Healthy Living for ME (HL4METM) will use this grant to enhance existing statewide community integrated health network (CIHN), 

build and strengthen the operations and infrastructure of HL4ME as the network lead entity (NLE), and strengthen, facilitate, and 

support the evolution of the aging and disability network. 

Individuals 18+ with a focus on older 

adults and people with disabilities 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scaling Network Lead Entities Grantee Profile 

Network Name: Central Maine Area Agency on Aging 

Grant Goal: 

Grant Partners: 

• Aroostook Agency on Aging 

• SeniorsPlus 

• Spectrum Generations 

• Maine Office of Aging and Disability Services 

• Aroostook Agency on Aging 

• Eastern Area Agency on Aging 

• SeniorsPlus (the Western Maine Area Agency 

on Aging) 

• South Maine Agency on Aging 

• 211 Maine 

• All Maine Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) 

• 15 External Organizations Support effort 

Target Population: Award: 

$291,056 

Grant Objectives: 

1) Draft governance formalities of a new business 

agreement and/or entity, applying for 501(C)3 or 

appropriate business model with appropriate 

liability and professional insurances 

2) Use the Business Acumen Maturity Model to assist 

in develop a revised business plan 

3) Use the LEAN practices to improve sub-contractual 

relationships and payments 

4) Develop a managerial and cost accounting system 

5) Develop the brand to support community 

awareness and develop a legislative strategy 

6) Determine a process for blending and braiding 

7) Participate in education/communication activities 

8) Assess network provider gaps in services 

9) Advocation for Maine’s long-term services and 

supports (LTSS) redesign 

10) Implement person-centered planning/counseling 

11) Enhance IT infrastructure to link network to the 

Health Information Exchange (HIE) 

Grant Summary: 

In this 2-year project, Healthy Living for ME, a d/b/a of Spectrum 

Generations (SG) with key collaborating organizations SeniorsPlus (SP) 

and Aroostook Area Agency on Aging (AAAA) will strengthen, expand, 

and establish HL4ME as the NLE of a statewide CIHN. Through this 

grant, HL4ME will respond to the demand for home and communitybased services (HCBS) to be delivered across larger geographies and 

with a new frontier of competition. This grant will support HL4ME to 

further evolve its infrastructure to become a viable, competitive social 

enterprise that meets and creates demand for its services. In ME, 

there is no define No Wrong Door (NWD) System that wraps services 

for older adults or individual with disabilities but the Office of Aging 

and Disability Services, with the Medicaid Agency, published 

recommendations for reforming LTSS and HL4ME will align this work 

with those recommendations. The AAAs in the CIHN will continue to 

deliver services in line with NWD Key Access Functions. 

HL4ME operates as the NLE in a fledgling statewide CIHN with over 20 

services providers, including all of Maine’s 5 AAAs, various YMCAs and 

senior centers, health care providers and systems, community-based 

organizations, and volunteers. The existing contractual partnership 

between AAAA, SG and SP will be expanding to meet the additional 

SDOH goals of the CIHN that they support as HL4ME. As a results, 

HL4ME will promote improved health outcomes by further 

coordinating and streamlining access to health and social services 

options so that individuals can obtain the care they need. HL4ME will 

build upon existing operations, infrastructure, and sustainability of 

programming for delivery of HCBS and LTSS. Additionally, through this 

grant, HL4ME will strengthen and support the aging and disabled 

network to deliver high quality services in a community integrated care 

environment, facilitating alignment across health care and social 

services. All of ME’s AAAs have experience contracting with various 

health plans and systems but this grant will allow further growth in 

HL4ME’s role as a single-contracting source to increase breadth of the 

network. 

There will be a special focus will be representing underserved 

populations and addressing social determinants of health (SDOH). 

Planned Activities for NLE enhancement will focus on: 

☒Leadership 

☒Finance 

☒Business Development 

☒Network Development and Support 

☒Network Administration 

Grant Contact: 

Kristin Overton, Chief Operating Officer, Health Living for ME, koverton@spectrumgenerations.org