Resources

  • local crisis and non-crisis Resources

    Maine Crisis Line is for individuals or families experiencing a behavioral health crisis or having thoughts of suicide and/or self-harm. Call 1-888-568-1112 for support 24/7.

    988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline offers free, confidential, 24/7 access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing mental health-related distress.

    Intentional Peer Support Warmline is offers mutual conversations with a trained specialist who has life experience with mental health and/or substance use issues and recovery. Call 1-866-771-WARM.

    Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault Helpline is staffed by advocates who provide support and information to survivors of sexual assault, family members, and community members. Call or text 1-800-871-7741.

    Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence connects callers with advocates at our advocates who listen to callers, plan for safety, navigate complex systems, and connect people to resources. Call or text 1-866-834-HELP.

  • Non-Carceral Crisis support

    Thrive Lifeline offers 24/7 text-based crisis support to anyone 18+ with specific focus on multiply marginalized communities. In crisis? Text: +1.313.662.8209.

    Blackline is a hotline geared toward the Black, Black LGBTQ+, brown, Native, and Muslim communities.

    Project LETS provides support by text for urgent issues that involve involuntary hospitalization.

    Trans Lifeline is a hotline for trans and questioning individuals.

    Wildflower Alliance has a peer support line and online support groups focused on suicide prevention.

  • Local Resources

    Pine Tree Legal provides self-help tools, legal consults, and some pro-bono legal representation in Maine.

    Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic represents low-income individuals with legal cases in Southern Maine courts for most kinds of civil, criminal, juvenile, and family law matters.

    Volunteer Lawyer Project connects people with volunteer lawyers to assist with civil legal problems.

    Church of Safe Injection a Maine-based harm reduction nonprofit that fights for the health, rights, and dignity of people who use drugs.

    Southern Maine Worker’s Center is a grassroots, member led organization working to improve the lives, working conditions, and terms of employment for working class and poor people in Maine.

    Maine TransNet supports and empowers transgender people to create a world where they can thrive.

    Out Maine builds the welcoming and affirming communities urgently needed for Maine’s LGBTQ+ youth.

    Equality Maine protects and advances full equality for all LGBTQ+ Mainers by creating an inclusive and intersectional movement through political action, community building, education, engagement and collaboration.

    Maine Access Points is a harm reduction organization, providing syringe access services, overdose prevention education and naloxone distribution, peer support, and advocacy throughout rural Maine.

    Equality Community Center is a collaborative workplace for LGBTQ+ and allied social justice seeking non-profit organizations.

  • Affordable Therapy and other healthcare providers

    Open Path Psychotherapy Collective provides affordable in-person and online mental health care to those without insurance and limited income.

    The Mental Health Liberation BIPOC Therapy Fund is our community’s offering: to provide free, quality therapy for BIPOC adults living in the so-called “US”.

    Maine Queer Health is a resource that centralizes information about LGBTQ+ health, insurance coverage, and a database of LGBTQ+ friendly health and wellness providers.

    Maine Family Planning provides affordable reproductive health care services for all Mainers, as well as primary care, help for new parents and families, and gender-affirming health services.

    Planned Parenthood provides holistic reproductive healthcare including gender affirming care.

    Mabel Wadsworth Center provides healthcare using a feminist model focused on sexual and reproductive health through education, advocacy, and clinical services.

    Health Equity Alliance offers a variety of vital services, advocating for and meeting the needs of people in Maine living with HIV/AIDS, those in need of sexual health and wellness services, and people who use drugs.

    Disability Rights Maine provides information, referrals, individual advocacy, legal representation, education, training, an assistance with self-advocacy.

    Frannie Peabody Center empowers and supports people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS in Maine through integrative care, education, advocacy, and prevention services.

  • Peer Support

    Yarrow Collective offers peer-led support groups with the vision of a community where coercive care is not needed.

    Kiva Centers offers daily online peer support groups.

    Peer Support Space hosts virtual peer support groups twice a day Monday through Saturday.

    Wildflower Alliance has a peer support line and online support groups focused on suicide prevention.

    Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens.

  • Other Resources

    Free Guided Meditations are available here and here.

    Institute for the Development of Human Arts provides transformative mental health education and community development.

    Sea Change Yoga bring the powerful benefits of yoga to people who don't have access in Maine.