City: Portland, ME

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (207) 773-9931

Address: 66 Pearl Street

Description: Crossroads for Women is an addiction-recovery center that focuses on women. It offers outpatient treatment services for drug and alcohol addiction and related mental-health issues, and also offers short-term and long-term residential treatment and transitional housing for women. Crossroads’ Children and Mothers Program, or CAMP, is the only program in the state that allows children to live with their mother while she goes through rehabilitation in Crossroads’ halfway house or residential treatment program. Crossroads offers support services for anorexia/bulimia, cocaine addiction, heroin addiction, parenting, and drug relapse. The house also runs a special program for alcohol dependency. Group and family therapy forms the core of the treatment. Self-pay and some public assistance payments are accepted.