Servicing residents in Machais, Maine, Catholic Charities provides adult and child mental health services at its St. Michael's Center. With its Community Support and Children's Case management programs, residents have the opportunity to receive assistance through treatment and evaluation, mentoring and service planning, designed to help program participants increase their access to financial and family support, as well. The Christopher Home, located along Pleasant Street in Caribou, is Catholic Charities' only 24-hour a day residential house for emotionally impaired boys. Residents of the house must complete a three to nine month program to help integrate them back into the community.
The Catholic Charities Home Supplies and Food Bank, located in Caribou, Maine, along Old Van Buren Road, helps people in Machias, Maine, obtain used furniture and household items. In partnership with Aroostook county businesses and churches, and the Good Shepherd Food Bank, the food bank offers items such as dry cereal, frozen meat and fresh vegetables, cakes, canned fruit and vegetables, cheese and milk. Near the Cary Medical Center, the Home Supplies and Food Bank helps thousands of people each year.
Catholic Charities provides childcare, child-care assistance and tuition supplement services at its three Maine locations: Portland, Biddeford and Auburn. The St. Elizabeth, St. Louis and St. Joseph facilities are all accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Each center also affords parents developmental screening and assessment programs for children who need early-learning intervention.
Jessie Albert Dental and Orthodontic Center, located in Bath, Maine, along Congress Avenue, helps children and adults obtain much-needed dental-care services such as checkups, cleaning, cavity treatments, root canals and even tooth extraction. The facility provides referral services for people in Machias, Maine, as well as Bucksport, Bangor, Ellsworth and many other surrounding cities, villages and towns.