Maine Pretrial Services

Maine Pretrial Services, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides case management services to individuals involved in the criminal justice system, specifically those with substance use disorders and/or mental health issues. Through various federal grants, primarily from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, the organization serves as a subrecipient providing criminogenic substance use disorder case management to participants in specialty courts such as adult drug treatment court, veterans treatment court, co-occurring disorders court, and family recovery courts across Maine.

As a subrecipient of federal grants, Maine Pretrial Services delivers case management services to the specialty court participants diagnosed with substance use disorders and/or mental health disorders. The goal of these services is to reduce dependency and recidivism among criminal offenders with such disorders. Specific activities include coordinating treatment services, monitoring participant progress, and helping participants develop skills and access resources needed to become productive citizens. In addition to Department of Health and Human Services grants, Maine Pretrial Services has received a federal subaward from Cumberland County to provide general case management services. The organization also recently began providing peer support services to incarcerated individuals under a federal grant for promoting healthy jail communities.