Up Coming Maine Hospice Council Events
Sharing the Darkness: Hope Squad Maine
September 16, 2024
9:00AM to 11:00AM
Viles Estate
71 Stone Street, Augusta, ME 04330
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This event is presented by Matt Brown, visionary and creator of Home Squad Maine.
Matt Brown is a retired law enforcement officer, who now works as a peer support at the Spurwink Living Room Crisis Center in Portland, Maine. He is also a funeral attendant responding to death calls. He has worked with marginalized populations, particularly the unhoused, for over 30 years.
Ten years ago a vision emerged within him to create a volunteer homeless outreach group in Portland, using a retired ambulance as the primary 'vehicle' to provide a consistent, compassionate, accepting, loving presence to the unhoused.
Matt also had a further vision to incorporate a mobile (and one day a small brick and mortar) hospice program specifically serving the unhoused population who so often lack faith and trust in traditional medical interventions. Sadly many die alone.
Two years ago, his vision became reality and Hope Squad Maine was born!
Hope Squad Maine is a mobile outreach program in Southern Maine. Hope Squad Maine is a dedicated group of volunteers who operate a mobile outreach that provides love, compassion and resources to the unhoused in Portland.
Their mission is to see those that are invisible; to hear those that have no voice, and to reinforce the infinite value and worth of each person they meet by providing a loving, compassionate and consistent presence, needed resources and hope to those living in the shelters and on the streets of Maine through our mobile peer outreach.
To learn more about Hope Squad Maine- Click Here
We hope you can join us to hear share his extraordinary journey to serve the under served.
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