About Common Ground Friends
Founded to help Maine see itself more clearly.
Our mission
End the stigma around mental illness, addiction, and homelessness in Maine.
Our founders — clinicians, advocates, and people in long-term recovery — spent years inside the systems meant to help, and watched stigma decide who received compassion and who received judgment.
So we work project by project: documentary film and free community conversation.
What we do
Care, community, and art are not separate missions — they are one continuous act of seeing people fully.
Film & free screenings
Our 78-minute documentary, InhuMAINE, travels to schools, libraries, town halls, and festivals — free for communities, usually with a Q&A or resource panel.
Clinical education
Screenings are endorsed by Husson University’s Graduate Counseling Program for 3 continuing-education units.
Community partnerships
Grassroots collaborations that elevate lived experience and help people navigate housing, healthcare, and belonging.
Connecting to help
Free, confidential help for Mainers: 988, the Maine Crisis Line, NAMI Maine, and 211. Resources
Who our work is for
Homelessness, addiction, and mental illness rarely arrive alone. Our film, screenings, and partnerships are built for the people living inside those overlaps, and for the people trying to help.
People without a home
Neighbors living in shelters, cars, tents, and encampments. We tell their stories with dignity and point them to local help.
People in recovery
Anyone living with addiction or rebuilding after it, and the families who love them. Our founders include people in long-term recovery.
Veterans
Service members and veterans facing housing loss, mental health challenges, or substance use. Our team includes a Navy veteran and clinical social worker.
Students & future clinicians
College and graduate classrooms use InhuMAINE as a teaching tool, with 3 continuing-education units through Husson University.
Providers & policymakers
Shelter staff, outreach workers, clinicians, social services leaders, and officials who shape the systems people depend on.
Communities across Maine
Libraries, congregations, campuses, and town halls ready for an honest conversation. Host a screening.
Rogan O’Donnell on the panel · Norwich, NY
The people
Bridges, not silos.
Rogan O’Donnell, MS
Founder · DocumentarianClinician, advocate, and filmmaker. Rogan spent 19 months documenting Bangor’s homelessness crisis, then carried InhuMAINE into festivals, classrooms, and policy rooms across the Northeast.
Sazha Ramos
Clinical Social Worker · Navy VeteranFounder of Recovery Organization Resources. Sazha has worked at the intersection of recovery, veteran care, and behavioral health — from the VA to national treatment programs.
Help Mainers see each other more fully.