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Mentoring Service Providers
Big Brothers Big Sisters | Bowdoin College | Brunswick High School Connections
Riverview Foundation | Sweetser | Volunteers of America
Coalition Partners
Communities for Children and Youth | Energy East | Maine Mentoring Partnership
M.S.A.D #75 | United Way of Midcoast Maine
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick
Connie Hartley
85 Maine Street
Brunswick, ME 04011
Tel: 729-7736
www.bbbsbathbrun.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bath/Brunswick is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to supporting stable, enriching friendships between children and adult mentors. We serve children between the ages of six and thirteen from 15 communities in the southern midcoast region, including Topsham, Brunswick, and Bath. The mission of our organization is to help children get the adult support they need to live happier, more productive lives.
We offer two main programs: community-based mentoring and school-based mentoring. The community program matches carefully screened adult volunteers with children for a friendship of at least one year. These pairs spend 12 hours per month together enjoying activities they have in common. Our school-based program matches adults with children in local elementary and middle school. These matches meet once a week for an hour throughout the school year.
Bowdoin College Bridge to Kids Mentoring Programs
Initiative
Bobby Guerette
Community Service Resource Center
4690 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 798-4236
Bowdoin mentoring program web site
The Bowdoin mentoring initiative strives to provide local children and youth with well trained, positive college student role models. All mentors attend an initial training and have the option to attend refresher trainings throughout the year. Each program involves a one-on-one match between a child and college student. Mentors find a convenient time in their schedule to meet with their mentee, on average, once a week, for an hour and are asked to commit an entire academic year to the program. Currently the Bowdoin initiative includes:
Bears and Cubs
A mentoring program for children waiting for a Big Brother or Big Sister.
Bowdoin Central School Mentoring
A mentoring program for elementary students at Bowdoin Central School.
Falcon Friends
Bowdoinham Community School mentoring program.
Harpswell Islands Mentoring
A mentoring program for students at Harpswell Islands Elementary School.
Mt. Ararat Middle and High School Mentoring Program
Bowdoin students mentoring at both the middle and high schools for SAD #75
SmART
A mentoring program utilizing art projects to mentor children at West
Harpswell Elementary.
Brunswick High School Connections
Christina Ring
Guidance Counselor
Brunswick High School
116 Maquoit Road
Brunswick, ME 04011
Tel: (207) 319-1910
Connections' mission is to provide volunteer mentors to all students who need the support of a caring adult to realize their full potential. Connections recruits, screens, and trains mentors who are then matched to a student based on gender and interests. The school, with the help of Connections, finds places for the students and mentors to meet during school, on school grounds, during one of the student's study hall once a week. Connections is not a tutoring or counseling program, our goal is to simply provide students with an adult to let them know that they matter.
The secret is simple: an adult has taken the time to show they care.
Communities for Children and Youth
Susan Savell
170 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0170
Tel: 207-287-4377
Fax: 207 287-4375 or 287-7233
www.communitiesforchildren.org
Communities for Children and Youth is a statewide initiative of the Maine Children's Cabinet designed to create a partnership between state government and local communities as they work to promote positive child and youth development. The goals of the initiative are to measurably improve the well-being of children in every Maine community, and increase educational attainment and achievement levels of all Maine children. Communities for Children and Youth invites all Maine communities to become Partner Communities. Since 1997, 71 communities have joined the network, representing more than 325 municipalities and 70% of the state's population.
Energy East
Thorn Dickinson
www.energyeast.com
Maine Mentoring Partnership
Debbie Bechard
337 Maine Ave.
Farmingdale, ME 04344
1-888-387-8755
www.MaineMentoring.org
Maine Mentoring Partnership, Inc. (MMP) established in 2001 is a statewide public-private partnership of mentoring program providers, government, funders and supporters. It is an initiative of Maine Children's Cabinet. Its work reflects widespread belief among stakeholders that assuring children and youth access to a caring adult is a top priority, and that mentoring is a highly effective but under-utilized strategy for doing this in Maine.
Our mission is to promote, advocate, foster and support child and youth mentoring programs throughout Maine with the goal of providing appropriately recruited, screened, trained and supported mentors for 35,000 Maine children and youth.
Maine School Administrative District #75
50 Republic Ave
Topsham, ME 04086
Tel: (207) 729-9961
Fax: (207) 725-9354
www.link75.org
Maine school district serving the Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Harpswell, and Topsham communities.
Riverview Foundation
Marty Hiat
P.O. Box 310
Topsham, Me 04086
Tel: 729-7399 Ext. 308
www.riverviewfoundation.com
Prevention-based Leadership Development After-school Program for Middle School Youth -- Sagadahoc County. Tuition funded by State of Maine Tobacco Free Fund. Tuition based Classes in Universal Movement Martial Arts and Wilderness Education for Children and Teens. Specially designed alternative education programs, safety and awareness seminars.
Sweetser
Linda Danielson
Manager of Volunteer Services
329 Bath Road
Brunswick, ME 04011
Tel: (207) 373-3006
www.sweetser.org
A Sweetser mentor, matched with one child, commits to regular visits (1-2 hours per week or every other week) and developing a positive, supportive relationship. A mentor acts as a role model and helps the child to become more involved in the community. Having someone special who cares can really motivate a child toward positive change. Serving Maine from Belfast to Kittery and beyond!
Volunteers of America NNE
Mentoring Children of Prisoners
Heather Douglas
14 Maine St., Suite 205
Brunswick, ME 04011
Tel: 373-1140
www.voa-nne.org
Program developed to help children of incarcerated parents make a successful transition from childhood to adolescence. The primary objectives are to increase the child's capacity for resiliency and to create a flexible mentoring model that supports the mentor and adapts to child-family needs and location. The program serves children of prisoners ages 8 to 15 in eight countries from Northern Cumberland to Washington County.
United Way of Midcoast Maine
Yvonne Mickles
34 Wing Farm Parkway
Bath, Maine 04530-1515
(207) 443-9752
(207) 443-9794 FAX
www.uwmcm.org
United Way of Mid Coast Maine works to build a stronger, healthier, more compassionate community by supporting the Merrymeeting Bay Mentoring Coalition as well as:
- Bringing people from across the community together to work toward developing solutions in the key areas of: Meeting Basic Needs/Safety Net, A Safe and Healthy Community, Success By 6: Early Childhood, and Youth and Lifelong Learning. One of the Community Goals for Youth and Lifelong Learning is: “Youth at risk have effective programs, including mentoring, to help them become responsible members of the community.”
- Helping people and families find resources through 2-1-1 Maine. United Way of Mid Coast Maine, in partnership with the other nine Maine United Ways, Ingraham and the State of Maine, is launching 2-1-1 Maine, a statewide free and confidential information and referral service. Beginning in July 2006, anyone can call 2-1-1 to be connected with a knowledgeable and caring information and referral specialist – 24 hours each day, 365 days a hear. The 2-1-1 database is available at www.211Maine.org
- Helping people search for a volunteer opportunity that is just right for them through the new statewide website www.VolunteerMaine.org This new service lets agencies, including those seeking mentors, to list their specific needs for volunteers on this website.
