Mission
Crossroads provides gender-responsive addiction and behavioral health treatment services in a safe and respectful environment so individuals and families can lead healthy lives.
History
Crossroads for Women opened its doors in October of 1974. At the time, the nonprofit agency in Windham was known as a safe place for women to “dry out.” Alcoholism was treated, as drug problems were not widely addressed (or prevalent) at the time.
Over the years, the agency has identified the specific needs of women in the state of Maine and developed programs and services that address those needs. The Children And Mothers Program (CAMP) was started in 1995 and remains the only program in Maine that provides on-site living arrangements and childcare services to minor children of mothers in residential treatment for drug or alcohol addiction.
Crossroads for Women opened its first outpatient office in Portland in 1997, offering counseling and an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). Known later as Greater Portland Counseling Center, the office was expanded and moved to Scarborough in November of 2011. Cumberland Commons, an 8 unit, independent, transitional living apartment complex opened in 2000. The long-term Halfway House program, known as Crossroads Back Cove, opened in 2001. Kennebunk Counseling Center was introduced in March of 2009 and expanded in 2011 to accommodate services for men for the first time.
Simply known as Crossroads now, the agency offers substance abuse and mental health counseling, as well as medication management, at the outpatient level, for both men and women.
Today, we continue to house our short-term Residential Rehab and CAMP programs in the same beautiful farmhouse in Windham. Our treatment approach has grown leaps and bounds since 1974, incorporating both mental health and substance abuse treatment (for alcohol and drugs) and addressing the issues that women, and now men, uniquely face using a relational model.