Welcome, Royal Gibbons

Please join us in welcoming Royal Gibbons, Jr. to the Healthy Acadia team! 

Royal joins our Emergency Housing Supports Team as support staff for our seasonal overnight warming center, located at Healthy Acadia’s INSPIRE Recovery Community Center in Ellsworth.

Support staff at the seasonal overnight warming center provide a warm and welcoming place for guests and connect them to additional community resources such as food pantries, recovery coaching, warm clothing, and other social supports. Our teams supports people by building trust, listening, and collaborating with partners.

Royal currently resides in Ellsworth.

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

I want to give back to people what the Inspire and warming center has done for me. I want to pay it forward.

What most inspires you about Healthy Acadia's work? 

The fact that they care about the homeless people and how they help with all different areas.

What most inspires you on a personal level?

Being where the people have been.

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

At Inspire, because they like my dog and I can learn alot of things from the staff there.

Connect with Royal at royal.gibbons@healthyacadia.org.