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Lifespan Opportunities in Washington and Hancock Counties

Breakthrough Youth

Introduction

Breakthrough Youth empowers 10- to 24-year-olds in Hancock and Washington counties to make informed decisions that support them in reaching their goals and maintaining their health and well-being for a lifetime.

Program goals include: 

  • Promoting participants' financial literacy
  • Supporting participants’ social-emotional learning and positive development
  • Promoting self-confidence and healthy relationships, including safe sex practices
  • Planning for career next steps

Breakthrough Youth accomplishes these goals as participants complete the following:

Money Smart, designed by the FDIC, helps participants enhance their financial skills and create positive banking relationships. 

Soft Skills to Pay the Bills, developed at the U.S. Department of Labor, helps participants develop the essential interpersonal skills for successful employment, work toward future career goals, and establish healthy money management goals.

Lions Quest, an evidence-based social-emotional learning program, fosters positive development through collaboration among home, school, and community.

Boys to Men, developed in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice, is a gender-based violence prevention program that promotes gender equality and includes interactive learning opportunities. 

Making Proud Choices aims to build participants’ confidence in their identity, capacity for consent, ability to participate in healthy relationships, and ability to make healthy sexual choices, especially related to safe sex practices that will reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

For more information or to make a referral, call or email Lacey Arsenault, Breakthrough Youth Navigator.

Phone: (207) 460-7626

Email:  lacey.arsenault@dcpcap.org

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DCP Offices

Toll-Free: 800-834-4378

Bucksport Road Office

248 Bucksport Road, Ellsworth, ME 04605
207-664-2424 | Email

Avery Lane Office

18 Avery Lane, PO Box 648 , Ellsworth, ME 04605
207-664-2424 | Email

Machias Office

7 VIP Drive, Machias, ME 04654
207-259-5015 | Email

Calais Office

11 Church Street, Calais, ME 04619
207-664-2424 | Email

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