Are You Thinking of Giving to Healthy Acadia?
Are you thinking of giving to Healthy Acadia? Consider gifting an item from our Wish List. Many of our program areas can benefit from donations of specific items to continue and improve available services. Your gift of an item on our Wishlist, below, would be greatly appreciated. All are accepted in new or like-new condition - pre-loved is fine! - unless specifically indicated. Thank you!
Recovery Backpack Program; INSPIRE Recovery Community Center
Healthy Acadia’s Recovery Backpack Program provides basic essentials to individuals in recovery from substance use disorder and working with Healthy Acadia's Recovery coaches. Backpack recipients include recoverees who are facing homelessness or have had to leave a situation in an urgent manner and individuals that are just being released from jail who often have only the clothes they were wearing at the time of incarceration. Each backpack includes basic toiletries, personal hygiene items, new undergarments, socks, a pair of pants, a shirt, a pair of boots, and a coat.
Your gift of one or more items listed below will support someone on their recovery journey. Thank you.
New, like new, or gently used (without holes or stains):
Backpacks
Hats
Gloves
King-size Bed Sheet Sets
Blankets
Tents
Tarps
Sleeping bags
New and unopened:
Undergarments:
Women’s sports bras/bras and panties
Men’s boxers/briefs
Women’s and men's socks
Toiletries and Personal Care Items:
Shampoo and conditioner
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Dental Floss
Mouthwash
Denture care items
Women’s and men’s razors, shaving cream
Only small shaving creams, please. Men’s razors should have more than a single blade.
Soap and body wash
Deodorant
Hair brushes and combs
Fingernail clippers/emery boards
Hair scrunchies
Sample size laundry detergent
Hand warmers
Cancer Patient Navigation
Healthy Acadia’s Downeast Cancer Patient Navigation Program provides patient-centered cancer care and resource navigation and coordinated cancer prevention, education, and early detection services. This includes access to care packages to support cancer patients who would benefit from this resource.
Can you give an item listed here and help make things a little easier for someone in our region who is living with cancer?
New, like new, or gently used (minimal signs of wear, without holes, stains, etc.):
Scarves
Socks
Lap blankets
Blank note cards for children to write and for cancer patients to receive
New and unopened:
Chapstick
Hand sanitizer
Downeast Gleaning Initiative
Healthy Acadia’s Downeast Gleaning Initiative helps to reduce food insecurity by coordinating farm-based gleaning opportunities throughout Hancock and Washington counties. We connect volunteers with farms, orchards, farmers’ markets, and community gardens to collect surplus fruits and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste. We then manage the distribution of fresh produce to food pantries, community meal sites, rehabilitation programs, school backpack programs, and other community organizations.
Towels for covering produce. We like these unbleached flat cloth diapers (they are the perfect size for our produce crates!)
Sharpies/permanent markers
Painters tape - light green is ideal. Example
Biodegradable dish soap
Dish scrub brushes
Gift certificates to hardware stores
Waterproof apron for washing crates and produce. Example
Safe Harbor Recovery Home for Women and Children
Safe Harbor Recovery Home for Women and Children is the only certified recovery residence in Washington County and serves women from across the region. The house provides wraparound support for women in all stages of recovery and is one of the only houses in Maine where mothers can live together with their children.
The Safe Harbor team has identified the following wishlist items:
Mittens and gloves
Winter hats
Scarves
Laundry detergent
New bath towels
Personal care items
Household cleaning products
Toilet paper
Paper towels
To donate an item from our wish list, please contact Shoshona at Development@HealthyAcadia.org or (207) 667-7171 Ext. 210. For more ways to give, click here.
To donate an item from our wish list, please contact Shoshona at Development@HealthyAcadia.org or (207) 667-7171 Ext. 210. For more ways to give, click here.
From our community partners:
DownEast Recovery Support Center
The DownEast Recovery Support Center, located in downtown Machias, is an AMHC service funded by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy Acadia’s Recovery Core team offers Recovery Coaching support and resources for community members accessing the Center. The Center has identified the following needs for the winter season:
Blankets
Hats
Mittens
Hand warmers
Donations for the Center may be delivered to Downeast Recovery Support Center, 11 Free Street Machias, during their regular hours of operation.