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The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter does not discrimination based on race, color, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, disability, or mental health diagnosis.
How Can the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter Help you?
Emergency Housing: For a bed, please call the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter at (207) 947-0092 to complete an intake with our staff. Beds are not reserved over the phone, and we act on a first come first served basis. We can only accept people 18 years of age or older. Guests at BAHS must be clean and sober from drugs, medical marijuana, and alcohol for at least 24 hours. BAHS has 38 beds year-round, and in the winter, we will open “overflow” beds. Each length of stay is different. Individuals are dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Our Diversion Program: In special cases, our Diversion Coordinator works with a person experiencing homelessness or in immediate danger of becoming homeless to find a solution that will allow them to stay in their home, become rapidly re-housed, or relocate to a place where they have housing options to avoid becoming homeless or avoid having to enter an emergency shelter. Call (207) 947-0092 and ask for the Diversion Coordinator.
Day Program: Our doors are open to any sober adults to come into our day room every day from 8 am to 4 pm. Guests are welcome to use our phone, bathroom, get information about other resources in the Bangor Area, ask for any clothing or personal items they need, get warm or cool off, and meet with different organizations that work with the shelter.
Free Lunch Every Day: Please arrive at 11:45 AM. Adults who are not living at our shelter are welcome to come eat a hot lunch at noon every day.
Food Pantry: Open every Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm to 4pm. Individuals are allowed access to our pantry once a month.
Cedar Street Apartments: Are efficiency apartments in the top floor of our building. We like to use them for more vulnerable guests who experience barriers in getting housing. Whether it be mental health or past criminal history.
Partnership with Fresh Start Sober Living: In 2023, we partnered with Fresh Start Sober Living to bring an additional recovery house to the community. We purchased a home in Bangor and lease it to Fresh Start. It houses 10 to 12 men who were previously experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness to provide them a safe, stable environment to call home and maintain their sobriety.
Our Mission: The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter is a dry shelter whose mission is to support and strengthen the community by providing emergency shelter and supportive services to people who are homeless or at risk and to advocate for collaborative, locally driven solutions to end homelessness.
Our Vision: To have achieved our goal where all guests at the Shelter are transitioned into suitable, stable, housing in 30 days or less.