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Come celebrate American Idol’s Julia Gagnon on her birthday! She will be performing songs in tribute to Stevie Wonder alongside an all-star band at... Aura in downtown Portland this Saturday night. Proceeds from the concert will benefit Sweetser’s youth mental health programs. Here is a clip of her amazing singing! Grab your tickets before they sell out: www.SweetserTickets.org.

"The cost of our legislation is a drop in the bucket compared to the costs and risks of hospitalization, incarceration, residential care and ...other long-term strains on our system,” said Jayne Van Bramer, President & CEO of Sweetser.

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Advocates call on Maine lawmakers to better support mental health services

Statistics show more than one-third of high school students report feeling sad or hopeless and that rates of anxiety and depression among Maine youth...

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Happy Maine Maple Sunday Weekend! 🥞

Students at our Special Purpose K-12 School on our Saco campus get to learn and participate in all ...aspects of making maple syrup from tapping the trees, to boiling the sap, and even bottling the final product that they sell to our staff.

Happy Maine Maple Sunday Weekend! 🥞

Students at our Special Purpose K-12 School on our Saco campus get to learn and participate in all ...aspects of making maple syrup. From tapping the trees, to boiling the sap, and even bottling the final product that they sell to our staff, this is part of our experiential learning program. Check it out below 👇

Maine Morning Star: John McAnuff, chief financial officer of Sweetser, told Maine Morning Star that the statewide behavioral health organization ...hasn’t yet been impacted by delayed payments. Some had been expected by the payment cycle that begins next week, but with a payment date now in sight, Sweetser has a plan to be able to make it into late June, McAnuff said. “We have been getting continual updates from the department and we really appreciate that they’re working closely with providers like us,” he said. “I think now that there’s a little bit of finality to the process that we will be receiving a more definitive plan.”

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Gov. Mills signs budget but health care providers lament delay • Maine Morning Star

“We are very concerned that this temporary pain could produce permanent damage,” Jeffrey Austin, vice president of government affairs for Maine...

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"Now is the time to strengthen Maine’s behavioral health system for our next generation. Together we must meet this moment with leadership and... expand access to programs that work backed with the resources needed to properly staff them. The time to invest in our children’s future is now." – Sweetser’s President & CEO Jayne Van Bramer

"Now is the time to strengthen Maine’s behavioral health system for our next generation. Together we must meet this moment with leadership and... expand access to programs that work backed with the resources needed to properly staff them. The time to invest in our children’s future is now." – Sweetser’s President & CEO Jayne Van Bramer

Sweetser’s President & CEO Jayne Van Bramer joined with other partner organizations as part of the Behavioral Health Priorities Coalition to ...release the legislative package we are advocating for this session. Some of our priority legislation includes bills like An Act to Expand Child Assertive Community Treatment and An Act to Provide Grants to Schools That Contract for Behavioral and Mental Health Services.

Sweetser’s President & CEO Jayne Van Bramer joined with other partner organizations as part of the Behavioral Health Priorities Coalition to ...release the legislative package we are advocating for this session. Some of our priority legislation includes bills like An Act to Expand Child Assertive Community Treatment and An Act to Provide Grants to Schools That Contract for Behavioral and Mental Health Services.