Mainely Girls has...
- Advertised and promoted events and opportunities for girls throughout Maine.
- Supported the work others are doing on behalf of girls.
- Acted as a point of connection and a referral service to available community and state resources for girls and women.
- Provided both phone and in-person consultations around issues affecting girls.
- Advocated for girls and young women on the state level.
- Worked to establish a network for girls and women statewide.
Since 1996, Mainely
Girls has administered numberous programs across the state to make good things happen for
girls. Our current programs include The Eating Disorder Learning Collaborative and A Girl's Point of View Book Club.
Past programs have included:
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The Girl-to-Girl Mentoring Program. Girl to Girl offers girls from Troy Howard Middle School a chance to get together with older trusted women in the community to try new things and have fun being girls. Activities have included belly dance, pumpkln carving, planting flowers and making spa products as well as discussions on friendship, loss, and boundaries. We've even taken the girls sledding, to performances by the Belfast Maskers, and to the the Bangor Children's Museum.
- The annual
Girls' Conference: One Incredible Day. Every spring for seventeen years, Mainely Girls sponsored the midcoast each spring. It has given a helping hand during
the planning stages for similar conferences in Portland, Millinocket, Waterville
and Old Town.
- The DIVA (Diabetic Initiative to Value Adolescents) Program. This program, piloted in 2008, was for girls ages 10-18 with Type 1 diabetes and their parents. The DIVA Program ran as an 8 week educational support group in which these girls and their parents learned how to better cope with, control, communicate about, and take responsibility for their disease while forming bonds with other girls with diabetes and their families. The programs will be run in Camden and Ellsworth. The program is not currently being offered due to lack of funding.
- The Mid-Coast Maine Trauma Informed Community. Mainely Girls was part of this grassroots coalition of 15 local communityleaders committed to creating communities in which all adults in a child’s life are empowered to prevent or intervene early in childhood abuse and other traumatic childhood experiences.
For more information about us, head to our History page.