Attachment and trauma difficulties are two significant barriers to achieving optimal mental health and wellness. Better Things, Inc. was founded to help residents of Aroostook County, Maine overcome those barriers. While every person’s experience is unique, most behavioral and mental health needs are trauma-related. Some sources indicate as many as 90% of individuals have experienced or witnessed at least one traumatic event. The negative impact from such events is healed in the context of healthy attachments. Typically we learn to form healthy attachments in early childhood, however, research has shown more than one-third of parent-child relationships are insecure.

Our Partnerships:

Better Things, Inc. is led by a volunteer board of directors, including a chair, secretary, and treasurer, with an executive director who serves as an ex-officio board member and oversees daily operations. In order to best achieve the mission and vision, Better Things, Inc. collaborates with churches, schools, clinicians, parachurch ministries, community organizations, and mental health agencies throughout Aroostook County. Better Things, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, marital status, disability, age, national origin, or for any other reason.

Our Vision:

Better Things, Inc. will facilitate improved relationships and posttraumatic growth for the people of Easton, Maine, and Aroostook County as a whole, through care services delivered to caregivers.