Welcome

When Youth Alternatives and Ingraham merged on September 17, 2007, we became one of Maine’s most comprehensive non-profits. Together as YAI we deliver a full spectrum of social services and mental health care to individuals that begins prenatally and continues throughout the life span. As a united organization, we can respond even more effectively and help produce healthier children and adults, happier families and stronger communities.

Within our Children & Family Services arena, our residences and foster parents provide safe havens and create homes for children and youth unwilling or unable to stay in their own. Community supports work with kids and families in their homes, schools, on the streets, in community centers and in the juvenile justice system.

For the adults we serve, our residential support and crisis services take on many of the most pressing problems in the community — suicide, crisis, homelessness, mental illness and substance abuse.

 YAI's Special Initiatives champion the rights of Maine’s children, adults and families, by providing parenting education; advocating for effective public policy; and mobilizing state, public and private agencies as well as lay persons to work together to combat social problems in local communities.

Ours is the only social service agency available to adults and children in Cumberland County 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. What’s more, we are also a critical gateway to community services and have been helping to improve the lives of thousands of individuals each year.

This year alone, we will proudly serve more than 10,000 children, adults and families in need.

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).