Maine Recovery Access Project

What Maine Recovery Access Project does

Maine Recovery Access Project (ME-RAP) is a grassroots, peer-led recovery community organization founded in February 2025 and headquartered at the Access Center, 47 Water St, Augusta, Maine. ME-RAP serves individuals affected by substance use disorder in Maine — primarily adults in recovery or active use, youth ages 12–18, and their families and allies — through a portfolio of programs: the Access Center (drop-in space, peer-led recovery meetings, recovery coaching, treatment referral to outpatient, MAT, detox, and rehab, showers, personal storage, mail services, and housing and employment navigation), Project Doorstep (door-to-door deep canvassing for naloxone distribution), Community Clean-Ups (including on-call syringe disposal), the Youth Caucus (peer-led naloxone training and advocacy in Kennebec, Washington, and Penobscot Counties), a Trainings & Support curriculum, statewide Listening Sessions across all 16 Maine counties, and Opioid Settlement Transparency work delivered through its sister organization Maine Recovery Action Project.

All ME-RAP services are free to participants, and the organization's revenue model is grant-funded nonprofit operations rather than fee-for-service. Funding sources include legislative appropriations (notably $2 million annually under LD 1714 for recovery community centers), opioid settlement pass-through funds (tracked via the Maine Recovery Council and MOSS Center), other foundation grants (e.g., Maine Health Access Foundation), and grassroots fundraising. The organization operates with approximately eight named full-time staff and a 123+ volunteer statewide organizing team, and reports material outcomes in its first year including 939 registered participants, 15,900+ drop-ins, 351 recovery meetings, and 5,006 naloxone boxes distributed. The technology stack is minimal and non-proprietary; the model is human-delivered, community-organized services with strong legislative advocacy embedded as a core operating function.

Name

Maine Recovery Access Project

Legal name

Maine Recovery Access Project

Website

https://www.me-rap.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Maine Recovery Access Project is a peer-led, nonprofit recovery community organization founded in 2025 in Augusta, Maine, providing free harm reduction, recovery support, naloxone distribution, youth organizing, and legislative advocacy services to individuals affected by substance use disorder across Maine's 16 counties.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recovery Community Services

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Substance Use Recovery & Harm Reduction Support Services (BPAGAEAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Peer Support, Recovery Coaching & Sober Living Services (HLAFACAN)

Keywords

• Recovery community services
• Harm reduction programs
• Peer support services
• Substance use advocacy
• Naloxone distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Augusta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding and Advocacy: ME-RAP operates as a nonprofit organization. Revenue is generated through advocacy, organizing, and grant-funded programming. Key funding sources include opioid settlement funds, legislative appropriations, and grassroots fundraising.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Maine Recovery Access Project (ME-RAP) is a grassroots recovery community organization that provides peer-led recovery support, harm reduction services, and community advocacy to individuals affected by substance use disorder in Maine. Its primary service is the Access Center, a recovery community center in Augusta offering recovery meetings, treatment referrals, naloxone distribution, showers, storage, housing/employment navigation, and drop-in services, alongside statewide programs including Project Doorstep, Youth Caucus, Community Clean-Ups, Trainings, Listening Sessions, and Legislative Advocacy.

Product overview

Maine Recovery Access Project (ME-RAP) is a grassroots recovery community organization led by people with lived experience of substance use and recovery. The organization operates The Access Center as its primary facility—a recovery community center in Augusta offering peer-led recovery support meetings, recovery coaching, treatment referrals, harm reduction services, and basic needs support. ME-RAP also runs multiple programs including Project Doorstep (community naloxone distribution via door-to-door canvassing), Community Clean-Ups, Youth Caucus, and various trainings. Through its sister organization Maine Recovery Action Project (ME-RAP Action Project), it conducts legislative advocacy, listening sessions, and opioid settlement transparency work statewide.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Access Center: A recovery community center in Augusta, Maine providing peer-led recovery support meetings, referrals to treatment, harm reduction services, showers, storage, housing and employment navigation, and community programming.
• Youth Caucus
• Project Doorstep

Products and services

• The Access Center A recovery community center in Augusta, Maine providing peer-led recovery support meetings, recovery coaching, treatment referrals, daytime drop-in services, showers, personal storage, housing and employment navigation, and harm reduction services including syringe exchange and naloxone distribution.
• Project Doorstep A grassroots organizing initiative that uses door-to-door deep canvassing to deliver naloxone and life-saving education directly to community members, trained on naloxone administration and the Good Samaritan Law.
• Community Clean-Ups Organizes community clean-up events to beautify parks, streets, and neighborhoods, including on-call community syringe disposal services and on-site exchange.
• Youth Caucus Youth-led initiative empowering young people affected by substance use to develop community impact projects, with caucuses in Kennebec, Penobscot, and Washington Counties for ages 12-18.
• Trainings & Support Offers various trainings including naloxone administration (adult and youth-led), advocacy 101, recovery language 101, the science of addiction, and employment workshops.
• Legislative Advocacy / Maine Recovery Action Project A bipartisan grassroots network that amplifies voices of people with lived experience to shape responsive and equitable public policy through the statewide organizing team.
• Listening Sessions Community engagement sessions held across Maine's 16 counties to gather lived experiences with substance use, harm reduction, mental health, and related challenges to inform policy platform.
• Opioid Settlement Transparency Advocacy initiative ensuring opioid settlement funds are directed toward life-saving, community-centered solutions through tracking, accountability, and local empowerment.

