Mission
Empowering and supporting people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS in Maine through integrative care, education, advocacy, and prevention services.
Vision
Through continued innovation and a dedicated client-centered approach, we envision an end to HIV transmission and AIDS-related deaths.
Values
Frannie Peabody Center is driven by our extensive history of delivering client-centered services and support for people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, co-occurring conditions, and barriers to care. Frannie Peabody Center fosters compassion, resilience, courage, transparency, inclusiveness, collaboration, and innovation, while remaining steadfast in our goals of supporting sustained health for our clients and the community as a whole.
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FPC is committed to the ongoing process of evaluating our services to ensure our programs are empowering, uplifting, and centering clients. We are guided by an awareness that the individuals we serve have a wide array of life experiences and backgrounds, and every person faces a unique set of challenges on a path toward health stability.
FPC denounces any form of discrimination as it inhibits access to care and threatens the dignity of those we serve. We will continue to work with community partners, advocates, clients, funders and vendors to strengthen our programs through this lens, ensuring our services support the health and well-being of our clients and the whole community.
Our Model: Wrap-around services that support sustained health
Providing access to care through case management, behavioral health counseling, and housing assistance programs supports individuals in adhering to critical HIV medication, thus lowering HIV viral load. Sustained viral load suppression reduces the risk of transmitting HIV and contributes to lasting health and wellness. Our risk-reduction, education, and HIV testing services provide the community with the tools that best meet individualized needs in preventing HIV infection.
Who We Serve
Frannie Peabody Center clients face a diverse set of challenges and come from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. Clients range in age from a few years to over seventy, and represent several different races, ethnicities, and countries of origin.
Frannie Peabody Center serves over 400 people living with HIV/AIDS annually:
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60% live below the Federal Poverty Line
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35% are survivors of domestic violence
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33% have a history of or are currently unhoused
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75% are facing substance use and/or mental health issues
Our Funding
Frannie Peabody Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Our programs receive funding from various sources, including: the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS program (HOPWA), Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Maine Office of MaineCare Services, United Way of Southern Maine, as well as other private foundations and donors.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides financial support for the provision of Ryan White Part B Case Management Services. The award provided 88% of total costs and totaled $289,979 (calendar year 2024). The contents of this website is provided by Frannie Peabody Center. They may not reflect the policies of HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.
Our History: Frannie Peabody
“Frannie took the nearly invisible movement of AIDS activism in Maine and made it instantly respectable… We were out to stop the disease, nothing less, and Frannie was going to be our Joan of Arc.”
– John Preston
Through our name and our work, we are proud to honor the memory and celebrate the legacy of Frances W. Peabody (1903-2001), whose great energy and vision continue to be instrumental in providing HIV/AIDS services and programs in Southern Maine.
Board of Directors
Justin Burkhardt President, he/him
Jimmy Lucibello Vice President, he/him
Michael McDonald Treasurer, he/him
Paul Andrews Secretary, he/him
Patrick Afthim, he/him
Caitlin Eldridge, MSW, she/her
Lauren Gauthier, MPH, she/her
Molly Gilligan, Esq. she/her
KJ Gormley, OMS-II, they/them
Theo Greene, PhD, he/him
Matthew Hanly, he/him
Caroline Jackson, she/her
Sarah Lewis, MBA, she/her
Peter Mandly, he/him
Deborah Shields, JD, MPH she/her
Chloe Swerdlow, she/her
Tiffany Townsend, NP, AAHIVS, she/her
In Memoriam Timothy D. Stein, Esq. he/him
Agency Executive Staff
Katie Rutherford, she/her
Executive Director
krutherford[at]peabodycenter.org
Lorena Delcourt, she/her
Finance Director
ldelcourt[at]peabodycenter.org
Celine Burrows, she/her
Director of Development and Community Engagement
Charlotte Rogers, LCSW, she/her
Director of Client Services and Impact