Kennebec Behavioral Health offers a wide range of community housing options for persons with mental illness. Our Independent Housing Program offers Independent Housing units, which provide income-eligible consumers with housing and access to Kennebec Behavioral Health programs and services and other community services. The Independent Housing Program also manages two rental subsidy programs for eligible individuals.   The subsidy programs pay a monthly rent subsidy to local landlords for eligible consumers helping to reduce their housing costs.

Kennebec Behavioral Health also offers Transitional Housing for homeless individuals who need additional skills and supports to live independently in the community.  This housing option helps people who need to improve skills and who may need additional supports to access resources and eventually obtain and remain in permanent housing. 

Kennebec Behavioral Health owns and operates Residential Supported Housing Programs in Augusta and Skowhegan.  These are apartment buildings with units reserved for people with mental illness who need intensive supports to maintain community tenure. These are independent apartments where tenants can receive rental subsidy and necessary skills development and supports for successful community living.

All housing options offer safe, decent, affordable housing and either on-site services or community support services necessary for people with severe mental illness to live as independently as possible.   All services are delivered according to the client’s assessed needs, wants and preferences.

About our expanded services

Kennebec Behavioral Health’s Supported Housing Program has reorganized and restructured to better meet client and community need. This restructuring has allowed KBH to expand 24/7 Residential Supported Housing services in both Augusta and Skowhegan over the last six months for some of the region’s most challenging clients. The restructuring efforts leave the program well-positioned to continue to expand these critical services. The changes also ready us to provide alternative services and supports in new and innovative ways, especially for those individuals who need more supports in the community to be successful than just Community Integration Services. These expanded services focus on offering medication assistance, targeted skills development and 24/7 access to staff support if needed.

Our initial restructuring efforts included the addition of a full-time RN to the program to better manage the increasing medical needs of our existing and newest referrals. With the ever-increasing medical needs of our client population and the complexity and number of medications that our staff must administer to clients, this addition helps us keep on top of critical client needs.

We also added a clinical behavioralist position to our team to help support staff as the clinical acuity of our client population continues to increase. This makes possible the comprehensive clinical assessments of all new referrals and existing clients. Kennebec Behavioral Health is seen as a leader in developing services and programs to meet the needs of particularly challenging individuals. We stand ready to grow and develop these services wherever they are needed.

This realignment has allowed us to offer more residential services and develop a new and much needed alternative to address a service gap in our community.