When our colleague Laura Ornest asks, “what message you would send to legislators,” Kristel Thyrring, Director of Youth Mental Health Programs and Libby Wright, Coordinator at NAMI Maine respond, “Help us to better help you, Help us work upstream.” Kristel...
Category: Social and Emotional Health
“Nonprofit agencies represent the public’s conscience.” They are the ones who say to the public, “This is what needs to be done in the name of creating a better society for all of us.” These words from Allan Luks, former Director at Fordham University’s Center for...
Aaron Churchill talks with three of Maine’s extraordinary educators. The Threshold Program operates from the MEANS Academy serving some of Maine’s most vulnerable students. In this conversation we hear how a program started to address teen pregnancy expanded to...