Causes: Mental Health, Residential Mental Health Treatment
Mission: Our mission is to promote independence and freedom of choice for people we serve.
Results: We are innovative and operate with outcome measures in all areas of our work. This allows us to document success in our supports to people. In addition it promotes better use of our funding and utilization of our time. One example of this system is in our day/community support programs. We determined that people wanted to experience better health and wanted to be in their community more often. To increase their value as contributing members of their community and to enhance their chances of full integration we embarked on two goals: physical fitness and volunteerism. People now (2009) volunteer over 50% of their time and spend 25% of their time on fitness. This happens in a variety of ways from gym membership to trail hiking. As innovators we began a couple of projects this year to address our needs for employment and the area need for a community kitchen. In 2010 we will enter our third year of our famer’s food collaborative, an innovative food purchasing and delivery business. The Oxford Hills Food Collaborative supports local food producers and allows for over 12 local farms and food producers to sell their products through our marketing and delivery services. The collaborative also offers employment and volunteer opportunities to people we support in fully integrated settings within our community. We began a program called the Community Table, Helping Hands - Helping Others. This is a program to feed those in need. Currently we provide meals out of a local church however we are in the midst of a building project at our Cottage Street address; we are building a fully licensed commercial kitchen. This addition will not only support our Community Table project but will meet an identified community need for a certified kitchen to support farmers and food producers. The rental of this multi-purpose licensed commercial kitchen will help to support our projects. We support over 150 people. It is our hope that these highlights of the past year will encourage you to visit our web site to view our annual results of surveys and outcomes.
Geographic areas served: Western/Central Maine
Mission: Our mission is to promote independence and freedom of choice for people we serve.
Results: We are innovative and operate with outcome measures in all areas of our work. This allows us to document success in our supports to people. In addition it promotes better use of our funding and utilization of our time. One example of this system is in our day/community support programs. We determined that people wanted to experience better health and wanted to be in their community more often. To increase their value as contributing members of their community and to enhance their chances of full integration we embarked on two goals: physical fitness and volunteerism. People now (2009) volunteer over 50% of their time and spend 25% of their time on fitness. This happens in a variety of ways from gym membership to trail hiking. As innovators we began a couple of projects this year to address our needs for employment and the area need for a community kitchen. In 2010 we will enter our third year of our famer’s food collaborative, an innovative food purchasing and delivery business. The Oxford Hills Food Collaborative supports local food producers and allows for over 12 local farms and food producers to sell their products through our marketing and delivery services. The collaborative also offers employment and volunteer opportunities to people we support in fully integrated settings within our community. We began a program called the Community Table, Helping Hands - Helping Others. This is a program to feed those in need. Currently we provide meals out of a local church however we are in the midst of a building project at our Cottage Street address; we are building a fully licensed commercial kitchen. This addition will not only support our Community Table project but will meet an identified community need for a certified kitchen to support farmers and food producers. The rental of this multi-purpose licensed commercial kitchen will help to support our projects. We support over 150 people. It is our hope that these highlights of the past year will encourage you to visit our web site to view our annual results of surveys and outcomes.
Geographic areas served: Western/Central Maine
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