A Company of Girls is a collaborative arts program that works with approximately 40 adolescent girls from ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds.Girls are provided opportunities through various mediums to increase their life and social skills, enhance their communication skills and build stronger self-image and self-worth. Agency phone: 207.874.1140
PARTNER AGENCIES
United Way of Greater Portland partners with nearly 40 Partner Agencies to support 89 premier programs that serve a broad range of populations and issues.
Through the Community Care Fund, we invest millions upon millions of dollars from individuals and organizations to improve lives and strengthen health and human services in our community. Partner Agencies open their programs and budgets to intense review by the Community Investment Process volunteers and United Way staff. Targeted program outcomes and results drive our funding decisions and are critical to understanding how your investment is improving people’s lives.
Together, our Partner Agencies, investors like you, Community Investment Volunteers and United Way work as a team to provide educational, supportive, crisis and preventative programs to our community.
United Way of Greater Portland provided funding to the following Partner Agencies during the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
United Way Funding Provided: $44,627
United Way Funding Provided: $114,699
American Red Cross of Southern Maine assists victims of natural or man-made disasters. Provides as needed the essentials to survive: shelter, food, clothing, medical care and basic household furnishings. Also provides education on preparing for emergencies.
Agency phone: 207.874.1192
Agency website: www.southernmaine.redcross.org
American Red Cross of Southern Maine – Armed Forces Emergency Services Program United Way Funding Provided: $15,000 Provides 24-hour-a-day emergency communication and financial assistance to families who have a member on active duty in one of the military services.
Agency phone: 207.874.1192
Agency website: www.southernmaine.redcross.org
United Way Funding Provided: $45,501 A member directed organization which fosters a community for consumers of mental health services. A drop-in center provides a broad range of activities in a safe and supportive environment.
Agency phone: 207.773.1956
Agency website: www.amistadinc.org
United Way Funding Provided: $46,455 Works with children ages 6 – 17, primarily through supported one-to-one relationships with caring adults who assist them as they grow to become mature, responsible adults. Volunteers are trained as mentors and matches are monitored by staff. The major goals of the program are to provide at-risk youth with positive role models, mentors, and friends who can help them realize their potential.
Agency phone: 207.773.KIDS
Agency website: www.somebigs.org
Boys & Girls Clubs – Individual & Group Services United Way Funding Provided: $58,820 The personal and educational component provides opportunities in career development, enhances educational achievement, develops skills in independent living and goal setting, and offers assistance in resolving personal crises. The citizenship and leadership development component develops leadership skills and provides opportunities for decision-making.
Agency phone: 207.874.1069
Agency website: www.bgcmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $130,384 Helps youth enhance their self-expression and creativity through visual arts, crafts, performing arts, games and library arts. Helps youth get along with others, make new friends and learn to use leisure time constructively.
Agency phone: 207.874.1069
Agency website: www.bgcmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $139,960 Helps youth achieve and maintain fitness, acquire physical skills, and learn teamwork, cooperation and fairness. The outdoor and environmental education core helps youth to develop an awareness and appreciation of a variety of settings. It also promotes wise use of natural resources and develops living and survival skills.
Agency phone: 207.874.1069
Agency website: www.bgcmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $68,919 Catherine Morrill Day Nursery, the oldest child care center in Maine, provides care for children ages 6 weeks – 5 years from all socioeconomic levels. Over half of the children receive subsidized care. Provides developmental child care programs based on children’s needs and interests, and supports the needs of families. Offers families emotional support and help with parenting issues. Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Agency phone: 207.874.1115
Agency website: www.catherinemorrill.org
United Way Funding Provided: $86,041 Independent Support Services provides homemaking services to allow elderly clients, disabled individuals, and families in crisis to remain in their homes. It also helps families needing support with parenting skills and child rearing. Services include grocery shopping, laundry and errands, light house cleaning, household management, emotional support, parenting skills and occasional respite care. Agency phone: 207.871.1161 Agency website: www.ccmaine.org Catholic Charities Maine – Support & Recovery Services United Way Funding Provided: $57,990 Provides case management services to people with serious and prolonged mental illnesses. Assesses the functional needs of clients, assures that the services identified in the treatment plan are delivered, and provides crisis intervention as appropriate.
