Homeless Shelters in Maine

Abused Women's Advocacy Project
P.O. Box 713
Auburn, ME 04212
Phone: 207-795-6744 or 800-559-2927
The Abused Women's Advocacy Project serves victims of domestic violence and their children in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin Counties.
New Beginnings, Inc.
491 Maine Street
Lewiston, ME 04240
Phone: 207-795-4070
New Beginnings provides safe short-term care for adolescents who are in unsafe circumstance or transition. Services include case management, family mediation, education, life skills education, and recreation.
Rural Community Action Ministry
81 Church Hill Road
Leeds, ME 04263
Phone: 207-524-5095
Rural Community Action Ministry serves the homeless in Buckfield, Canton, Hartford, Leeds, Litchfield, Livermore Falls, Monmouth, Sabattus, Sumner, Turner, and Wayne. It provides emergency shelter, transportation, budgeting assistance, help in finding affordable housing and other services.

Aroostook County

Battered Women's Project
421 Maine Street
Suite 2
Presque Isle, ME 04769
Phone: 207-764-2977
The Battered Women's Project provides support and safety to victims of domestic violence throughout Aroostook County.
My Choice
181 State Street
Bangor, ME 04401
Phone: 207-941-8809 or 1-800-773-9595
My Choice provides safe housing and support to homeless, pregnant and/or parenting teens and women.
Sister Mary O'Donnell Homeless Shelter
745 Central Drive
Presque Isle, ME 04769
Phone: 207-764-5114
The Sister Mary O'Donnell Homeless Shelter assists homeless individuals and/or families in need of emergency food and shelter.

Cumberland County

Family Crisis Services
P.O. Box 704
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: 207-874-1973
Hotline: 1-800-537-6066
The Family Crisis Services of Portland provides advocacy and saftey for battered women and their children. It also helps to educate the community and change the cultural values on the abuse of women.
Mainestay (A Project of Ingraham, INC.)
P.O. Box 1868
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: 207-842-6890
Mainestay assists persons in crisis, provides people in need with a safe enviroment, and acts as a catalyst for the development of new social policies in the State of Maine.
Milestone
65 India Street
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: 207-775-4790
Milestone provides the best services to empower individuals with substance abuse problems to attain stability, diginity, recovery, and an enhanced quality of life.
My Choice
306 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: 207-772-7552 or 1-800-640-7550
My Choice provides safe housing with supporting services to homeless, pregnant and/or parenting teens and women.
Oxford Street Shelter
85 Preble Street
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: 207-761-2072
Oxford Street Shelter gives quality services and programs to low income Portland residents and to encourage diginity, self-respect, and self-reliance in the transition from public assistance to independence.
Portland Family Shelter
85 Preble Street
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: 207-772-8339
The Portland Family Shelter provides low income Portland residents with quality services to encourage diginity, self-respect, and self-reliance in transitioning from public assistance to independence.
Preble Street Resource Center
P.O. Box 1459
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: 207-775-0026 or 207-874-6560
The Preble Street Resource Center is a drop-in shelter which provides services to help people with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty.
Preble Street Teen Center
P.O. Box 1459
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: 207-874-1197
The Preble Street Teen Center is a drop-in shelter that helps teens experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty.
Salvation Army Lighthouse Shelter
297 Cumberland Avenue
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: 207-774-3073
The Salvation Army Lighthouse Shelter provides a safe, warm caring place for children to sleep and refer them to other needed services.
Tedford Shelter
P.O. Box 958
Brunswick, ME 04011
Phone: 207-725-4871
The Tedford Shelter meets the short-term needs of homeless and at-risk men, women and children in the mid-coast region.
The Bridge (A Project of Ingraham, INC.)
P.O. Box 1868
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: 207-874-4034
The Bridge assists persons in crisis, provides people in need with a safe enviroment, and acts as a catalyst for the development of new social policies in the State of Maine.
YANA
P.O. Box 1147
Scarborough, ME 04070
Phone: 207-283-0069
YANA serves young, single men who are in need of transitional and emergency housing, primarily those who have a substance abuse problem.
Youth Alternatives' Reardon's Place
P.O. Box 596
Portland, ME 04112-0596
Phone: 207-874-1184
Youth Alternatives' want to advance safe, healthy, happy childhoods and positive family relationships.

Hancock County

Emmaus Center
P.O. Box 811
Ellsworth, ME 04605
Phone: 207-667-3962
The Emmaus Center provides a safe, comfortable, loving enviroment for homeless men, women, and families in need of temporary shelter.
HOME, INC. - Dorr House
P.O. Box 10
Orland, ME 04472
Phone: 207-469-7961
The Dorr House serves single men, including those with a mental illness and/or substance abuse problems, recieve the four basic human needs: shelter, food, education, and employment.
HOME, INC. - Hospitality House
P.O. Box 10
Orland, ME 04472
Phone: 207-469-7961
The Hospitality House serves families, single men and women, including those with a mental illness and/or substance abuse problems as well as domestic violence victims, recieve the four basic human needs: shelter, food, education, and employment.
HOME, INC. - St. Francis Community-Mandala Farm
P.O. Box 44
East Orland, ME 04431
Phone: 207-469-3018
The St. Francis Community serves families, single men and women, including those with a mental illness and/or substance abuse problems as well as domestic violence victims. It provides farm life with the everyday work of HOME.
HOME, INC. - St. Francis Inn
P.O. Box 223
East Orland, ME 04431
Phone: 207-469-6771
The St. Francis Inn gives a safe enviroment to homeless women and families in need of temporary shelter.
The Next Step
P.O. Box 1465
Ellsworth, ME 04605
Phone: 207-667-4606
Hotline: 1-800-315-5579
The Next Step serves the needs of people affected by domestic violence while striving to prevent and to end the cycle of domestic violence through education and social change.