Quantifiable outcome

• 939 registered participants, 15,900+ drop-ins, 351 recovery support meetings, 5,006 boxes of naloxone distributed, 887 showers provided, 100+ participants supported in accessing housing or treatment
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MOSS Center (Maine Opioid Settlement Support Center)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMOSS Center is a nonpartisan centralized source of information related to the allocation of opioid settlement funds. ME-RAP partners with MOSS to track and advocate for responsible spending of settlement funds and uses the MOSS OSF Spending Dashboard as a key transparency tool.
• Maine Recovery CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Maine Recovery Council oversees and ensures transparency in how Maine's share of the national opioid settlement is spent. ME-RAP actively engages with the Council to advocate for community-centered funding priorities.
• Healthy AcadiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerME-RAP partners with Healthy Acadia's Maine Alliance for Recovery Coaching to implement a Recovery Coach Program at the Access Center. This collaboration supports structure, ethics, supervision, and culture needed for peer recovery coaching.
• Maine People's AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaine People's Alliance is a key ally in ME-RAP's advocacy coalition, particularly around opioid settlement fund transparency and progressive policy reform in Maine.
• CushNoc BrewingminorOthersLocal Augusta business and community partner that supports ME-RAP's community clean-up initiatives and recovery community events.
• Maine Association of Recovery Residences (MARR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerME-RAP partners with MARR and its affiliates across Maine's recovery residences to address shared challenges including housing, mental health, and substance use treatment, as well as supporting recovery residence staff and operators.
• Points North InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with ME-RAP Youth to produce the short film 'Recovery in Maine: Youth Voices,' documenting youth perspectives on prevention, healing, and hope at the Maine State House and Governor's Opioid Response Summit.
• Bangor Area Recovery Network (BARN)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRecovery community center in Brewer, ME that has hosted ME-RAP listening sessions and collaborates on addressing SUD recovery, criminal justice reform, and housing challenges.
• Maine Youth Action NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerME-RAP partners with Maine Youth Action Network on youth advocacy and leadership development, including joint testimony at the Maine Recovery Council meeting with 23 young people from 7 counties.
• Maine Health Access Foundation (MEHAF)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as a partner organization supporting ME-RAP's statewide advocacy and organizing work in Maine.
• Maine Prisoner Advocacy CoalitionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerME-RAP conducts listening sessions with MPAC addressing issues of mass incarceration, probation violations, decriminalization, and challenges faced by individuals with criminal records.
• South Paris ChurchminorOthersDonated 50 Christmas dinners to Access Center participants during the holiday season, demonstrating community support for ME-RAP's programs.
• Augusta Teen CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Kennebec Youth Caucus used peer-to-peer naloxone training curriculum to train youth at the Augusta Teen Center on overdose response and naloxone administration.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Oxford House: National network of sober living homes run by and for people in recovery. Comparable peer-led recovery housing model that complements ME-RAP's housing navigation referrals in Maine.
• National Harm Reduction Coalition: National advocacy and capacity-building organization for harm reduction, including syringe access and naloxone distribution. Frames ME-RAP's Project Doorstep and syringe-exchange work within the broader national harm reduction movement.
• Faces & Voices of Recovery: National recovery advocacy organization promoting the recovery community movement. Comparable to ME-RAP's statewide organizing and legislative advocacy function at the national level.

Direct peers

• Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR): Pioneering recovery community organization built on peer-led recovery coaching and advocacy. The conceptual model that ME-RAP's 'listening first,' lived-experience framework closely mirrors.
• Bangor Area Recovery Network (BARN): Recovery community center in Brewer, Maine offering peer-led support, harm reduction, and advocacy. Direct operational peer to ME-RAP's Access Center model and an existing collaborating partner (hosts ME-RAP listening sessions).
• Healthy Acadia: Maine-based public health nonprofit that operates the Maine Alliance for Recovery Coaching. Direct peer on recovery coaching programming and an ME-RAP partner implementing the Recovery Coach Program at the Access Center.
• Maine Association of Recovery Residences (MARR): Statewide network of recovery residences in Maine addressing housing, mental health, and substance use. A core ME-RAP partner addressing adjacent recovery housing needs for the same population.

Regional players

• Granite Recovery Centers: New Hampshire-based (with Maine reach) substance use treatment provider offering detox, residential, and outpatient services. Comparable recovery/treatment continuum that the Access Center refers into.
• Preble Street: Portland, Maine-based social services nonprofit offering drop-in services, housing navigation, and harm reduction for unhoused and substance-using populations. Comparable drop-in and basic-needs service model to the Access Center within Maine.

Emerging players

• NEXT Distro: National online harm reduction platform distributing naloxone and supplies by mail. Comparable naloxone-distribution mission to ME-RAP's Project Doorstep, but operating through a different channel (mail vs. door-to-door canvassing).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MERAPVoices
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Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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