Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey and Rep. Michele Meyer (D-Maine) announced a $1 million investment of opioid settlement funds on Wednesday for a social services hub in Kittery.
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The funding will go to Mainspring: The Seacoast Social Services Collective, a project led by Fair Tide, an organization aimed at ending homelessness, and Footprints, a food pantry.
Mainspring describes itself as a collective of nonprofits, with centralized data sharing, case management, and other forms of cooperation. It provides a single building where people seeking a variety of services can go all in one location.
Services include housing assistance, food, energy assistance, aging care, addiction recovery, education, and a Maine Department of Labor Career Center to assist people searching for employment.
“People struggling with substance use disorder are often simultaneously facing housing instability, food insecurity, poverty, and other barriers to care. By bringing services together in one accessible location and coordinating support across agencies, Mainspring is helping people access the resources they need to achieve long-term stability and recovery. I am proud to support this work through Maine’s opioid settlement funds,” said Frey in a press release.
Opioid settlement funds are drawn from legal settlements with opioid manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies and can only be used towards fighting drug addiction.
In a rarity for social service providers, Mainspring appears to avoid overt left-wing political statements and does not post about them on their active social media page; they did not even post anything regarding LGBTQ issues in June of last year.
Frey has previously come under fire for a lack of transparency in his use of opioid settlement funds.
Such BS .
Money given to another NGO who can turn around and donate most of it back to the Democrat party .
Thanks for NOTHING Frey .
YOU need to go find a different job . You are nobody’s hero except for Mills and Bellows .
Wonder how much will end up in someones pocket.
is there treatment without enablement