Make a Difference
Please join us in strengthening our community by donating today. Our commitment is to make a meaningful difference in lives of those within our community by empowering them and teaching them how to implement positive changes in an environment of confidentiality and trust. We treat everybody, regardless of ability to pay, including those without insurance or adequate insurance coverage, as well as immigrants and seasonal workers.
We pride ourselves in our experienced and highly capable staff. We have prioritized organization and goal-setting as critical facets of our business plan, and welcome scrutiny as we continue to improve our financial stability and transparency.
You can either click the Donate button to be redirected to our online donation form, or you may send a check to the address below. Please be sure to designate whether your contribution is towards a specific fundraiser or a general donation. You may make a one time donation, or a recurring contribution., via the button below.
Acadia Family Center
PO Box 807
Southwest Harbor, Maine 04679
Attn: Advancement Department
Smashing the mental health and substance use stigma one tulip at a time!
Business or local organization?
Help us ”Smash the Stigma”!
Will you join us in creating a visible symbol of hope? This fall we will be planting a Hope Garden, on the side of our property facing Route 102. Hope Gardens are a national movement, launched by the Yellow Tulip Project, bringing communities together to collectively smash the stigma associated with mental illness. After a long winter, yellow tulips remind us of perseverance and the renewal of spring. We hope that someday addiction and mental illness will be as normal to talk about as any physical illness and are fiercely dedicated to making this goal a reality.
We have all been impacted by mental illness and substance use. Let’s turn these experiences into a community of care. Together, we can save lives. Your business support helps Acadia Family Center provide safe, nurturing spaces to anyone who walks through our doors, rebuild lives, and counter the growing addiction crisis in Maine.
As a business supporter, your name will appear on our website, signage on our property within the Garden, and in all our marketing materials. You will receive a “smash the stigma with AFC” die cut sticker for your door, with the tulip emblem. Bulbs will be planted by volunteers during Mental Illness Awareness Week in October. Can you imagine the feeling of hope in the community, as a sea of tulips takes over not only our own lawn, but our neighborhoods as well?
We are seeking business support at the $50, $100, $250 or $500 levels. Any amount helps and is greatly appreciated.
If you have questions about our business initiative or the Hope Garden, please email sjmuscat@acadiafamilycenter.org.
Thank you for joining this important national movement, and locally helping us save the lives of our neighbors. Together, we can smash the stigma and send a vibrant yellow message to all that support and hope are at hand.
One Of A Kind
Outsiders see the Acadia region as a beautiful vacation destination. But in truth, many of our fellow residents face serious mental, emotional, and substance abuse issues, and are in desperate need of a listening ear and a helping hand. We provide evidence-based approaches for assisting them in recovery and renewal. We offer a vast array of counseling services for those in our region who are challenged by relationship struggles, substance abuse, depression, mental illness and more. Our staff has extensive experience in providing high-quality professional and confidential treatment in a way that addresses each individual’s specific needs.
As the oldest and largest non-profit mental health, and substance use, clinic on Mt. Desert Island, we are honored to help propel the development and well-being of our region. Because we live in such a small community, teamwork plays a large role in our patients’ recovery process. We provide unique support, tailored to each individual’s unique needs. We have witnessed countless inspiring stories over the years that demonstrate the resiliency and overall strength of our community. Recovery and renewal are indeed within reach.
We are always eager to forge supportive relationships and collaborative programs with schools, agencies, or other healthcare facilities that share our belief in the pressing need for behavioral therapeutic services. We realize, however, that strategic financial planning plays a huge role in an organization’s overall ability to grow and flourish within a community. For insights into our short and long term plans, if you would like to discuss partnership opportunities in greater detail, or for specific individual credentials and background information, we ask that you please contact our office.
We have a variety of donor options regarding funding levels, matching opportunities, and frequency of donations. To learn more about where our organization’s financial support comes from and the systematic scrutiny to which we voluntarily subject our finances, please contact Nikolai Fox, Advancement Coordinator, at (207) 244-4012 or nfox@acadiafamilycenter.org.
501(c)(3)
As a 501(c)3 non-profit, we depend heavily on the support of gracious donors and foundations. We gladly accept our obligation to financial transparency and are committed to open and honest relationships with all of our donors and financial partners. While results are often long-term and seemingly intangible, we recognize that metrics are important in measuring our overall effectiveness in serving our community. For that reason, we capture and report metrics across a spectrum of criteria, including clients served, length and age of waiting list, number of workshops conducted, etc., as well as feedback received from our clients and our community. While we never lose track of the importance of the human element, it is our desire and responsibility to measure, to the degree possible, the impact we are having.