OUR FIVE IMPACT AREAS
Thriving Families / Successful Children-Success By 6:
Supporting families and ensuring children are ready to succeed when they enter school, as well as beyond.
* 16% of children in Androscoggin County live in poverty.
A Dynamic Community:
Promoting, supporting, enhancing independence and self-sufficiency
* 49% of local residents cannot read higher than a sixth grade level.
Meeting Basic Needs:
Ensuring individuals and families have food, shelter, clothing and access to services that promote physical and mental well-being.
* 60 people in our community are homeless on any given night.
Life-Long Learning:
Promoting opportunities for job training, education, collaboration and volunteerism.
* In 2004, 200 high school students in our county dropped out of school.
Personal and Community Safety:
Advocating that individuals and families are safe and protected at all times
* Over 3,000 crimes were committed in Androscoggin County last year.
United Way Partner Agencies
- Abused Women's Advocacy Project
- Advocates For Children
- United Valley American Red Cross
- Androscoggin Children's Advocacy Center (182 Webster Street, Lewiston, 784-0436)
- Androscoggin Head Start & Child Care
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Auburn-Lewiston
- Boys & Girls Clubs
- Catholic Charities of Maine
- Catholic Charities Maine St. Francis Recovery Center
- Catholic Charities Maine SEARCH
- Central/Western Maine Workforce Investment Board
- Community Dental
- Child Health Center
- Common Ties Mental Health Coalition
- Community Concepts, Inc.
- Legal Services for the Elderly
- Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin
- New Beginnings Inc. (436 Main St. Lewiston, 795-4077)
- Pathways (PO Box 1267, Lewiston, 795-4085)
- Rural Community Action Ministry (81 Church Hill Rd. Leeds, ME 04263)
- Sandcastle Preschool Program (144 Howe St, Lewiston,
782-2150)
- Salvation Army
- SeniorsPlus
- Sexual Assault Crisis Center
- St. Martin de Porres Residence (PO Box 7227, Lewiston,
786-4690)
- Tri-County Mental Health Services
- Trinity Jubilee Center (247 Bates St, Lewiston, 782-5700)
- United Somali Women of Maine
- Volunteers of America NNE
- Western Maine Community Action
- YMCA
- YWCA of Central Maine