Milestone Recovery

Milestone Recovery Providing help and hope for those facing homelessness and substance use since 1967. ☀️ 🌈

12/17/2025

🎁 This holiday season, you can help write the next recovery story.

Brandon first came to Milestone needing help. Today, he is part of our team, walking alongside others on their own path to recovery. Recovery is possible.

Your year end gift supports the potential of people like Brandon with safe detox, shelter, outreach, and ongoing care.

💙 Please make a holiday gift today: www.milestone-recovery.org

This is a long post, but it is the kind of long that only happens when a community shows up in a big way. Our hearts are...
12/16/2025

This is a long post, but it is the kind of long that only happens when a community shows up in a big way. Our hearts are full. Thank you. 🎄❤️🙏

This week, our community showed up in a way that will be felt by every person who walks through our doors.

A huge thank you to our wonderful Milestone Board Members, who came together to help make Christmas dinner possible for our shelter guests, along with My Fathers Hands ( .Waig ). Because of you, we will be serving a warm, hearty meal with ham, roast beef, potatoes, pies, and all the comfort-food fixings that say: you matter, you belong, you are welcome here.

And our online appeal for hand warmers. You all absolutely blew us away. We are sharing a photo of the Amazon boxes because it captures it perfectly. When the cold hits Southern Maine, you made sure our outreach team and our unhoused neighbors have a little more warmth and a little more protection. 📦🧤❄️

We are also deeply grateful to No Bowl Empty Pet Pantry for care packages for our unhoused neighbors’ furry companions, and to Courtney Bass, for an incredible outpouring of generosity: 80 large stockings for unhoused neighbors, 20 gift packages for people newly housed through our housing programs, plus gifts for 50 emergency shelter guests. 🧦🎁🐾

This is what community looks like. This is what compassion looks like. It is a lot to be thankful for, and it is a reminder that none of this happens without you.

From all of us at Milestone Recovery, thank you for helping make the holidays feel a little warmer, a little brighter, and a lot more humane. ❤️🎄

12/11/2025

💨😰 “Walking through the snow so others can find a way out.”

It is bitterly cold and windy in southern Maine today, but our HOME Team is still out in the woods and streets looking for people who are sleeping outside. They check on folks, offer rides to shelter and detox, bring basic supplies, and remind people that they have not been forgotten.

This is what real outreach looks like. It is slow, patient, and often unseen. It is also the first step on a path that can lead to safety, recovery, and a home of one’s own.

If you are able, please consider a year end gift to keep the HOME Team on the street and Milestone’s shelter, detox, and housing programs strong through the coldest months of the year. Your support helps someone find a way out of the snow and into safety.

www.milestone-recovery.org/donate

12/10/2025

🎄 This holiday season, will you make room in your heart for Milestone?

Our Medical Director, Dr. Rachel Solotaroff, is here with a holiday message and a reminder that for many of our neighbors, “home for the holidays” means shelter, detox, or a cot at Milestone.

Your year end gift helps provide warm beds, compassionate medical care, and a real chance at recovery.

💙 Give a holiday gift today: www.milestone-recovery.org

🚨URGENT: This cold is life-threatening for people sleeping outside.Our outreach team is on the streets in southern Maine...
12/09/2025

🚨URGENT: This cold is life-threatening for people sleeping outside.

Our outreach team is on the streets in southern Maine today with very few hand and foot warmers left to give out.

If you’re able, please send warmers (and other supplies if you can) directly from our Amazon list so we can get them into people’s hands immediately: https://a.co/hSniL9Q

12/07/2025

Happy Holidays from Milestone Recovery

🎁✨ Community spotlight: Brass & Briar Tattoo ✨🎁All month long, our friends at Tattoo Studio are turning art into impac...
12/06/2025

🎁✨ Community spotlight: Brass & Briar Tattoo ✨🎁

All month long, our friends at Tattoo Studio are turning art into impact. For the entire month of December, they are donating 10% of all gift card sales to support Milestone Recovery. 💙

Located just down the street at 85 India Street, Brass & Briar is part of the caring community that helps make sure our neighbors have access to shelter, detox, and a real chance at recovery when they need it most.

If you are thinking about a tattoo or looking for a unique gift, consider a Brass & Briar gift card this December. You will be supporting a local business and helping Milestone be there for people with nowhere else to turn.

We are so grateful for this incredible community partnership. Thank you, Brass & Briar, for standing with us and with the people we serve. 🙏💛

👉 Learn more about Brass and Briar: www.brassandbriar.com

💙 What a year.If you are feeling the weight of rising prices, housing instability, and uncertainty, you are not alone. A...
12/05/2025

💙 What a year.

If you are feeling the weight of rising prices, housing instability, and uncertainty, you are not alone. At Milestone Recovery, we see that struggle every day.

Yet even in a year like this, compassion has never wavered.

🏠 In our shelter, people who have been outside for days finally get warm and safe.
🛏️ In detox and residential treatment, people take their first brave steps toward recovery.
🔑 In our housing programs, hope takes root as people hang pictures on the walls of a home after years without one.

Your generosity keeps our doors open, our teams in the field, and hope alive for thousands of Mainers who rely on Milestone when there is nowhere else to turn. Thank you for standing with us, especially this year. 💛

❄️ Give today to help make sure no one is left outside this winter:
👉 www.milestone-recovery.org/donate

12/04/2025

Be the steady place in someone’s storm. 🌊💙

Milestone Recovery is hiring a full time Substance Use Counselor at our Old Orchard Beach Extended Care Facility. This role is all about calm, steady support for adults in long term recovery in a small, home-like setting where people can rebuild their lives with dignity.

You will sit with people in some of their hardest moments, offer skilled counseling, and be part of a close, mission driven team that truly has each other’s backs.

Role details:

Full time Substance Use Counselor
Old Orchard Beach Extended Care Facility
Active LADC or CADC required

We offer:
4 weeks PTO
8 paid holidays
$5,000 sign on incentive

If you are ready to use your counseling skills where they matter most, we would love to hear from you.

👉 Learn more and apply at www.milestone-recovery.org/careers

To our donors, partners, and friends who make our mission possible all year long: thank you. Your generosity fills plate...
11/27/2025

To our donors, partners, and friends who make our mission possible all year long: thank you. Your generosity fills plates, and it also fills hearts. Happy Thanksgiving. 🦃✨

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