Community Concepts' mission is to: "Collaborate, coordinate and to focus resources to help people in need build opportunities for a better tomorrow."

We are the state-designated community action agency for Oxford and Androscoggin Counties in Maine.  Our all-volunteer Board of Directors is comprised of equal parts low income representatives, publicly-elected officials, and private sector members.

Community Concepts has a strong presence in western and central Maine, maintaining an administrative office on Market Square in South Paris; 2 additional full-services on 79 Main Street, Auburn and 100 York Street, Rumford; a 2nd office site in South Paris and Rumford, and licensed Children' s Centers in the towns of Rumford, South Paris, Norway, Oxford, Fryeburg, Porter, and Bethel.

Our agency offers a broad array of traditional and innovative services to meet our mission. We utilize the energies of over 240 talented staff and hundreds of volunteers to provide an annual $19 million dollars in services. Community Concepts' major programs are:

• Family Support community-based child protective services.
• Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention - parenting classes, parentingthoughts.org website, mandated reporter training, and radio parenting tips
• Head Start and Early Head Start teaching children and families in classrooms, home-based and child-care center models
• Supported Journey into Recovery substance abuse treatment program (specializing in outpatient services to women, adolescents, adult criminal offenders)
• Celebrating Fatherhood
• RIDES/Medicaid Transportation Program
• Low Income Energy Assistance Program
• Utility Assistance
• Healthy Beginnings home visitation services
• Parents as Teachers home visitation services
• Subsidized Child Care
• Finders/Seekers, Child Care Resource & Development Center
• USDA Child Nutrition Program
• First Time Homeownership Program
• Housing Rehabilitation and Replacement
• Weatherization and Heating Improvement
• Emergency Shelter for Homeless Families
• Transitional Housing for Homeless Families
• Subsidized Rental Housing
• Affordable Housing Development
• Western Maine Microenterprise Center

Community Concepts' accounting practices meet all federal, state and local fiscal requirements including federal Circular' s A-122, A-133 and A-110. Our annual third party audits consistently show no questioned costs. Our finance department maintains a computerized accounting system to manage over 55 separate program contracts.

Currently Community Concepts is building its own website, and then we will link this page to it and its programs.