about us
our mission
Youth Alternatives Ingraham partners with communities and individuals to deliver a full spectrum of social services and mental health care that begins prenatally and continues throughout the lifespan. Our programs advance healthier lives, happier families, and stronger communities.
who we are
Youth Alternatives Ingraham serves children, youth, adults, and seniors; individuals, families, and communities throughout Maine. We provide crisis services, counseling, psychiatric services, medication management, case management, advocacy, and parent and family education.
We work in people’s homes and in neighborhoods throughout our community as well as in our clinic. We also provide services via a 24-7 crisis phone line. And we provide an information & referral service through 2-1-1 Maine.
All of our programs aim to maximize the potential for people to be positive, engaged members of their families, communities and society.
Core Services
· Case Management: We provide children and youth with a mental health diagnosis as well as their families support and help them to make connections to community based services. We help youth who are or at risk of homelessness stay safe and return home as soon as possible. We help youth in the juvenile corrections system by keeping them from reoffending. We help adults at risk of homelessness with serious mental illness to remain stable and integrated into the community.
· Clinical Services: At our outpatient clinic, we provide psychiatric evaluation. We also provide people with serious mental illness counseling and medication management services.
· Residential Treatment Programming: We provide supportive homes for adults with a serious mental illness. This includes permanent group care for an aging population of adults with chronic and persistent mental illness. We provide group homes and treatment to youth and adults with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders. We provide homes for children and youth in state custody, involved in the juvenile justice system, or in family crisis situations. We provide therapeutic foster care for youth in state custody and evidenced based Multi-dimensional Treatment Foster care for youth in the juvenile justice system.
· Crisis Prevention and Intervention: We provide a comprehensive 24-hour mental health crisis stabilization system offering information and referral, as well as phone and mobile crisis intervention. At our Broadway Crossings facility, we provide a short-term therapeutic residential alternative to hospitalization for adults experiencing a mental health crisis.
· Parent and Family Education: We help at-risk families stay together or reunify and their children to return home safely. We help first time parents learn effective, healthy, and nurturing parenting skills. We provide an array of parenting classes focused on effective parenting of both children and teens. We provide housing and parenting education to homeless, pregnant or parenting teens and young adults.
· Information and Referral: We provide 2-1-1 Maine, a statewide phone and internet based health and human services information and referral system. This easy-to-remember number helps people in accessing health and human services in their community.
· Advocacy and Prevention: Through our Children’s Advocacy Council, we advocate for child-friendly, family-focused policies and raise the awareness of and engage the community around child and family issues. Through our association with Community Partnerships for Protecting Children, we help organize neighborhoods to build communities which safe-guard children. Through our Linkage Project, we promote awareness of the link between animal cruelty and human violence. We provide family and community mediation services to help resolve conflicts.
Youth Alternatives Ingraham, does not discriminate in providing services or the opportunity to volunteer services, or in the provision of employment opportunities on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender, age, disability and/or other characteristics prohibited by state or federal law (except where such constitutes a bona fide qualification permitted by law).
