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Welcome to The Maine Way!  The Maine Way is a grass roots organization of community leaders, social service providers and concerned citizens established in 1998 to provide affordable housing and resources to help homeless people transition from homelessness to independence.  Responding to the affordable housing crisis that has gripped Southern Maine, we recently purchased and renovated a beautiful Victorian building in Biddeford.  Our new home has seven individual bedrooms and three shared baths as well as a common kitchen, living room, laundry, and resource room.  In addition, we have an apartment for our live-in house manager.
 
Each resident may work with a case manager to implement a plan to achieve self-sufficiency.  Each resident will be provided assistance to help link them to supportive services such as job training, financial literacy and counseling.  Each resident must be capable of living independently in a group setting and not have a history of violence or any felony convictions.  Residents may stay for up to eighteen months, but we anticipate that most residents will be ready to move on to independence much sooner.
 
Our goal for all our residents is to learn the life skills necessary to live a full and productive life.  At The Maine Way, we give homeless people the opportunity for a new beginning.