Winter 2025 Newsletter: Creating Conditions for Maine Children to Thrive
Winter 2025 Newsletter focuses on supports for young children and their families.
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Data Snapshot: Maine Supports for Early Childhood Development
Our latest Data Snapshot examines how these early childhood supports have reached Maine families in recent years. While there are encouraging signs among the trends, many areas still need improvement.
Building a ‘Community of Prevention’ in Midcoast Maine
John T. Gorman Fellow Jessica Berry has joined other leaders to create the Midcoast Community Collaborative, which is now implementing a new initiative to deliver strengthen community-wide supports for young children and their families.
From Lived Experience to ‘Lifeline’
In Lewiston-Auburn, Community Health Workers are leveraging their lived experiences in a promising initiative to improve outcomes for immigrant families with young children.
‘We are working to emphasize prevention’
In this interview, we talk to Maine Child Safety and Family Well-Being Plan coauthor Melissa Hackett, a John T. Gorman Fellow and prevention advocate who helped lead the report’s vision of “keeping children safe by keeping families strong.”
2025 DSGP Application Period Opens February 24
The 2025 Direct Services Grant Program application period will open on Monday, February 24, and close Monday, March 24.
2023 & 2024 Progress Report
Report shares strategies we’re testing, emerging data of the impact our partners are having on families, and early lessons from these initiatives.
Data Brief Shows Gaps in Maine Families’ Access to Transportation
A new data brief compiled for the John T. Gorman Foundation shows the extent of Maine’s transportation access issues. Tens of thousands of Maine people lack reliable access to transportation – a critical access point for work, education, and more.
Press Herald: Two-generation approach helping families thrive in Bangor
For hundreds of households in Bangor’s Capehart neighborhood, Moving Families Forward has led to higher incomes for parents, improved academic results and well-being for children, and strengthened family relationships. The program is a partnership of BangorHousing and the Boys and Girls Club of Bangor, with support from the John T. Gorman Foundation. “Everything in this … Read more
Fall 2024 Newsletter: Unlocking opportunity for children and families
In our fall newsletter, you can learn more about how the John T. Gorman Foundation is working with our partners to support an education system that helps children and families thrive.