[1] She attended Waterville Senior High School and the University of Maine at Farmington.
[2] After graduation and marriage, Abrams worked as a substitute teacher in the home economics department of Waterville Senior High School.
[1] In 1973 she joined the staff of the Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers as the first teacher in their Teen Parent School Program, which provides an "alternative" high-school education combined with classes in childcare and parenting for pregnant teens.
[6] In 1978 the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation invited Abrams to participate in a study of its new "curriculum of caring".
[7] In 1996 she was appointed as a member of the Committee to Study Poverty Among Working Parents in the 117th Maine Legislature.