Kennebec County

Bread of Life Shelter
157 Hospital Street
Augusta, ME 04330
Phone: 207-626-3479
The Bread of Life Shelter serves the Kennebec Co. Area. It assists families, victims of domestic violence, and single men and women including those with mental illness.
Family Violence Project
P.O. Box 304
Augusta, ME 04332-0304
Phone: 207-623-3760
The Family Violence Project creates a society in which domestic abuse is unacceptable by assisting and supporting victims, educating communities, and promoting change through public policy.
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter
P.O. Box 2612
Waterville, ME 04903
Phone: 207-872-8082
The Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter provides emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.

Knox County

Breakwater Teen Shelter
218 Main Street
Rockland, ME 04841
Phone: 207-596-5793
The Breakwater Teen Shelter provides a safe place for teens to sleep when they cannot stay at home and to be a starting place for homeless teens and their families to solve their problems.
Mid-Coast Hospitality House
P.O. Box 155
Rockport, ME 04856
Phone: 207-594-1422
The Mid-Coast Hospitality House offers temporary and emergency shelter to individuals and families in need and to assist in an individual's transition to permanent living quarters.
New Hope For Women
P.O. Box A
Rockland, ME 04841-0733
Phone: 207-594-2128
New Hope for Women provides services to women, their children, and all people affected by domestic and dating violence.

Oxford County

Greenleaf House (A Project of Rumford Group Home, INC.)
160 Lincoln Avenue
Rumford, ME 04276
Phone: 207-369-9230
The Greenleaf House provides shelter, food, and a link to community resources in support of homeless individuals becoming self-sufficient individuals who live independently in the community.
Strathglass Shelter (A Project of Community Concepts, INC.)
P.O. Box 278
South Paris, ME
Phone: 207-743-7716
The Strathglass Shelter provides emergency and temporary housing individuals and families and to provide support to assist guests in stabilizing their situation, with permanent housing as the ultimate goal.

Penobscot County

Acadia Recovery Community Shelter
179 Indiana Avenue
Bangor, ME 04401
Phone: 207-973-6400 or 1-800-244-2555
The Acadia Recovery Community Shelther serves Greater Bangor, Downeast, and Northern Maine. It is open to single men and women including those individuals with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems.

Bangor Area Homeless Shelter
263 Main Street
Bangor, ME 04401
Phone: 207-947-0092
The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter serves families, couples, single men and women including those individuals with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems and victims of domestic violence.
My Choice
181 State Street
Bangor, ME 04401
Phone: 207-941-8809 or 1-800-773-9595
My Choice serves pregnant or parenting teens or women by providing safe housing with supportive services to them.
Shaw House
136 Union Street
Bangor, ME 04401
Phone: 207-941-2874
The Shaw House provides youth-focused services and programs designed to prevent and alleviate problems associated with at-risk groups.
Spruce Run
P.O. Box 653
Bangor, ME 04402-0653
Business Phone: 207-945-5102
24-hour Hotline: 1-800-863-9909
Spruce Run serves people in the community who are affected by domestic violence and to work toward the elimination of personal institutional and cultural violence.
St. Michael's Center (A Project of Catholic Charities)
1066 Kenduskeag Avenue
Bangor, ME 04401
Phone: 207-941-2855
St. Michael's Center implements the social teachings of Jesus as taught by the Catholic Church.

Piscataquis County

Womancare
P.O. Box 192
Dover-Foxcroft, ME 04426
Phone: 207-564-8165
Womancare provides support and advocacy to persons who are affected by domestic abuse and to work toward the elimination of domestic abuse through education and social change.

Somerset County

Halcyon House (A Project of Youth and Family Services)
P.O. Box 502
Skowhegan, ME 04976
Phone: 207-474-8574
Halcyon House gives emergency shelter to young people and thier families who have problems relative to school, life goals and peer and family interactions.

Washington county

Next Step
P.O. Box 303
Machias, ME 04654
Phone: 207-225-4785
Hotline: 1-888-604-8692
The Next Step serves the needs of people affected by domestic violence while striving to prevent and to end the cycle of domestic violence through education and social change.

York County

Caring Unlimited
P.O. Box 590
Sanford, ME 04073
Phone: 207-490-3227
24-Hour Hotline: 1-800-239-7298
Caring Unlimited works with the community to end domestic violence in York County. It also provides support and a safe haven to women, their children, and men whose lives are affected by domestic abuse in a manner that honors their essential worth, nurtures their inherent strenghts and respects their right of self-determination.
York County Shelters, INC.
P.O. Box 820
Alfred, ME 04002-0820
Phone: 207-324-1137
York County Shelters assist homeless individuals and families in achieving the highest level of independent living possible.