Agency phone: 207.773.1956
Agency website: www.ccmaine.org
Catholic Charities Maine – Counseling Services United Way Funding Provided: $15,834 Provides outpatient counseling (individual, group and family) to adults experiencing problems due to the misuse of alcohol/drugs. In addition to assisting clients become abstinent, the program seeks to increase clients’ employability, eliminate clients’ criminal activity, and assist clients in becoming more stable and productive members of society. United Way funds assist in providing services to low-income clients.
Agency phone: 207.775.5671
Agency website: www.ccmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $42,062 Provides developmentally appropriate child care to children aged 15 months to 5 years. Committed to serving both low-income and non-low-income children in an inclusive environment that is individualized to meet each child’s needs. The program advocates for the child and places the welfare of children and families at the foundation of all its activities. Parental involvement is a cornerstone of all programs. Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Agency phone: 207.871.7444
Agency website: www.ccmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $23,113 Resettles all persons classified as refugees by the federal government regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin. The diversity of the refugees resettled in Maine closely reflects the quotas set annually by the President. CC staff works with them to access housing, English skills, jobs, and medical and mental health services that will allow them to begin a new life here and become part of the community in which they live.
Agency phone: 207.871.7444
Agency website: www.ccmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $77,287 FIRST is a home-based counseling program is designed to help currently or potentially abusive parents. Connects with those families who are physically unable or emotionally unready to come to the agency. Counseling services are also offered to children. SAT clients must be members of families in which the intra-familial sexual abuse of a child up to the age of 18 is alleged or has occurred. Relies on a mixture of individual, family, and group therapy, although emphasis is put on group work.
Agency phone: 207.874.1030
Agency website: www.commcc.org
Community Counseling Center – Outpatient Clinical Services United Way Funding Provided: $240,726 Involves individuals, couples, and families in a process of understanding themselves and each other on issues including interpersonal relationships, stress, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, child abuse, spousal abuse, and teen pregnancy.
Agency phone: 207.874.1030
Agency website: www.commcc.org
United Way Funding Provided: $4,834 Offering programs and services to refugee and immigrant youth with serious emotional and behavioral issues, the goal of the program is to empower youth to succeed in school, at home, at work, and in the community. The program builds a network of services to help troubled young people.
Agency phone: 207.874.1030
Agency website: www.commcc.org
Community Counseling Center – Education for Living United Way Funding Provided: $7,530 Promotes healthy individual and family functioning by preventing and reducing crises, expanding coping capacities, and enhancing individual and family development. Services are tailored to meet the specific needs of those who request them, including businesses, agencies, schools, and community groups.
Agency phone: 207.874.1030
Agency website: www.commcc.org
United Way Funding Provided: $130,891 Provides affordable oral health treatment services on a sliding fee scale to individuals and families in Cumberland County. Services include basic preventive and restorative dental care, such as cleanings, x-rays, fluoride treatments, sealants, fillings, root canals, dentures & partials, and extractions. All services are delivered by State licensed dentists and hygienists.
Agency phone: 207.874.1028
Agency website: www.communitydentamel.org
United Way Funding Provided: $10,780 A public/private partnership with local volunteer dentists that provides dentures at no cost for qualifying low-income and disadvantaged individuals. Clients served have made measurable gains in health, self-esteem and employability.
Agency phone: 207.874.1028
Agency website: www.communitydentalme.org
United Way Funding Provided: $15,000 The STEP program helps people with developmental disabilities determine what type of work they want to do in the community, helps them find work and supports them through their work experience with job coaches. CPI clients work in a variety of jobs in the community, some requiring long-term support. Maximum independence is the goal for each program participant.
Agency phone: 207.780.9575
Agency website: N/A
United Way Funding Provided: $23,270 Provides support for youth in the transition period from residential treatment to the community. The first few months after re-entering the community are an especially critical time for establishing long-term sobriety and productive living.
