Each home is run by highly trained married couple referred to as Family Teachers. They provide care for youth in the home as well as for their own family. The treatment program includes teaching and modeling personal, academic, and social skills, independent living skills, family-style living, peer relationships, and motivation based upon earning privileges. Self-government, centered upon daily family conferences, and regular communication with families and teachers are central to the life of each house. Recreation and enrichment opportunities are included through regular group activities and outings.
Individual counseling is provided through outside agencies.
The ultimate objective of Weymouth House is to teach adolescents, through a positive family-like experience, the disciplines necessary for productive, independent living. Weymouth House is governed by a Board of Trustees and is aided by hundreds of supportive, community-based friends. Both trustees and supporters are committed to helping troubled adolescents in the State of Maine. The organization is named for George Weymouth, the English explorer who sailed the coast of Maine in the early 1600s. Originally called the Lincoln County Group Home, it was founded in 1977 through the efforts of the Midcoast Meeting of Friends to meet a community need.