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