Green Valley Association

Green Valley Association has its roots in caring volunteers from our community and has developed through providing services needed by people in our area who have intellectual and cognitive disabilities. Services have become more diverse and have changed over the years, but our founding principle of control by, and service to, local community member... s has not changed. In 2007, Green Valley Association celebrated 40 years of serving the people of southern Aroostook and northern Penobscot counties. In 1967, Green Valley Association for Retarded Children was incorporated. It was, and continues to be, a nonprofit corporation governed by a board of up to 12 directors. At its inception, Green Valley provided advocacy services and some academic programming. Over the next 10 years, dedicated family and other community members volunteered to provide academic education for children in borrowed spaces with donated materials. In 1977, a one-year grant of $25,000 was awarded to Green Valley to provide academic and vocational services to 11 people. A building was purchased and Green Valley Center opened with one full-time and one part-time employee. A year later the name of the corporation was changed to Green Valley Association for the Retarded. In 1979, the Green Valley Group Home was opened in Island Falls as a boarding home housing six men. The next year this residence was certified as an Intermediate Care Facility serving people with Mental Retardation (ICF/MR). The name of this program was changed in 1988 from Green Valley Group Home to One Sewall Street. In 1983, the Green Valley Patten Group Home was opened. It, too, was an ICF/MR facility providing housing to four men and two women. Along the way this home was renamed 24 Katahdin Street. June of 1986 marked the end of Green Valley Center's academic programs. At that time, all academic programs in our catchment area were integrated into the local school systems. Green Valley Center was then used for the agency's day programs. Green Valley Center operated three ...Read More