CRISIS RESOURCES

Crisis Response Services of Southern Maine: 

Phone:  1-888-568-1112 http://www.counselingservices.org

24 hour/7 day crisis mental health and substance abuse hotline, phone support and intervention, face-to-face assessment and intervention, mobile crisis response for adults and children.  

Parent Trauma Resource Center:  http://www.tlcinstitute.org/PTRC.html

Emergency Relief:

http://www.ycmeredcross.org  American Red Cross, York County Area Chapter.  Phone:324-4071.  889 Main St. Sanford.  

Operation Blessing, Inc.  Portsmouth, NH.  603-430-8561.  Assistance to families in need of food, clothing, furniture....

Salvation Army, Old Orchard Beach, ME.  Phone:  934-4381.  Sanford, ME  phone:  324-3134.

http://www.uwycme.org  United Way of York County, Kennebunk.   Phone:  985-3359.  Family support, emergency needs.

York County Community Action Corporation

Caring Unlimited

Maine State Housing Authority

Sweetser Family Services

York County Shelters, inc.

Youth Alternatives, Inc.

Websites to assist families in talking about war, news events or crisis:

http://www.mentoring.org/explaining

http://www.cgcmaine.org/tragedy.html

National Mental Health Association:  http://www.nmha.org

http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terrorism.html

The Center for Grieving Children in Portland, 207-775-5216, http://www.cgcmain.org/

York County Chapter Red Cross:  207-324-4071,  http://www.sanfordredcross.org

http://www.ed.gov/inits/september11/adults.html

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  http://www.aacap.org/