Wellspring, Inc.

About Wellspring, Inc.

Wellspring, Inc. is a Bangor, Maine provider whose men's house appears in the state recovery residence directory for Penobscot County. Today the organization is better described as a treatment provider: it runs residential programs, a detox center and outpatient counseling across several sites in the Bangor area.

What Wellspring Runs

Beyond the men's residential program listed in this directory, Wellspring operates the New Horizons detox center, outpatient counseling, a women's residential program, and Infinity House for women with children. That last one is comparatively rare in Maine residential capacity that does not force a mother to choose between treatment and her children.

A Bangor-Area Organization

Wellspring's sites are clustered in and around Bangor, with further addresses on State Street and Essex Street in the city and a detox facility on Main Road in Hampden. Its Cumberland Street address doubles as the organization's corporate mailing address, so the men's program and the head office sit together.

Recovery Housing and Treatment in Penobscot County

Wellspring occupies the overlap between recovery housing and licensed treatment. Its men's residence was listed in Maine's recovery residence directory as a certified residence, and its current program at the same address is licensed residential treatment. For anyone comparing options in Penobscot County, that distinction is the one to get straight before making an inquiry, and it is covered on the program's own listing.

A Northern Maine Recovery Housing and Treatment Provider Since 1965

Wellspring began in 1965 as The Bangor Half-Way House and was restructured as a private nonprofit corporation in 1985. Its stated mission is to provide substance use services for homeless and low-income individuals in northern Maine, and that wording explains who the organization is built around: people arriving without stable income, without an address and often without family support anywhere nearby. It also delivers services inside several Maine correctional facilities, so a referral can begin before someone is released and land in one of its programs on the day they are.

Capacity Across Wellspring's Recovery Housing and Treatment Programs

The organization publishes the size of each program, and the numbers are small. The long-term men's and women's residential programs each hold fifteen people, and Infinity House, which takes women with children, holds ten. New Horizons is a medically supervised detox, and outpatient services run alongside all of it. Fifteen places in a program serving the whole of northern and eastern Maine is why availability is the first thing to ask about, and why referring workers in Penobscot, Piscataquis and Aroostook counties tend to open the conversation weeks before a bed is actually needed.