Agency phone: 207.767.0991
Agency website: www.day-one.org
United Way Funding Provided: $30,400 The Natural Helpers component provides training and support to a network of trusted students within school settings so that they may help their peers through factual information and support. Prevention staff provides support and technical assistance to student awareness projects and hold presentations upon request.
Agency phone: 207.767.0991
Agency website: www.day-one.org
United Way Funding Provided: $63,031 Homeless youth workers reach out to and provide substance counseling to homeless youth through the Preble Street Teen Center Collaborative.
Agency phone: 207.767.0991
Agency website: www.day-one.org
United Way Funding Provided: $36,000 Intensive Outpatient Counseling serves adolescents who are in need of intensive substance abuse treatment. The program offers a variety of education, therapy and experiential components to clients who are unable to stop abusing substances. The program serves youth between the ages of 13-19 years.
Agency phone: 207.767.0991
Agency website: www.day-one.org
United Way Funding Provided: $7,364 An intensive 13-week in-home counseling program for families experiencing a high level of crisis, seeks to keep families intact and to provide an alternative to a family member being removed from the home and placed in State custody.
Agency phone: 207.767.0991
Agency website: www.day-one.org
United Way Funding Provided: $7,530 A licensed mental health treatment project provides counseling and education to male and female adolescents. Collaborates with Preble Street Resource Center to provide a drop-in center. Provides educational programming through the Street Academy.
Agency phone: 207.767.0991
Agency website: www.day-one.org
United Way Funding Provided: $24,000 This program seeks to educate, train, and inform various groups, service organizations and policy makers on the dynamics of domestic abuse, and to ensure proper response to domestic violence. The program offers trainings to elementary, middle and high school.
Agency phone: Hotline: 1.800.537.6066 or 207.874.1973
Administrative Office: 207.874.1973
Agency website: www.familycrisis.org
United Way Funding Provided: $25,632 Provides 24-hour emergency refuge for women and children escaping abusive homes. Families can stay up to 30 days while advocates work to link them to appropriate social services. Intervenes in the cycle of violence and abuse, providing therapeutic help to the children so that they may avoid becoming victims or abusers themselves.
Agency phone: Hotline: 1.800.537.6066 or 207.874.1973
Administrative Office: 207.874.1973
Agency website: www.familycrisis.org
United Way Funding Provided: $39,400 This program works with women who cannot or do not use the Family Crisis Shelter, providing support, encouragement, and information about legal options and services. Advocates provide assistance to victims pursuing legal sanctions and accompany women through the court process.
Agency phone: Hotline: 1.800.537.6066 or 207.874.1973
Administrative Office: 207.767.4952
Agency website: www.familycrisis.org
United Way Funding Provided: $39,104 The Frannie Peabody Center is the largest AIDS service organization in the state of Maine. Services include case management support, prevention education and outreach services which are provided to those infected and affected with HIV/AIDS. Anonymous HIV counseling and testing services are provided as well as an HIV/AIDS hotline. United Way funds are used to provide case management services for people affected with HIV/AIDS.
Agency phone: 207.774.6877
Agency website: www.peabodycenter.org
United Way Funding Provided: $14,300 Offers a variety of services to residents of the towns of Freeport and Pownal, including information and referral, a family life support group, elder services, clothes, camp, transportation, case management, food, fuel assistance, a job bank, a medical loan closet and a holiday helpline.
Agency phone: 207.865.3985
Agency website: http://fcsmaine.org/
United Way Funding Provided: $20,285 Troops services develop individual potential and values through educational and recreational activities for girls in the 4th through 8th grades.
Agency phone: 207.772.1177
Agency website: www.girlscoutsofmaine.org
Goodwill Industries of Northern New England – Community Skills Program United Way Funding Provided: $89,752 Provides skills training in personal, social, physical, financial, and vocational development to severely handicapped participants in order to maximize their independence.
