Making Spirits Bright 2024 - Maine Behavioral Healthcare

MaineHealth Behavioral Health's Holiday Partners program supports our efforts to provide patients and clients with essential basic items they may need during the cold, and often isolating, winter months of the holiday season. However, these are also items that patients and clients can use throughout the year. Initially created to raise funds to purchase gift items for Spring Harbor Hospital’s children and adult inpatients, the program has since expanded to include needs identified across our inpatient and outpatient programs and services.

Given our desire to provide for these additional patients we serve, we’ve increased our gift drive fundraising goal to just over $20,000. To meet this increased goal, we will need to rely on the gracious generosity of our wonderfully caring community. Please make a donation today that will enable us to provide comforting gift items during the holiday season and throughout the year. This year, the Holiday Partners fundraising drive kicks off on October 18th and runs through December 31st, and features our family-friendly event Making Spirits Bright as yet another way to participate and enjoy helping our patients have a brighter season.

You Can Make A Difference!

Its a great way to signal your business considers behavioral healthcare an inmportant cause and that it's time to stop the silence around mental illness that can make it difficult for people to seek the care they need.

Stuffies for Smiles
$250 Gift

Provide holiday cheer for children spending the holidays at Spring Harbor Hospital. Your gift can cover the cost of buying 40 stuffed animals for the kids to cuddle during their stay.

Cover wih Kindness
$100 Gift could provide

A weighted blanket offers a calm-inducing amount of pressure similar to the feeling of being hugged. Your gift can purchase one weighted blanket that will help calm patients during periods of extreme stress so they are more receptive during treatment, which is important for recovery.

Giving the Basics
$75 Gift

Practicing good body hygiene helps you feel good about yourself, which is important for your mental health. This gift could fund the purchase of 10 zippered hygiene kits containing shampoo, conditioner, toothbrush, toothpaste and other care essentials, so that 10 people can take care of themselves in a way that creates confidence and pride.

Give the Gift of Warmth
$50 Gift

Maine winters can be brutal. Your gift could provide warmth to 10 patients in-need by giving each of them a set of winter hats, gloves and socks.

Go the Extra Mile
$25 Gift

Your gift could help in-need patients and their families access critical behavioral healthcare services by providing them with transportation assistance in the form of a gas card.