Home Care
This program provides supportive community services to older adults and adults with disabilities in order to avoid or delay nursing home placement including environmental modifications,
Eligibility: I am looking for home modification funding
Adults with Brain Injury
This program is for individuals 18 years and older who have sustained an acquired brain injury due to an insult to the brain resulting directly or indirectly from trauma, infection, anoxia, or vascular lesions, and not of a degenerative or congenital nature. The waiver provides services such as environmental adaptations that support community living.
Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disability and/or Autism
This program help Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) and/or Autism strive to live as independently as possible. A range of services and supports are available to help them achieve this goal — in their homes, in the community, and in the workplace.
Home Repair Network Program
The Home Repair Network program provides funding statewide to address housing problems of low- and moderate-income persons. The program provides housing rehabilitation services administered on a regional basis throughout Maine via Community Development Block Grants. Services include the rehabilitation of occupied or vacant single-family or multi-family housing units, demolition, same-site replacement housing, provision of potable […]
AccessIble Home Tax Credit
This tax credit of up to $9,000 may be used for modifications that make the home more accessible for people with a physical disability or a physical hardship who live or will live at the residence to qualify. Allowable expenses include changes to flooring to mitigate tripping hazards, installation of grab bars, installation of access […]
Community Aging in Place
The Community Aging in Place Grant Program offers no-cost home safety checks, minor maintenance repairs, and accessibility modifications to eligible low-income elderly and disabled homeowners. It is modeled after Bath Housing’s Comfortably Home program and based on the evidence-based CAPABLE Program from Johns Hopkins University. It is administered by eight Public Housing Authorities and two […]
Home Repair
The Maine State Housing Authority’s Home Repair Program provides grants to low-income homeowners who cannot afford necessary home repairs, including improvements necessary to permit use by persons with disabilities or who are experiencing physical barriers living at the home.
Maine CITE Program
The State Assistive Technology Grant Program, funded under the Assistive Technology Act of 2004, supports comprehensive, statewide programs in each state that improve the provision of assistive technology (often home modification-related) to individuals with disabilities of all ages.
Maine State Fall Prevention Coalition
The Maine State Falls Prevention Coalition provides information to help prevent falls and fall-related injuries among older adults in Maine.
EZ Fix Program
The EZ Fix Program helps older adults and adults with disabilities to remain safely in their homes by providing minor home repair, housekeeping, and in-home technology training and services throughout rural Eastern Maine. Initially, Eastern Area Agency on Aging (EAAA) recognized that low-income seniors were struggling to keep their homes repaired and established a volunteer-based […]