Oxford
Oxford County at a Glance:
- 25.6% of children under 18 live in poverty.**
- 36.1% of children in Oxford County receive SNAP benefits, 65.5% of school-aged children are eligible for subsidized school meals.**
- 25% of children are living with food insecurity.**
- The infant mortality rate in Oxford County is 4.6 per 1,000.**
- 6.3 per every 1,000 children in Oxford County are in DHHS custody.**
- 60.6% of children in Oxford County participate in MaineCare.**
- 47.1% of people in Oxford County are not currently in the workforce.*
- 20% of the population is under the age of 18.*
- 45.1% of the population achieved a high school degree; 10.2% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.*
- The high school graduation rate for Oxford County is 87.8%.**
*Source: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2012-2016
**Source: Maine Kids Count
Grants Awarded in this Region
| Date | Organization | Award | Description | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Center For an Ecology-Based Economy, Community Food Matters | $10,000 | To support the Foothills Foodworks project, which pays community members a fair wage to make meals which are then provided to food insecure Oxford County residents. | Norway, ME |
| 2021 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service in Western Maine that provides rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2021 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rumford, ME |
| 2021 | RSU 56 | $2,400 | To provide transportation support to families of remote or in-person learners who are truant, disengaged from learning, or otherwise in need. | Dixfield, ME |
| 2021 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Leeds, ME |
| 2021 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To support community meals and food distribution programs serving low-income people, including home-delivery to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Oxford, ME |
| 2021 | Western Maine Transportation Services | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Auburn, ME |
| 2020 | Community Concepts, Inc. | $40,000 | To support efforts to reduce family stress, isolation and child abuse through socially-distanced visits to at-risk families during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2020 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2020 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Rumford, ME |
| 2020 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Leeds, ME |
| 2020 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Oxford, ME |
| 2019 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To support a volunteer-based transportation service providing rides to medical appointments for individuals without other transportation options. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2019 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide food to low-income food-insecure children, families and senior citizens in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
| 2019 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating to support at-risk individuals living in rural areas of Androscoggin, Kennebec and Oxford counties via services for basic needs, homelessness and hunger prevention. | LEEDS, ME |
| 2019 | South Portland Food Cupboard | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations. | SOUTH PORTLAND, ME |
| 2019 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To support community meals and food distribution programs serving low-income people, including home-delivery to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Norway, ME |
| 2019 | University System Of New Hampshire, Keene State College - Behavioral Health Improvement Institute | $90,000 | To support an evaluation of the Oxford County Resiliency Project. | Keene, NH |
| 2018 | Lake Region Senior Service | $7,000 | To provide support for the general operations of a transportation program serving low-income seniors and disabled residents throughout four counties in Southwestern Maine. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2018 | Oxford County Mental Health Services | $200,000 | Two year grant to engage Oxford County schools in becoming trauma-informed and integrate resiliency-building into school culture. | Rumford, ME |
| 2018 | Oxford County Mental Health Services | $15,000 | To provide support for general operations for the provision of comprehensive behavioral health support and education to schools, children and families in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
| 2018 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $15,000 | To provide food to low-income families in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
| 2018 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide general operating to support at-risk individuals living in rural areas of Androscoggin, Kennebec and Oxford counties via services for basic needs, homelessness and hunger prevention. | Leeds, ME |
| 2018 | The Progress Center | $25,000 | To support a community kitchen program distributing healthy food to low-income people in Oxford County, including home-delivered meals to recently discharged hospital patients at risk for malnutrition. | Norway, ME |
| 2018 | Wayside Food Programs | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to increase access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food in Cumberland, Oxford, and York counties. | Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Lake Region Senior Service | $9,000 | For general operating support. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2017 | River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition | $25,000 | To provide food to families in Oxford County. | Rumford, ME |
