Mainspring adds staff, expands as need rises across Seacoast

By: Ian Lenahan

Outlets: Seacoast Online

Published: October 8, 2026

Words: 1,016

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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KITTERY, Maine —The social services hub Mainspring is expanding its services and physical space, less than two years after its February 2025 opening.

Four hundred client intakes and roughly 1,800 individual case management sessions have been recorded at Mainspring in the past year.

The collective social services model — bringing housing, food and fuel aid with general assistance services under one roof — is working, Mainspring’s co-executive directors Emily Flinkstrom and Megan Shapiro say. But …

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