‘There is hope’: Parents open women’s treatment center in memory of daughter

WASHINGTON, Maine (WABI) - A new women’s center to treat substance use disorder held their grand opening Saturday in Washington.

Co-founder Debbie McCue says the center came to be out of a desire to use grief for good.

Two years after losing their daughter to a 14 year battle with addiction, parents Carl and Debbie McCue opened Tessa’s House , a 16-bed residential center for women healing from substance use disorder.

“She personally traveled all over the country to try to get well,” Debbie describes of her late daughter. “We wanted her legacy to continue and maybe help someone else’s daughter, sister, mother, aunt, best friend.”

What sets Tessa’s House apart from other centers, per State of Maine’s Director of Opioid Response Gordon Smith, lies in where they meet residents in their r