Somerset
Somerset County at a Glance:
- 29.5% of children under 18 live in poverty.**
- 37.1% of children in Somerset County receive SNAP benefits, 69.5% of school-aged children are eligible for subsidized school meals.**
- 26.2% of children are living with food insecurity.**
- The infant mortality rate in Somerset County is 7.8 per 1,000.**
- 6.3 per every 1,000 children in Somerset County are in DHHS custody.**
- 9.6% of children in Somerset County participate in MaineCare.**
- 47.5% of people in Somerset County are not currently in the workforce.*
- 20% of the population is under the age of 18.*
- 41.8% of the population achieved a high school degree; 8% have a bachelor’s degree or higher.*
- The high school graduation rate for Somerset 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 | Emmanuel Lutheran Episcopal Church, Bridging the Gap | $15,000 | To provide general operating support. | Augusta, ME |
| 2021 | Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter | $10,000 | To provide general operating support. | Waterville, ME |
| 2021 | MSAD 54, Somerset Career and Technical Center | $15,000 | To support the food pantry, food box, and back pack programs of the MSAD 54 school district. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2020 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $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. | Waterville, ME |
| 2020 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $25,000 | To provide vulnerable patients in central Maine with emergency food bags, meal vouchers, transportation vouchers, and materials that share available community resources. | Augusta, ME |
| 2020 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $75,000 | To support in-home parent coaching using the Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Model. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $25,000 | To support the Homes and Community-Based Treatment Program, which provides intensive, in-home, team-based therapy for children and their families who are experiencing difficulties beyond the scope of regular outpatient counseling. | Waterville, ME |
| 2019 | KVCC Foundation | $95,000 | To support a dedicated Two-Generation Student Navigator, who will connect economically disadvantaged KVCC student parents to wraparound supports to ensure degree completion. | Fairfield, ME |
| 2019 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $130,000 | To support the provision of home-based parent coaching services through the modified Attachment and Biobehavorial Catch-up model to at-risk mothers in the Kennebec Valley Region. | Augusta, ME |
| 2019 | MSAD 54 | $60,000 | To support the Somerset Youth Collaborative, which works to provide alternate paths to graduation for Skowhegan area youth and improves school culture to be trauma-informed, so students feel valued and prepared to succeed. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2019 | Northern Light Inland Hospital | $25,000 | To support on-site food, food security resources, and transportation vouchers for primary care patients at Northern Light Inland Hospital who are screened and identified as in need of additional supports. | Bangor, ME |
| 2018 | Educate Maine | $100,000 | To support the fourth year of Elevate Somerset's effort to replicate Educare Central Maine's birth-to-kindergarten multi-generational model. | Portland, ME |
| 2018 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $12,906 | To provide matching funds for KVCAP's Low Income Heating Assistance Program. | Waterville, ME |
| 2018 | MSAD 54 | $14,850 | To support a community collaborative in developing a two-year action plan to improve youth outcomes in the Skowhegan region. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2017 | Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area | $15,000 | To provide support for hospice patients and their families. | Waterville, ME |
| 2017 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $25,000 | To provide support for the Homeless Youth Outreach Program, to ensure youth's basic needs are met, that they have access to mainstream resources, and that they achieve safe, stable housing. | Waterville, ME |
| 2017 | Pine Tree Hospice | $10,000 | For general operating support. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
| 2016 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $25,000 | To provide support to youth in Central Maine who are experiencing homelessness. | Waterville, ME |
| 2016 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $15,000 | To provide transportation services to individuals and families affected by cancer. | Waterville, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | $50,000 | To support Maine LEAP, a coordinated delivery of two evidence based programs to improve education and career outcomes for youth in foster care. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Muskie School of Public Service | $65,000 | To support an enhanced level of coordination and organization among all service providers who work with youth in foster care. | Portland, ME |
| 2016 | Pine Tree Hospice | $15,000 | To assist clients and families experiencing end-of-life challenges and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
| 2015 | Educate Maine | $147,000 | To act as the fiscal sponsor for the Maine Early Learning Investment Group early care and education pilot in Somerset County. | Portland, ME |
| 2015 | Kennebec Valley Community Action Program | $20,000 | To provide transportation services to individuals and families affected by cancer. | Waterville, ME |
| 2015 | MaineGeneral Medical Center | $25,000 | To provide support for developing one point-of-entry for patients seeking a potential oncology referral. | Augusta, ME |
| 2015 | Pine Tree Hospice | $15,000 | To provide operating support to assist clients and families experiencing end-of-life challenges and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
| 2014 | East Parish Housing Ministry | $5,000 | To provide support for general improvements to homes with substandard conditions. | Starks, ME |
| 2014 | Pine Tree Hospice | $15,000 | To provide operating support to assist clients and families experiencing the challenges and needs that accompany end of life and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
| 2013 | Central Maine Area Agency on Aging | $25,000 | To provide direct services to low income seniors and their family caregivers to help them remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Coastal Enterprises, Inc. | $600,000 | A three year grant to develop the organizational infrastructure required to best deploy capital to vulnerable populations in Lewiston, Portland, Machias, and Skowhegan. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2013 | Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County | $5,000 | To research and install an efficient, consistent, measurable training course for volunteers throughout the county. | Skowhegan, ME |
| 2013 | Hospice Volunteers of Waterville Area | $15,000 | To improve quality of life for isolated senior citizens in rural communities who are in need of hospice and grief services. | Waterville, ME |
| 2013 | Kennebec Mental Health Association | $20,000 | To support general operations of Kennebec Behavioral Health to serve low-income clients with mental illness. | Waterville, ME |
| 2013 | Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency | $12,500 | To pilot a multidisciplinary model that will improve the lives of older patients who suffer from Mild Cognitive Impairment and decrease patient isolation and caregiver burden. | Augusta, ME |
| 2013 | Pine Tree Hospice | $14,250 | To provide general operating support to continue their mission of assisting clients and families experiencing the challenges accompanying end of life and bereavement. | Dover-Foxcroft, ME |
| 2013 | Volunteers of America Northern New England | $20,000 | To support the Options At Home Program to expand affordable personal care services for low to moderate income seniors in Southern, Mid-Coast, and Central Maine. | Brunswick, ME |
| 2012 | East Parish Housing Ministry | $5,000 | To support general improvements to homes with substandard conditions. | Starks, ME |