Agency phone: 207.774.6323
Agency website: www.goodwillnne.org
United Way Funding Provided: $52,932 Reduces the incidences and effects of disease and disability in mothers, infants, and children through home visits and well-child clinics throughout the county. Provides skilled nursing care for acutely or chronically ill children, childbirth education, and prenatal and postpartum health supervision. Reinforces links with local physicians and community resources.
Agency phone: 207.775.7231
Agency website: www.homehealth.org
United Way Funding Provided: $39,530 Provides health care services through home visits by registered nurses, physical, speech, and occupational therapists, and home health aides. Service is available 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week as needed. Fee determination is based on the patient’s ability to pay.
Agency phone: 207.775.7231
Agency website: www.homehealth.org
United Way Funding Provided: $28,906 Provides legal services to low-income non-citizens and their U.S. citizen family members regarding immigration issues and immigration-related access to benefits and services through consultations and referral, immigration application assistance, full legal representation, and education and outreach.
Agency phone: 207.780.1593
Agency website: www.ilapmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $22,203 Provides comprehensive rehabilitation and support services to blind and visually impaired children and adults in learning adaptive Activities of Daily Living; Computer Access Technology; Utilization of Low Vision Aids; Techniques for Independent Travel; and Adjustment Counseling related to vision loss. Residential services and Maine AIRS, a newspaper reading service are also provided. United Way contributions support Vision Rehabilitation services for older adults in Cumberland County who are blind or visually impaired.
Agency phone: 207.774.6273
Agency website: www.theiris.org
United Way Funding Provided: $20,000 Provides families with resources and support during separation and divorce, helping them develop positive co-parenting strategies and negotiate family transition in a healthy way. United Way provides funding for support groups for children, lead by professional counselors.
Agency phone: 207.761.2709
Agency website: www.kidsfirstcenter.org
United Way Funding Provided: $13,177 Provides free, high quality legal services to socially and economically needy elderly citizens. United Way funds help support the long-term care project which helps seniors obtain the long term care they need and would not be able to obtain without legal services.
Agency phone: 207.621.0087
Agency website: www.mainelse.org
United Way Funding Provided: $16,444 Representation services for elders who are victims of physical abuse and financial exploitation. Program goals are to remove seniors from abusive situations, re-establish independence and form a community response to elder abuse.
Agency phone: 207.621.0087
Agency website: www.mainelse.org
United Way Funding Provided: $10,838 Free phone service enabling every needy Maine senior to have direct and free access to an attorney or paralegal over the phone. The helpline provides brief legal representation, legal information and referrals to clients relating to basic needs such as food, housing and medication. The helpline advises clients about their rights and options for a wide array of legal issues.
Agency phone: Helpline: 800.750.5353 / Office: 207.621.0087
Agency website: www.mainelse.org
United Way Funding Provided: $21,085 The My Choice Residence program is targeted toward pregnant young women in crisis who have already decided to continue with their pregnancy, and who must decide whether to parent their child or to place the child for adoption. Client needs include counseling, parent education, medical care, food and clothing.
Agency phone: 207.772.3678
Agency website: www.adoptusa.com
United Way Funding Provided: $36,512 A drop-in center offering access to the positive relationships and meaningful activities that allow youth-in-need to thrive and be resilient in the face of difficult life circumstances. It is located in Westbrook and serves 350 young people.
Agency phone: 207.854.2800
Agency website: www.mptcteens.org
United Way Funding Provided: $68,007 Offers educational programs, therapy, vocational training and recreation for multi-physically handicapped children and adults. Provides an academic/therapeutic environment which utilizes a team approach to treat the client and family. United Way funds services for school-age and preschool children.
Agency phone: 207.874.1125
Agency website: www.mdcmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $84,801 Offers evaluation and therapy for hearing and speech problems. Services include determining the presence, degree, severity and kinds of hearing loss and speech/language problems for clients who are typically preschoolers (aged 2-5) and older adults. Therapy for hearing problems includes habilitation and rehabilitation to increase the client’s ability to learn and to function in daily life. Therapy for speech problems includes habilitation and rehabilitation services for articulation, voice, language, and fluency.
