Welcome, Amanda Newell

Please join us in welcoming Amanda Newell to the Healthy Acadia team! 

Amanda joins us as a Community Health Navigator, supporting the implementation of a system of care navigation through the HRSA PROSPER Initiative, serving individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) and their children from pregnancy through age eighteen, with a focus on the Passamaquoddy tribal community of Sipayik (Pleasant Point). Her college studies and work within her community drew her to the PROSPER objective.

Amanda, what prompted you to join the Healthy Acadia team?

I am excited to learn and to help the people within my community to the best of my ability.

What most inspires you about Healthy Acadia's work and your new role? 

I am very interested in learning skills that will help improve my community. What inspires me most is I can offer my people the support and resources that I never had to have a healthy life and to make better choices. I’m eager to provide support and help to my people in ways that will make it easier for them to be healthy.

What most inspires you on a personal level?

Giving my community more help to support recovery and have healthier lives.

What is your favorite thing to do, or place to be, in Maine, and why?

Spending time with family and going camping. My family is very supportive of me and without them I would not be where I am now living a better life.

“I am excited to be a part of the Healthy Acadia family and can't wait to complete all my trainings to become a host to a parenting class and to complete my training for becoming a recovery coach!”

Amanda is a member of the Passamaquoddy tribe at Sipayik (Pleasant Point).

Contact Amanda by email at amanda.newell@healthyacadia.org.