About Creative Work Systems

Creative Work Systems has been supporting Mainers with disabilities since 1967. We have grown significantly over the past four decades and now support hundreds of people each year and employ a staff of over 250 people.

Mission Statement

Creative Work Systems seeks to enable persons with cognitive, physical and psychiatric handicaps to increase or regain self-sufficiency through employment, independent living support, and personal skills development and social/interpersonal opportunities. CWS will diminish the social, cultural, employment, attitudinal and physical barriers which impede participation in community life. CWS is committed to providing these services in the least restrictive, most cost-effective manner possible. Paramount in CWS programs is consumer satisfaction and, when necessary and possible, CWS will modify its services to achieve this goal.

Central to each and every CWS program is the understanding that all people have a valuable contribution to make to each other and to society. It is our mission that by combining this understanding with a standard of excellence throughout all CWS programs, we can make a positive and significant difference both for individuals and for the community.

Hearts for Haiti

Artists from YES Art Works are busy making one-of-a-kind, hand-painted hearts on recycled wood and are selling them for $1

We are giving 100% to Haitian Relief Efforts. All money will go directly to Doctors Without Borders.

Help the artists make a difference - Buy a heart for Haiti!

You can find these hearts on sale at all CWS offices.