Safe Harbor Has Openings

Safe Harbor Recovery Home For Women and Children, located in Machias, Maine, has openings available.

Safe Harbor is a place for women to live and grow with their children while seeking recovery from substance use disorder. A safe, supportive, and affordable living environment for women in recovery. We support women with or without children, those with shared custody and those with reunification plans.

Safe Harbor offers a supportive living environment with access to recovery supports including; support in finding recovery coaches, treatment services, and other recovery focused supports. This is a non-clinical living environment therefore we do not have on site clinical or medical staff.

Safe Harbor opened in August 2020 as the first recovery residence in Downeast Maine to be certified by the Maine Association of Recovery Residences (MARR). The home operates as a non-clinical Level 2 program and supports multiple and diverse pathways to recovery, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT), but does not provide clinical treatment services.  

The project is the result of a collaborative effort between Healthy Acadia, Downeast Community Partners, Aroostook Mental Health Center, and the Community Caring Collaborative to provide a safe, supportive, affordable living environment for women in recovery. The partners are part of the Washington County Substance Use Response Collaborative, a collaborative of over 25 Washington County nonprofit partners and individuals in recovery which has convened regularly since 2016 to address the broad impacts of substance use disorder.

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For more information or questions about Safe Harbor or to make a donation please contact Katie Sell at

263-5096 or email at katie.sell@healthyacadia.org.