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 Wish List, below, would be greatly appreciated. All are accepted in new or like-new condition - pre-loved is fine! - unless specifically indicated. Thank you!

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?:

  • Wigs 

  • Hats

  • Scarves

  • Socks

  • Lap blankets

  • Puzzle and coloring books, as well as colored pencils

  • Cloths, thread, and elastic materials to enable volunteers to make hats and other headdressings.

    • Extras from a home sewing project are welcome.

  • Stuffing to enable volunteers to make pillows 

    • Extras from a home sewing project are welcome.

  • Blank note cards for kids to write and 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. 

This program has a current need for the following items:

  • Chest freezers  - We could potentially use two larger capacity, rectangular chest freezers. One would be housed in Ellsworth and the other in Machias. 

Backpacks for Recovery Program

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.

  • Backpacks 

  • Hats 

  • Gloves 

  • Women’s sports bras 

    • New, or in like-new condition. Medium, large, and extra-large currently needed.

New and unopened:

  • Women’s and men’s underwear

    • Women’s underwear is a high need item currently. Boxers needed for men’s underwear.

  • Women’s and men's socks 

  • Face masks 

  • Shampoo and conditioner 

  • Toothbrushes and toothpaste 

  • Denture care items 

  • Women’s and men’s razors and 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 

Safe Harbor

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: 

  • Adult-sized warm socks, mittens, hats, and scarves

  • Laundry detergent - This is an expensive item for house residents and an ongoing need for Safe Harbor.

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.

POSTTracey CarlsonCE, SPR, SB, HA, HFFA, AHE, HPM