Agency phone: 207.874.1065
Agency website: www.nehearingandspeech.com
United Way Funding Provided: $40,509 Provides full-time and part-time year round care to children aged 3-6; 90% of the children come from families struggling with low income. The integrated age group setting is designed to meet the developmental needs of children and their families. Communication with the parents and with the community at large is a vital part of the program. Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Agency phone: 207.766.2854
Agency website: http://picw.org
United Way Funding Provided: $23,280 Provides services to young parents, at-risk children, and families with special needs children. Foster Grandparents act as role models and provide parenting skills, respite care, and one-to-one support and friendship.
Agency phone: 207.874.1140
Agency website: www.propeople.org
United Way Funding Provided: $179,442 Provides care to preschool and school-aged children from families with low-income in 17 centers throughout Cumberland County. Provides nurturing care, developmentally appropriate educational activities, and a full meal program. Offers parents access to counseling and other support services, parenting and family life education programs, parents’ groups, and family social/recreational activities. Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Agency phone: 207.874.1140
Agency website: www.propeople.org
United Way Funding Provided: $29,282 Senior Companions are individuals age 55 and over who volunteer 20 hours per week to support the independence of frail and vulnerable seniors. Senior Companions aid other seniors in leisure activities, assist them with grocery shopping, accompany them to medical appointments, or just visit with them in their home. Senior Companions may also provide short periods of relief to primary caregivers.
Agency phone: 207.874.1140
Agency website: www.propeople.org
United Way Funding Provided: $91,500 Addresses the legal needs of domestic violence victims. Services range from advising victims of their legal alternatives to providing court representation in Protection from Abuse hearings and divorce cases. Also handles cases involving custody disputes and continued abuse (both physical and sexual) of children. In addition, handles selected Protection from Harassment cases to provide a means for obtaining protection for domestic violence victims who do not meet the criteria of the Protection from Abuse statute.
Agency phone: 207.774.4753
Agency website: www.ptla.org
affiliate for donor designation only Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) is an advocate for reproductive health care access and services as well as a trusted health provider, health education and professional training resource for communities throughout northern New England, including four in Maine. PPNNE’s busiest facility in Portland is the largest reproductive cancer screening site in Maine and offers a full range of reproductive health services to over 8,000 women, men and teens annually with 11,000 visits.
Agency phone: 207.510.2201
Agency websites: www.ppnne.org and www.realliferealtalk.org
United Way Funding Provided: $64,028 Provides emergency shelter for homeless and at-risk adolescents aged 10-17. Offers a safe place to stay at night while staff helps the youth develop placements and referrals appropriate to their needs.
Agency phone: 207.775.0026
Agency website: www.preblestreet.org
United Way Funding Provided: $35,000 Provides breakfasts to homeless and low-income individuals and families 7 days a week. Program staff makes contact with new arrivals to refer them to social services. Outreach workers from 21 social service agencies meet with clients over breakfast each morning.
Agency phone: 207.775.0026
Agency website: www.preblestreet.org
United Way Funding Provided: $94,137 Provides housing assistance and support services to individuals and families in need of emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent, affordable housing, as well as additional shelter hours for the homeless in the winter when shelter and other support programs are not available.
Agency phone: 207.775.0026
Agency website: www.preblestreet.org
United Way Funding Provided: $125,680 A drop-in program for homeless, runaway and at-risk adolescents. Provides meals, drop-in center, employment services, casework and advocacy. A wide range of other services are made available through strong partnerships with agencies co-located at the Center.
Agency phone: 207.775.0026
Agency website: www.preblestreet.org
United Way Funding Provided: $34,138 The Preble Street Women’s Shelter is an emergency 43 bed overnight shelter for single homeless women. In addition to immediate safety and shelter, social workers offer crisis intervention, housing location assistance and casework services to assist women in moving out of the shelter and off the streets as soon as possible.
Agency website: www.preblestreet.org
United Way Funding Provided: $73,692 Offers transportation services – via buses and volunteer drivers – to residents of Cumberland County with emphasis on the elderly, the handicapped, the economically disadvantaged, and the clients of social service agencies. Unlike a fixed route system, clients contact the agency to arrange for transportation to various services, including child care for state-protected children, detoxification, counseling, AA and other support group meetings, rehabilitation programs, shopping for the elderly and the handicapped, workshops and work sites for the developmentally disabled, emergency shelters, training programs for the disabled, nutrition sites, etc.
