Program

Woodfords’ Behavioral Health Homes Program is designed to provide support to children and youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities and/or mental health diagnoses and their families. Coordinators link children and their parents to resources and services in their own communities. Services can range from informational to intensive, defined by the amount of support and intervention a parent and/or child requests. Coordinators provide a wide range of supports and resources including providing information regarding the child's diagnosis, connecting the child and their family with a wide range of resources and services, and more based on the goals of the child and family.
Woodfords Behavioral Health Homes Program also specializes in helping families navigate the special education process, IEPs, and major school transitions such as the transition into kindergarten, from elementary to middle school, middle school to high school, and high school to adulthood and adult services.

Service Area

The Behavioral Health Homes Program provides services in many parts of the following counties: Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and York. If you are interested in accessing services, please contact us to see if we have providers currently serving your community.

Eligibility & Referrals

Services are accessible to any child age birth to 20 years with a diagnosis of an intellectual or developmental disability or mental health diagnosis. All children (birth to 20) must be eligible for MaineCare services or MaineCare Katie Beckett.

Additional Information & Forms

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Program Referral Form

Description

Woodfords' Pathways to Transition Parent & Caregiver Support Group is a quarterly community building group that focuses on the common challenges experienced by parents and caregivers related to the transition to and navigation of early adulthood for older youth with disabilities. This group offers support to a community of caregivers so that they are able to discuss shared experiences, solve problems, and learn about services and transition related resources.

The Pathways to Transition Parent & Caregiver Support Group is hosted by a Senior Behavioral Health Homes Coordinator who specializes in Transition. Each meeting includes a short presentation about a specific transition topic and gives time for parents and caregivers to have discussions and make con

Location

Pathways to Transition Parent & Caregiver Support Group meetings are hosted virtually via Zoom on the third Tuesday of the month in February, May, August, and November.

Eligibility & Referrals

No preregistration is required. The Pathways to Transition Parent & Caregiver Support Group is open to interested parents and caregivers of older youth with disabilities. Please contact Whitney Brown, Senior BHH Care Coordinator for Transition at wbrown@woodfords.org to receive the link to the next meeting.

Additional Information & Forms

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Program

Woodfords’ Rehabilitative & Community Support (RCS) Program provides one-on-one support to children with intellectual and developmental disabilities so that they may become active participants in both family and community life. A Behavioral Health Professional (BHP) works with the child in their home and/or community on specific goals to increase their skills in behavior management, communication, independent living, self-care, self-help and socialization. The RCS Program also offers specialized services for children in need of more intensive treatment. In these cases, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) develops the child’s treatment plan and it goals and objectives are based on the evidence-based principles and practices of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA).

Service Area

The RCS Program serves the Central Maine area including Androscoggin, Oxford, Franklin, Kennebec, Sagadahoc, Knox, Lincoln, Waldo, and Somerset Counties.

Eligibility & Referrals

Children ages birth to 21 who have MaineCare or MaineCare Katie Beckett coverage and a behavioral health diagnosis and a current functional assessment that documents a functional impairment. Referrals for this service can be made by case managers. Self-referrals are also accepted. Final confirmation of eligibility is made by KEPRO Healthcare.

Additional Information & Forms

Program Flyer
Southern Maine 2024 RUBI-RCS Survey

Program

Sibshops are a celebration of the many contributions made by brothers and sisters. Sibshops offer brothers and sisters of children with disabilities the opportunity to meet other siblings of people with special needs, share common joys and concerns, and learn about the implications of their siblings’ disability-all in a lively, recreational environment.  Sibshops are not therapy, group or otherwise, although their effect may be therapeutic for some children. Sibshops acknowledge that most brothers and sisters of people with disabilities, like their parents, are doing well, despite the challenges of an illness or disability. Sibshops are a lively mixture of new games, discussion and activities. Participants should dress comfortably and be ready for action!

Location & Eligibility

Sibshops Sibling Support Workshops occur the first Friday of each month from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Each session is held at the Woodfords Training Center (red & gray building) located at 15 Saunders Way, Westbrook, ME 04092. Sibshops are open to any brother or sister of a sibling with special needs ages 7-13.

Additional Information & Forms

Program Flyer