Fifty years of service by Saint Andre’s was recognized with gala events and special awards. Among them were a Service Award Night for staff and a Recognition Banquet for St. Andre’s Ladies Auxiliary. At the annual board meeting, members were given gifts of appreciation for their selfless service as volunteers. Bishop Joseph Gerry celebrated the official closing of the 50th Anniversary with a special Mass, followed by the presentation of Good Shepherd Awards at a ceremonial dinner.
Licenses related to child adoption and placement of troubled teens were granted to Saint Andre Home from NH, VT, and CT. Boston College's internship program became part of Saint Andre Home's program in 1994. The Board of Directors voted to enter into a formal agreement with Southern Maine Medical Center for referrals of patients, especially in crisis situations.
A Mission Effectiveness Study was “strongly reflective of [Saint Andre’s] official public mission statement,” viewing its work as being grounded in a spiritual apostolate, compelling it towards “compassionate service to women, children, and families experiencing crisis and need.”
1997 brought the start-up for a new group home in Lewiston called Mary’s Place. Mary’s Place admitted its first client in May 1998, with Bishop Joseph Gerry officially blessing the new facility in October of the same year.
Saint Andre Home was approved in 1994 as a “Private Non-Medical Institute” and was now able to bill for Medicaid clients.
Saint Andre’s was in the news; including a Channel 13 program on Adoption Services, articles in Church World, Sebago Employee News, and Le Courier Bon Pasteur, and a United Way campaign video that included an adoptive couple's story. Saint Andre’s “Pretty Good Newsletter” began publication in 1992, and in 1996 the executive director, Dr. Greg Foltz, visited Russia and started the Sophia Fund to raise money for a Russian orphanage.
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