Creating Smoke-Free Spaces - Adult Family Care Homes of Maine

Adult Family Care Homes of Maine is smoke-free!

In March 2022, Adult Family Care Homes of Maine, an assisted living facility with nine locations across five Maine counties, approved a complete smoke-free policy for all of their facilities. Adult Family Care Homes of Maine headquarters is located in Calais. “Having a [-n organization-wide] smoke-free policy will help keep everyone safe,” said Johnny Chambers, Adult Family Care Homes of Maine Administrator. Adult Family Care Homes of Maine also took advantage of Healthy Acadia’s mini-grant program which provided funding support to create a policy as well as free signage for their nine locations.

Is your business, school, or organization interested in developing a smoke-free policy, or updating a current policy? Healthy Acadia offers resources, including mini-grants to help.

Healthy Acadia’s substance prevention team can provide assistance with policy development, training for staff, free signage, AND mini-grant opportunities to help you adopt and implement model policies for your facility, staff, and patrons. We have model policy templates for businesses, youth-serving entities such as child care/ facilities and libraries, health facilities, including hospitals, vet clinics, behavior health, eye, and dental clinics, municipalities, apartment buildings/multi-unit housing, public spaces, and more. Learn more here.

If you are interested in creating a smoke free policy for your business or organization please reach out to Katie Sell in Washington County Katie.Sell@HealthyAcadia.org or Mia Petrini in Hancock County Mia@HealthyAcadia.org.

Healthy Acadia’s tobacco prevention initiatives are funded by Maine CDC, DHHS, Maine Prevention Services and MaineHealth Center for Tobacco Independence (CTI). CTI provides education and training on evidence-based tobacco treatment to healthcare and behavioral health professionals in Maine on behalf of the Maine CDC, DHHS.