Resident Assistance Program

The goal of The Highlands’ Resident Assistance Fund Program is to provide financial assistance to residents of The Highlands community.

Why a fund?

Unplanned events do occur.   Sudden illness, the death of a spouse, financial reversals, and/or increased costs may put a resident at unanticipated financial risk.  The Resident Assistance Fund Program is designed to help with partial payments that will enable a member of this community to continue to live with friends and neighbors.

A Board of Directors, comprised of residents plus one person from outside The Highlands community, administers the Fund.  Residents apply confidentially to the Board for assistance; a resident must have lived at The Highlands for at least four years.

You can help support The Highlands Resident Assistance Fund Program by:

• Donating direct cash contributions
• Making regular voluntary additions to your monthly fee
• Assigning as an advance directive your rental security deposit to the Fund upon leaving The Highlands
• Including the Fund as a bequest from your estate, included in your will
• Naming the Fund as the recipient of memorials in your end-of-life planning
• Giving a gift in gratitude or in memory of someone
• Designating a portion of your share in the Estates cooperative when your share is sold

Many residents also become involved with activities and opportunities during the year to support the Fund.

Questions?

Contact a member of the Board of Directors by email, or write to the fund at:

Highlands Resident Assistance Fund, Inc.
Elizabeth Volckening
Board of Trustees President
c/o The Highlands
30 Governors Way
Topsham, ME  04086
lizvolckening@gmail.com