Falmouth Service Center Expands Services

Brenda Swain, executive director of the Falmouth Service Center.

Brenda Swain, executive director of the Falmouth Service Center.

FALMOUTH – The Falmouth Service Center is not just a food pantry. That’s the message from the center’s Executive Director Brenda Swain.

“Oftentimes when someone comes to the door for the first time, they’re not even asking for food,” she said.

The service center was incorporated in 1983, Swain said, when several people in the faith community working with Peter Kirwin, who was then director of Falmouth Human Services, determined that there was a need in Falmouth for a central place for people to go for help.

That was the beginning of the center.

The organization moved four times in 20 years. But in the mid-1990s, with a board of directors that included Margaret Hough Russell, the editor and publisher of The Falmouth Enterprise; Bob Murray, the director of the Falmouth Housing Authority; Rabbi Elias Lieberman of the Falmouth Jewish Congregation; and Peter Kirwin and started a building campaign so that the Falmouth Service Center could meet more needs at a permanent location, Swain said.

“As a result of those initiatives, in 2002, land was purchased and a building was built at 611 Gifford Street in Falmouth where we have been ever since,” Swain said.

To hear more, listen below to Brenda Swain, executive director of the Falmouth Service Center.

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