About us

Our Mission 

We empower people and organizations as we build healthy communities together.

Our Vision

We envision vibrant communities where people thrive and healthful resources are easily accessible.

Our Service Area

We serve Washington and Hancock counties, and we provide additional community health support and leadership across Maine.

Our Guiding Values

  • COLLABORATION: We are committed to collaboration and partnership across sectors and throughout our service area, knowing that we do our best work by building trust, listening to one another, partnering together, and sharing resources, knowledge, and skills.

  • COMPASSION: We demonstrate kindness, respect, and humility in our work with the individuals and groups we serve, as well as our colleagues, partners, and supporters, and ourselves.

  • EXCELLENCE:​ We strive to excel in all that we do and to confront each challenge with a determination to seek the knowledge and skills that will help us achieve our goals.

  • HEALTH EQUITY: We believe that all people must have access to resources and conditions that support their best health and wellbeing. We commit to continually learn, to create opportunities and environments that help all people thrive, and to address health disparities and inequities within our organization and across our communities.

  • INTEGRITY: ​We operate with integrity and honesty in all that we do.

  • SERVICE: We are community-centered and work in ways that are creative and responsive to community needs.

  • STEWARDSHIP: We take full responsibility for the proper and ethical use of our resources.

Our Work

Healthy Acadia is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community health in Hancock and Washington counties. Since 2001, we have focused on identifying key health needs and addressing their root causes. We bring together partners from across the community, working with shared leadership from many sectors to create plans, take action, and improve overall health and well-being. Through collaboration and shared leadership, we work to address ongoing challenges and respond swiftly to urgent health concerns in our region.

The scope of our work encompasses eight general areas of focus:

  • Strong Beginnings to support healthy development and resilience from birth to adulthood;

  • Healthy Food for All to ensure that all people have access to nutritious, affordable food, and to make the healthy choice the easy choice;

  • Active and Healthy Environments to ensure that our indoor and outdoor spaces are safe, healthy, and promote physical activity and wellness;

  • Healthy Aging - to ensure that all of us can age well — with strength, dignity, comfort, and grace;

  • Substance Prevention and Recovery - to support people of all ages to live lives free of substance misuse and substance use disorder, and to support individuals throughout their recovery journey;

  • Health Promotion and Management - to improve community supports across a wide range of health needs, from cancer patient navigation and stress reduction to barrier removal for health challenges and chronic disease and pain self-management;

  • Basic Needs - to address adverse social conditions that contribute to poor health and health outcomes by improving access to resources that address unmet health-related social needs, including housing stability, safe transportation, nutritious food and safe water, resource navigation, barrier removal, and related supports; and

  • Health Equity - to remove obstacles and foster just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive communities to support the well-being of all people, regardless of background or circumstance.

Our History

For more than two decades, Healthy Acadia has worked together with hundreds of partners and thousands of community members across our region to address a wide range of locally identified health priorities. Together, we form partnerships, deliver education and public health services, and enhance policies, systems, and environments to create lasting, positive changes in the health and well-being of our communities. Together, we make health happen.

Click here to see how we’ve grown together in our first 20 years.