Agency phone: 207.774.2666
Agency website: www.rtprides.org
United Way Funding Provided: $23,000 Provides transitional housing and support services for men who are recovering from substance abuse and drug addiction. Serenity House helps these men return to self-sufficient lives in the community. Agency phone: 207.774.2722 Agency website: www.serenityhousemaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $4,725 Professional facilitators assist victims and survivors of incest, sexual assault and child sexual abuse. The group provides a safe, confidential, and supportive environment, in which participants learn new coping skills.
Agency phone: HOTLINE 1.800.313.9900 / Office 207.828.1035
Agency website: www.sarsonline.org
United Way Funding Provided: $19,000 Training on sexual assault and abuse is provided to first-response professionals. Educational presentations in schools, churches, businesses and other organizations help create a climate of understanding and compassion, destroy myths, and provide information about the aftermath of sexual assault. Education also helps decrease the likelihood of victimization by teaching awareness and personal safety strategies.
Agency phone: HOTLINE 1.800.313.9900 / Office 207.828.1035
Agency website: www.sarsonline.org
United Way Funding Provided: $12,000 Provides a crisis hotline which receives over 2,000 calls per year. Volunteers and staff intervene in crises, make referrals, help with safety planning, escort people to hospitals, police stations and court appearances and make follow-up calls. Agency phone: HOTLINE 1.800.313.9900 / Office 207.828.1035 Agency website: www.sarsonline.org
United Way Funding Provided: $15,623 A nine-member mobile Supported Housing Team provides support and services to several apartments and rooming houses. The support team helps provide stability to residents recovering from mental illness, enabling them to continue to live successfully in the community.
Agency phone: 207.874.1080
Agency website: www.shalomhouseinc.org
United Way Funding Provided: $29,180 This service provides one-on-one support to clients who need help accessing resources, navigating the city, and seeking out recreation and socialization. Peer support workers, all of whom have experienced mental illness are actively working on their own recovery, and receive extensive training and regular supervision.
Agency phone: 207.874-1080
Agency website: www.shalomhouseinc.org
United Way Funding Provided: $8,689 This community outreach program allows Shalom House residents to share factual information and personal experiences about living with mental illness. Their stories emphasize that with hard work, faith, and support, recovery is possible. Presentations are available to schools and civic groups. To receive more information about this program or to schedule a presentation, call Philip Bender at 207-874-1080.
Agency phone: 207.874.1080
Agency website: www.shalomhouseinc.org
United Way Funding Provided: $16,817 The Tender Living Care is a collaborative program that provides support for children, teens and their parents who have someone in the family with a life-threatening illness. Support is offered through home visits and a six-week peer support group called “Time of Change.”
Agency phone: 207.775.5216
Agency website: www.cgcmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $1,745 The Outreach program focuses on providing crisis intervention in schools, as well as grief education to community groups.
Agency phone: 207.775.5216
Agency website: www.cgcmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $21,991 The Center provides support to children and families who have experienced the death of a family member or friend through self-help groups and outreach activities. Last year, peer support groups served 171 children and youth as well as 102 adults. Center programs are open to families regardless of socioeconomic background.
Agency phone: 207.775.5216
Agency website: www.cgcmaine.org
United Way Funding Provided: $24,578 The Western Unit, located in Bridgton, supplies affordable, accessible mental health care to rural residents of western Cumberland County. Provides care to both the chronically mentally ill and those in need of mental health counseling. Emergency services offer support to people in dangerous or life-threatening situations. Outpatient care provides counseling on a sliding scale fee to the general public.
Agency phone: 800.286.5629 or 207.647.5629
Agency website: http://www.tcmhs.org/
An affiliate of Mercy Hospital, VNA provides clinically excellent, compassionate home health and hospice care to individuals and families in their homes. Services range from nursing services, elder services, support for chronic disease management support, physical therapy and hospice care.
