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May 4, 2011 is the second annual World Give Day. The website defines the day as “one day a year to give to the causes you care about most.” Started by the founder of GiveForward, it’s a day where you are encouraged to give hugs, money, clothes, love…whatever inspires you. The point is to give.…
DetailsEver wonder what it’s like to be in a therapy session with a counselor? If you haven’t experienced an outpatient counseling session, you might wonder what goes on behind those closed doors. We decided to ask a few of Crossroads for Women’s outpatient therapists about the basic goals of a counseling session. While it depends…
DetailsCrossroads for Women is offering a free one-hour counseling session during the month of May to new clients at its three counseling centers in Portland, Windham and Kennebunk, Maine. To book an appointment, call 207.773.9931 (Portland), 207.467.3369 (Kennebunk), or 207.894.5733 (Windham). “Many people wonder what it would be like to sit and talk about whatever…
DetailsAs we discussed in our last post, parents play a major role in their children’s choices about alcohol. According to three years of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 34% of youth aged 12-14 who drank alcohol in the past month got the alcohol they drank for free from a person…
DetailsWhere would 709,000 American youth between ages 12 and 14 get alcohol? According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, almost all (93.4%) of them got it for free the last time they drank. What’s more, over 44.8% of 12 to 14 year olds who reported drinking in the past month say they…
DetailsThe following post was written by a current Crossroads for Women halfway house client, Amanda. Monday, March 21, 2001, our program director had an outing planned for the clients. We were all very excited. So, we all piled in the van, me and 5 other women, with absolutely no idea of where we were going.…
DetailsStarted in 1993 by Share Our Strength, a national organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger in America, Cooking Matters provides low-income people at risk of hunger with hands-on cooking and nutrition classes led by volunteer professional chefs and nutritionists. According to Kristen Miale, the program director for Cooking Matters for Maine, the Cooking Matters program…
DetailsWe don’t normally send emails like this, but we need your help. On Friday, Crossroads for Women received the recommendations that the Office of Substance Abuse (OSA), a division of DHHS, is forced to make in an attempt to keep treatment available in our state. These recommendations essentially dismantle Maine’s substance abuse treatment system as…
DetailsFollowing is an excerpt from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday today. This book was the last written by the famed author in 1990. Though a children’s author, Dr. Seuss certainly inspires in this book about life and its challenges. Reading the first few pages, it sounds a lot like…
DetailsStephanie Covington, Ph.D., author of Hazelden Publishing books, A Woman’s Way Through The Twelve Steps, Women and Addiction: A Gender-Responsive Approach and Beyond Trauma, is currently being featured in the new OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network docu-series, “Breaking Down the Bars,” which premiered on Tuesday, February 15. The original seven-episode series follows the journey women prisoners…
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