Our Story

After working with the Department of Human Services for several years managing group homes and doing treatment foster care in their home, as a couple, Linda and Melvin Guiggey decided they wanted to try to do more for children who required out of home placement.

Melvin and Linda were then informed by the state that there was no upfront funding for opening a residential facility. They talked with state licensing for residential facilities and acquired a copy of the Maine state regulations, then they set out to write policies and procedures for a six bed residential facility for teen girls.

Eight months later, after rewrites and communication with licensing, they were issued a license to operate a six bed facility in the home that they raised their own children in, located in Mars Hill. Due to the fact that there was no funding for startup costs, they moved into another home that they owned and started their residential facility with five of those beds full, and in the following four weeks the sixth bed was occupied.

In 2001, The Northern Lighthouse, Inc. employed three people in the residential facility to start the program.

We now offer the following services to assist families and children that have varying are in need of assistance: Case Management, Outpatient Therapy, Section 28 – Direct Care Services, Adult Community Integration & Skill Building, Home & Community Based Treatment, and operate the Safe Harbor BCP Youth Shelter.