Agency phone: 207.780.8624 or toll free 800.757.3326
Agency website: http://www.mercyhospital.org/content/VNAHomeHealthHospice.htm
United Way Funding Provided: $21,403 This program “rescues” close to one million pounds of perishable food each year. Wayside collects and distributes the food to 40 rural and urban food pantries and soup kitchen throughout Cumberland County at no cost to the recipient agency.
Agency phone: 207.775.4939
Agency website: www.waysidesoupkitchen.org
United Way Funding Provided: $22,752 Located in Standish, this program serves children aged 6-14, 30% of whom are subsidized. Acts as summer day care, providing recreational opportunities for youth.
Agency phone: 207.874.1111
Agency website: http://www.portlandymca.com/
United Way Funding Provided: $37,367 Provides learning activities to school-age children through swimming.
Agency phone: 207.874.1111
Agency website: http://www.portlandymca.com/
United Way Funding Provided: $30,680 Provides learning activities to school-age children through sports.
Agency phone: 207.874.1111
Agency website: http://www.portlandymca.com/
United Way Funding Provided: $19,217 Provides learning activities to school-age children before and after school and throughout the summer. Activities include arts and crafts, swimming and sports. Provides services both on-site and in neighborhood communities.
Agency phone: 207.874.1111
Agency website: http://www.portlandymca.com/
United Way Funding Provided: $70,986 Serves children 8-12 years old, who have been identified by one of five local school systems as being at-risk and in need of services. Runs a weekly after-school group meeting and provides a week-long residential camping experience, an adventure-based counseling approach, and a summer camping experience.
Agency phone: 207.874.1111
Agency website: http://www.portlandymca.com/
United Way Funding Provided: $14,943 Family mediators and professional case managers work with families who are in conflict in a neutral and supportive environment to foster better communication among family members. By helping family members find new ways of talking and listening, Family Mediation improves relationships and empowers families to make good decisions. Family Mediation can help family members have productive discussions, explore choices, ease tensions and arguments and feel heard and connected.
Agency phone: 207.874.1175
Agency website: www.youthalternatives.org
United Way Funding Provided: $148,176 Multiple shelters providing immediate crisis care to boys and girls aged 7-17 who may have been abused, are homeless, or are experiencing family conflict which impedes their ability to live at home. Provides youth and families with information and referrals. Family reunification is a primary goal.
Agency phone: 207.874.1175
Agency website: www.youthalternatives.org
United Way Funding Provided: $40,000 Offers new parents the support of a home visitor. The program on Portland’s East End provides support and education around parenting and child development, as well as a link to other community resources.
Agency phone: 207.874.1175
Agency website: www.youthalternatives.org
United Way Funding Provided: $24,000 Provides a variety of activities, including advocating for better children’s services, educating the community about issues related to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, and improving the delivery of existing children’s services. Offers training on identifying, reporting and preventing child abuse to all mandated reporters.
Agency phone: 207.874.1175
Agency website: www.youthalternatives.org
United Way Funding Provided: $96,000 A licensed mental health program, offers a wide range of supportive services to families including high-risk pregnant and parenting teens and their children. Ensures adequate pre- and post-natal care and information, infant and toddler child care, peer support systems, and childbirth and parenting education.
Agency phone: 207.874.1175
Agency website: www.youthalternatives.org
United Way Funding Provided: $17,600 Provides weekly, free visual arts classes to elders and adults with disabilities at Franklin towers and Harbor Terrace. Includes therapeutic arts programming for elders with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia as well as a volunteer artist component which trains residents to be artist mentors to their neighbors.
Agency phone: 207.874.1175
Agency website: www.youthalternatives.org
United Way Funding Provided: $32,236 Youth and Family Outreach operates Preble Learning Center, providing infant, toddler and preschool child care services with a priority to young, low-income families who are in school, working or job training. Affordable, quality care is available in a developmentally appropriate setting, with a diverse population of children and families. Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Agency phone: 207.874.2370
Agency website: www.yfoutreach.org