Aroostook — District 8

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• Aroostook District Coordinating Council
• Steering Committee
• District Committees
• Meetings & Events
• Publications

Maine's nine Public Health Districts are geographic areas that work to improve public health in the state. Each district is made up of one or more counties. In 2011, in collaboration with the five Maine Tribal jurisdictions, a Tribal Health District was established with boundaries determined by Tribal Health Center service areas and tribal jurisdictional boundaries.

At A Glance

• Aroostook Public Health District -- District 8 -- Covers Aroostook County
• Aroostook district population: 67,105 people, 10.1 individuals per square mile (2020 Census)
• 1 county government: Aroostook County
• 68 municipalities (incorporated local governments)
• 2 federally recognized tribal nations: Mi'kmaq Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseets

Resources

• District Public Health Improvement Plan (PDF)
• Local Public Health System Assessment (PDF)
• 2021 Health Data Profiles (Link)
• 2022 Final Community Health District Reports (Link)

District	Town	Program	Referral/Reporting #	Staff
Downeast Public Health District	Maine DHHS 30 Skyway Drive Unit 100 Caribou, Maine 04736 139 Market Street Suite 109 Fort Kent, Maine 04743-1447 11 High Street Houlton, Maine 04730	Public Health Nursing	1-888-644-1130	Tammy Mitchell (Consultant) (Tel.) 207-493-4188
		Health Inspections	1-800-821-5821	Karen Jacobs (Tel) 207-592-7459
		Epidemiology	1-800-821-5821	Craig Rothfuss
		Drinking Water		Larry Girvan (Tel.) 207-788-3610 (Office)(Tel.) 207-592-7386
		District Public Health Liaison	1-800-821-5821	Stacy Boucher (Tel.) 207-493-4087 (Office)

Aroostook District Coordinating Council

The Aroostook District Coordinating Council (Aroostook DCC) is a representative, district-wide body formed in partnership with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) to engage in collaborative planning and decision-making for the delivery of the ten essential public health services in the Aroostook Public Health District. The Aroostook Public Health District includes 68 communities in Aroostook County.

The Vision of the Aroostook DCC is: Inspiring Leadership, Engaging Communities, Improving Health

The Mission of the Aroostook DCC is to be the district-wide representative body for collaborative public health infrastructure development in Aroostook County by:

• Ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of the ten Essential Public Health Services in Aroostook County.
• Creating and sustaining partnerships and shared public health resources.
• Promoting countywide collaboration in public health assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
• Continually enhancing the quality of public health services provided.

How do we meet this mission?

We mobilize working partnerships to combine efforts and resources within the district to produce results that no one community, organization, or sector could achieve effectively or efficiently alone.

We follow a multi-year plan of objectives, strategies, and outcomes for district action called the District Public Health Improvement Plan (DPHIP) in collaboration with district partners and the Maine CDC. The DPHIP informs the State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP).

Our priorities:

• Improving cardiovascular health
• Reducing impact of substance abuse
• Improving healthy weight

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Steering Committee

• Dr. Rachel Albert, Chair, University of Maine at Fort Kent
• Joy Barresi Saucier, Vice Chair, Statewide Coordinating Council (SCC) Representative, Aroostook Agency on Aging
• Laura Turner, Aroostook Medical Center
• Ellen Bemis, Aroostook Mental Health Center
• Susan Bouchard, Fish River Rural Health
• Leah Buck, Northern Maine Community College
• Stacy Boucher, District Liaison, Maine CDC

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District Committees

Ad hoc committees are formed when needed, including Finance, District Priorities, and Membership committees.

The Council is made up of (elected) Council members representing public health sectors that are identified in the Council's bylaws and interested persons within the District. Please join us for one of our Council meetings to learn more about the work we do.

• Council Members (PDF)

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Meetings & Events

The Aroostook District Coordinating Council (Aroostook DCC) meets at the Northern Maine Development Commission building, 11 West Presque Isle Road, in Caribou, Maine.

The calendar of events below includes Aroostook District Coordinating Council and Committee meetings, as well as meetings and events from around our District, that have been submitted by our Council members. Please contact District Liaison Stacy Boucher stacy.boucher@maine.gov to have your meeting or event added to the calendar.