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BIDDEFORD, Maine

UNE's Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition announces Powerful Youth Mini-Grant Awardees

UNE's Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition (CHCC) is excited to announce the awardees of its 2009-2010 Powerful Youth Mini-Grants. The organizations receiving the awards are:

  • Community Bike Center, Biddeford
  • Middle School of the Kennebunks 
  • Mildred L. Day School, Arundel 
  • The New School, Kennebunk 
  • Thornton Academy Middle School, Saco

The funds support healthy living projects that are focused on increasing youth involvement in accomplishing social, policy, and environmental change to improve youth health.  Projects will be funded from November 2009 through May 2010.

"We are very excited about these five projects," stated CHCC Director Megan Rochelo.  "The Powerful Youth Mini-Grant program enables us to provide five unique organizations additional  funds to complement the great work they do with youth in promoting healthier lifestyles and communities."

Coastal Healthy Communities Coalition is a community-based health promotion coalition working to promote tobacco prevention/cessation, substance abuse prevention, physical activity and nutrition in both the community and schools. The coalition is a program of the University of New England's College of Osteopathic Medicine. CHCC is a Healthy Maine Partnership.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.