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Welcome
to the Maine Community Action website. Maine Community
Action Association is a group of Community Action agencies
created by Maine people in the mid-1960's under the Economic
Opportunity Act of 1964 to provide local organization
to efforts which empower low income people to lift themselves
and their families out of poverty. |
The dawning of the 1960's
brought a new administration to Washington, and a new
awareneses of the nature and extent of poverty in our
"land of plenty".
The nature of the federal relationship with Community
Action has changed and evolved over the past 30 years,
but the basic purpose remains, "to assure an effective
focusing of local, state, and federal resources... enabling
disadvantaged citizens and their families to attain
skills, knowledge, motivation, and opportunities to
become self-sufficient". This purpose was made
part of Maine law in 1983 when Governor Joseph Brennan
signed the Maine Community Service Act. |
Poverty in Maine - 2008
is now available for download
Prepared
for the Maine Community Action Association
by Ann W.
Acheson, Ph.D.,
Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy,
University of Maine
Orono, Maine - February 2008
(View or download here in PDF format)
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| Did you know... |
| Homes for Low Income |
| 2,176 low income
families in Maine purchased their first home or increased
the value of their homes through a home improvement
loan or grant in 2004. |
| Heating Assistance |
| 48,174 households were served in the 2006 - 2007 heating season |
| Children & Youth Programs |
| 5,728 low income
children and youth participated in Community Action
programs that helped them meet goals of increased
communication skills, self-awareness, safety habits,
school performance and community participation. |
| Access to Health Services |
| 24,264 Community Action
customers seeking health services accessed the resources
they needed to obtain treatment or preventative services. |
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