implement highly effective, community-based recovery coaching systems to support those seeking recovery from substance use disorders, with an emphasis on opioid use disorders.
Maine-ARC partners work together to develop effective, far-reaching, volunteer-based peer recovery coaching programs that promise to build healthier communities and help people succeed in their recovery journeys.
Healthy Acadia coordinates recovery coaching and support programs through Maine Alliance for Recovery Coaching’s community volunteer recovery coach program and Maine Recovery Core, our internship-based recovery coach program. We have coaches serving in ten Maine counties across northern, central, and eastern Maine: Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo, and Washington.
Recovery Coach Program Site Coordinators
Maine Recovery Core
Kristé Sprague, Maine Recovery Core Director: Kristé.Sprague@HealthyAcadia.org; 207-412-2288 Ext. 404 • 207-352-2075
Maine-ARC Community Volunteer Recovery Coach Program
Hancock County Recovery Coach Program
Donna Mitchell, Hancock County Recovery Coach Site Coordinator: Donna@HealthyAcadia.org; 207-460-0229
Kennebec County Recovery Coach Program
Mackenzie Kelley, Kennebec County Recovery Coach Site Coordinator: Mackenzie.Kelley@HealthyAcadia.org; 207-852-7487
Washington County Recovery Coach Program
Gretchen Harrington, Washington County Recovery Coach Site Coordinator: Gretchen@HealthyAcadia.org; 207-479-6287
We contract with the following organizations in Kennebec, Somerset, and Waldo counties to lead recovery coach coordination in their respective counties:
Somerset County Recovery Coach Program: Kennebec Behavioral Health
Stacy Austin, Somerset County Recovery Coach Site Coordinator: saustin@kbhmaine.org; 207-474-8368 Ext. 3621
Waldo County Recovery Coach Program: Volunteers of America - Belfast Regional Re-entry Center
Molly Riddle, Waldo County Recovery Coach Site Coordinator: molly.riddle@voanne.org; 207-705-4132
For more information about the Maine-ARC program, contact:
Denise Black: Denise@HealthyAcadia.org; 207 412-2288 Ext.402
Terri Woodruff: Terri@HealthyAcadia.org; 207-255-3741 Ext. 106