| 2016 | Community Concepts | $224,000 | To support data analysis, the ability to conduct a strategic analysis of its housing capacity, and greater efficiency in transportation scheduling. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2016 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To provide support for programs that provide transportation to low-income seniors, disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2016 | Oxford County Mental Health Services | $25,000 | To provide mental health services and intervention when law enforcement has become involved in a mental health crisis. | Rumford, ME |
| 2016 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To support programs aimed at alleviating hunger and homelessness for the most vulnerable residents in 13 central Maine towns. | Leeds, ME |
| 2016 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To support direct services such as emergency housing to men and women fleeing domestic violence situations. | Auburn, ME |
| 2016 | Sexual Assault Crisis Center | $25,000 | To provide mental health services to children who have been sexually abused in Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties. | Auburn, ME |
| 2016 | The Progress Center | $15,000 | To provide support for a community kitchen program serving children, youth and families in Norway. | Norway, ME |
| 2015 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To support transportation programs for low-income seniors, disabled citizens, and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2015 | MaineHealth Care At Home | $25,000 | To support the Pediatric Social Work/Navigator Program, which helps children and families coping with the challenges of cancer; and the Pediatric Telehealth Oncology Program, which allows families to access care from their homes. | Saco, ME |
| 2015 | Oxford Hills School District | $50,000 | To provide a summer learning program that reflects research-based best practices. | Oxford, ME |
| 2015 | SeniorsPlus | $25,000 | To provide funding for Meals on Wheels for older adults in Androscoggin County. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2015 | The Progress Center | $25,000 | To support the Community Kitchen program, which serves nutritious meals to low-income children, adults, and the elderly in Norway, Maine. | Norway, ME |
| 2014 | Community Concepts | $20,000 | To provide funding so seniors and veterans with a cancer diagnosis in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties can access life-enhancing treatment via Community Concepts' transportation program. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Lake Region Senior Service | $10,000 | To provide transportation to low-income seniors, disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2014 | Oxford Hills School District | $24,000 | To provide supplemental funding for the implementation of a summer learning program aimed at addressing summer learning loss. | Oxford, ME |
| 2014 | Oxford Hills School District | $50,000 | To address summer learning loss for students entering grades K through 3. | Oxford, ME |
| 2014 | Rural Community Action Ministry | $15,000 | To provide operating support for programs aimed at alleviating hunger and homelessness for the most vulnerable residents in thirteen central Maine towns. | Leeds, ME |
| 2014 | Safe Voices | $15,000 | To provide general operating support to provide direct services such as emergency housing to men and women fleeing domestic violence situations. | Auburn, ME |
| 2014 | SeniorsPlus | $20,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to older adults. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2014 | Sexual Assault Crisis Center | $15,000 | To provide operating support for victims of sexual violence across three counties in Maine. | Auburn, ME |
| 2014 | Western Maine Community Action | $95,000 | Two year grant to support a federal match for the Keeping Seniors Home program and to develop a long-term sustainability plan. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2013 | Community Concepts | $15,000 | To provide seniors transportation to and from medical appointments. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Easter Seals Maine | $25,000 | To provide Early Intervention services such as preventative physical, occupational, speech, and language therapies to disadvantaged children from birth to age 5 with disabilities, special needs, and various mental illnesses. | Portland, ME |
| 2013 | Lake Region Senior Service | $5,000 | To provide transportation to low-income seniors and disabled citizens and cancer patients. | Bridgton, ME |
| 2013 | Oxford Hills School District | $49,984 | To support a summer learning program aimed at addressing potential summer learning loss in RSU 17. | Oxford, ME |
| 2013 | SeniorsPlus | $25,000 | To provide Meals on Wheels to older adults currently on the wait list. | Lewiston, ME |
| 2013 | Western Maine Community Action | $67,000 | To support the the Keeping Seniors Home Program, which helps Maine seniors age in place. | East Wilton, ME |
| 2012 | Mahoosuc Kids Association | $15,000 | To provide after school programming specific to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) for up to 450 youth. | Bethel, ME |
| 2012 | The Progress Center | $10,000 | To provide operating support for a soup kitchen that serves up to 200 meals per day, three times per week. | Norway, ME |