We’ve changed our name and our location!

Western Maine Community Action
Health Services

Our Auburn location has moved to
PO Box 1038
179 Lisbon St, Lewiston, ME 04243
795.4007 or 1.800.587.9354
www.wmca.org

Same Great Staff & Services
With a New Name
And
Terrific New Location!

Western Maine Community Action Health Services includes a range of clinical, outreach, education, awareness and support services.   

If you are…  

A woman or teen who needs birth control
A male or female, adult or teen who wants to get tested for sexually transmitted infections
A lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning youth looking for support
A teacher needing help with your sexual health curriculum
A youth worker who would like support in teaching sexual health issue…

Then the Western Maine Community Health Services is here to help.  For more information contact any of our locations.
 

FAMILY PLANNING & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE 

Our Mission: Western Maine Community Action Health Services is the reproductive health and family planning program of WMCA.  Western Maine Community Health Services are committed to providing expert, caring, and affordable health services and information to help women and men, teens and adults, make informed decisions affecting their health and lives. 

Locations: Our offices are located in Farmington, Lewiston, Norway and Rumford.  Our Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Clinic is in Auburn.  We also offer family planning services at Sacopee Valley Health Center in Porter. 

Confidentiality: All of our services are confidential.  We will not tell anyone that you are a client here or release any information about you unless you ask us to.

Eligibility: Western Maine Community Action Health Services are open to anyone, male or female, teen or adult.  We have a discount fee program that determines prices for our services.   

To find out more, call any of our locations

Our Clinical Services include:

For Women

• Routine physicals including breast & pelvic exams and pap smears

• Birth control counseling & supplies

• Emergency contraception

• Treatment of common gynecological problems

• Pregnancy testing & options counseling

• Pre-pregnancy counseling

• Prenatal counseling, education, & referral services

• Testing, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

• Colposcopy & cryotherapy for evaluation and treatment of abnormal pap smears

• Midlife/Menopause consultation and treatment

• FREE pap smears & breast exams (if income eligible) through the Maine Breast and Cervical Health Program.

For Men

• Testing, diagnosis and treatment of STI’s (sexually transmitted infections)

For Both

• Anonymous HIV counseling and testing (Lewiston STD Clinic)

• Confidential HIV counseling and testing (all sites)

• School and sports physicals

The STD Clinic

• Evening STD clinics by appointment for men and women

• Anonymous & confidential HIV antibody counseling and testing by appointment.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

The long-term goals of the Community Outreach Program of Western Maine Community Action Health Services are to: 

• Reduce the incidence of teen pregnancy

• Improve the health of teens and adult women

• Reduce the incidence of sexually transmitted infections

• Increase access to reproductive health services for women and teens

• Increase community understanding of the services family planning provides

 The Community Outreach Educator works with many schools and non-profit organizations in the tri-county area.  For more information about Community Outreach, contact Psargent@wmca.org

FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION

The goal of the Family Life Education program is for teachers, parents and other adolescent provider agencies to have access to technical assistance, curriculum building, training, teaching and resources in order to: 

• Eradicate unintended teen pregnancy

• Reduce teen rates of sexually transmitted infections

• Help schools work with students to foster skills building around sexual and relationship issues and to promote abstinence or protection as options.

• Promote the integration of family life education into comprehensive sexuality health education in the K-12 curricula.

The Family Life Educator for Western Maine Community Action Health Services works in over 25 schools in the tri-county area.  For more information about Family Life Education, contact dbrown@wmca.org

LGBTQ YOUTH

Outright/Lewiston-Auburn: The mission of Outright/Lewiston-Auburn is to provide safe, supportive environments for youth age 22 and under who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and/or Questioning.

Outright/Lewiston-Auburn is dedicated to a philosophy of youth/adult collaboration that encourages and seeks out young people to be involved with every aspect of the program.

Outright is a positive environment for LGBTQ youth. 
We can go there and have people to talk to
In a comfortable atmosphere. 
At Outright you are not singled out for being the gay kid,
Because everyone is just like you. 
It is a place to be accepted. 
Outright is just cool. 

— Outright Youth

For more information about Outright/L-A, contact psargent@wmca.org or go to www.outrightla.org

Outright/L-A relies on the generous donations of individuals for its continued existence.  If you would like to make a financial contribution, send your tax-deductible donation to:

Outright/L-A
179 Lisbon St.,
PO Box 1038
Lewiston, ME
04240

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Healthy You Traveling Show

The Healthy You Traveling Show is a breast cancer awareness and education project.  Partially funded by the Maine chapter of the Susan G. Komen Foundation www.komenmaine.com. This project takes fun, interesting and interactive breast cancer information on the road.  This movable display will travel throughout the tri-county area, helping to spread information about breast cancer prevention, detection and diagnosis.

For more information, or to bring the Healthy You Traveling Show to your workplace or school, contact psargent@wmca.org