We offer outpatient counseling services to residents suffering from addiction.

Beyond outpatient counseling, many clients are eligible for support from the Maine Driver Education & Evaluation Program (DEEP) offered by the State of Maine Office of Substance Abuse (OSA). Please visit their page, review the below document, or contact us for more information.

From the grassroots to the Governor’s office, Maine is coming together for those affected by the opioid epidemic. We are on a mission to save lives and strengthen communities, and we’re putting all the options on the table. Because if we want to give people a fighting chance, we need to keep them alive, safe, and supported throughout their journey of active use and recovery.

If your or a loved one are looking for more resources or information on substance use, please follow the community link below. We will reach out to you within 48 hours.

Community Referral

Behavioral Health Home services provide care coordination and education to support addressing mental and physical health concerns. Behavioral Health Home Services include comprehensive Care Management support, that focuses on addressing the client’s physical and behavioral health needs, and promotes community and home-based recovery. This team approach to treatment involves a care coordinator, peer and family supports, a nurse and engages primary care service providers with the goal of promoting wellness. This is a Maine Care funded service.

The center offers a relaxed atmosphere with support and socialization. Participants are welcomed and treated with respect and dignity. In addition to assistance linking participants to services located in the community based on need such as housing, behavioral health treatment and vocational rehabilitation services, participants have access to peer support, structured group support, and self-help activities. These services can help people overcome physical, economic and social barriers that they normally encounter.

The Beacon House Peer Recovery Center is open every day, Monday through Friday, from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Coffee and canteen service is always available, and lunch is available each Tuesday at noon.

The Beacon House Peer Recovery Center is a member of the Maine Association of Peer Support and Recovery Centers (MAPSRC) and is recognized as an evidence-based model of care through incorporation of community integration. Come see us at the Beacon House Peer RecoveryCenter. You will find many good, friendly people waiting to welcome you to our new vision of hope, support, and recovery.

The Beacon House is located at 3 Canal Street in Rumford (Muskie Bldg.) Call 207-369-0868 for more information, or email.

Case Managers at OCMHS help clients increase independence and quality of life by providing the support and motivation needed to deal with mental health issues.

Case Management clients complete a comprehensive assessment and then work with their case manager to identify specific goals. Goals are based on issues that are important to the client, and provide a step by step plan which will reduce barriers that have gotten in the way before. Case Managers then support clients in doing the work to achieve those goals.

Common Goal Areas:

Vocational

Housing

Medical

Financial

Legal

Social

Transportation

If you have a diagnosed mental health problem, or feel you may have one and have not yet been diagnosed, submit a referral to one of our offices in either Rumford or Norway, and we may be able to help. To make a referral call 207-364-3549.

Grant funds may be available if you do not currently have MaineCare.

OCCR provides county wide emergency outpatient mental health services on a 24/7 basis at agency offices, in the community and in hospitals. OCCR provides crisis intervention, aftercare, and referral services. Call 888-568-1112.

Aftercare
Aftercare services are a maximum of 5 sessions that are focused on resolving the problems identified in the first contact with OCCR staff. These sessions are part of crisis resolution services and commence with the “day after” telephone call or office visit with an Aftercare Counselor. Call us at 207-364-3030 to learn more.

Crisis Stabilization Unit
The Jane deFrees Health Center
The Assessment and Stabilization Unit, located in the Jane deFrees Health Center at 150 Congress Street in Rumford, is an inpatient alternative to hospital admission. The person receives a full assessment of their needs with a goal of returning home within 5 to 7 days. The emphasis is on rehabilitation. This is a fully modern ADA facility with fully qualified staff. The crisis stabilization unit provides needs assessment and stabilization, not hospitalization. Call us at 207-364-3030 to learn more.

For many adults diagnosed with major mental illness the issue of growth and recovery is severely limited by the inability to effectively modulate and manage emotions given any perceived “prompting event.” A prompting event is any internal or external stimuli that leads to emotion dysregulation (i.e. phone calls, community integration, mail delivery, peer interactions, flashbacks, anniversaries, natural disasters, or deaths).

The inability to regulate emotions creates a life of hopelessness and builds a life with no meaning for the individual. This will often lead to disruption and very often the dissolution of meaningful relationships either natural or professional. Additionally, this can lead to the perpetuation of the “revolving door phenomena” (the rapid and continual admission and discharge within an acute care facility) often seen within the mental health community.

Often times if the individual had been able to identify the prompting event, recognize the trigger, experience and accept the emotion in the moment, and accept the natural outcome of the situation, they would have been able to successfully manage and regulate their emotions.

The goal of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Group is most simply to assist an individual to create a validating environment in which the individual will manage any emotional dysregulation.

Outpatient Therapy offers a planned number of sessions that can be individual, group or family therapy. The focus is on the person developing insight into their life and developing new, more effective ways of thinking, feeling and acting so they can achieve their potential for a well balanced lifestyle.

Call 207-364-3549 for referral or admission information.

Andy’s Place, located in Rumford, is a community residence and rehabilitation program for people suffering from chronic and persistent mental illness. Long and short term goals are developed with the resident so they can participate in community living to the extent of their ability, assisted by staff in a caring and supportive manner. Call 207-364-3549 for referral or admission information.