The Warren Center for Communication & Learning will be able to give the gift of hearing to members of our community this holiday season thanks to the Rite Aid Foundation.

The Regional Hearing Aid Bank (ReHAB) is the recipient of a $9000 grant from the Rite Aid Foundation. The grant allows the Warren Center to provide hearing aids to members of the community who could not otherwise afford them.
“We are grateful to the Rite Aid Foundation for this grant,” said Mary Poulin, administrative director of the Warren Center. “Their generosity will allow at least 20 people in our community to improve their quality of life and regain the hearing that was lost.”

The ReHAB program accepts hearing aids from the community, both behind-the-ear (BTE) and in-the-ear (ITE), models. The BTEs are refurbished and given to people who cannot afford to purchase hearing aids of their own. ITEs cannot be reused, so they are sent to a recycling facility and the Warren Center gets a small monetary credit which helps cover costs of the program.

The program is dependent upon the donation of hearing aids and the Warren Center is currently in need of donated behind-the-ear models. Hearing aids can be delivered or mailed to the Warren Center office at 175 Union Street, Bangor, Maine 04401. Contact the Warren Center at 941-2850 for more information.

The Warren Center for Communication & Learning is Bangor’s oldest not-for-profit professional speech and hearing center. The Warren Center provides evaluations, therapies and technologies in the areas of speech, language development and hearing to the children and adults of Eastern and Central Maine.