Finding Our Voices receives Camden National Bank funding to expand youth education in Maine

Discovering Our Voices has acquired an $8,000 grant from Camden Nationwide Financial institution for its Youth Wholesome-Relationship marketing campaign, bringing the financial institution’s complete funding of the grassroots, survivor-powered nonprofit within the three years of its existence to $38,000. 
 
This grant will broaden the group’s groundbreaking work educating younger individuals throughout Maine on what’s wholesome and what’s not wholesome in intimate associate and household relationships. The brand new 12 months will see Ok-12 artwork and poetry Love/not Love workshops/reveals in varied public libraries throughout the state, and posters launching in excessive faculties, schools and universities that characteristic alarming first-hand experiences of courting abuse by Maine ladies and boys aged 13 to 21.  
 
“Camden Nationwide Financial institution received us off the bottom three years in the past with our very first company donation,” mentioned Patrisha McLean, founder/president of Discovering Our Voices, in a information launch. “And each step of the best way since then they’ve been solidly by our aspect, serving to us sustain with the momentum of our motion and getting and holding increasingly more Maine ladies and youngsters protected together with with the outreach of our posters within the home windows and worker break rooms of all their branches.  
 
“We’re significantly excited,” continued Patrisha, “in regards to the Financial institution’s lead of our youth initiative. “Habits kind early, social media is making it even scarier for teenagers concerned with a controlling associate, and it’s a lot simpler to acknowledge and keep away from harmful relationships when younger than attempt to extricate as soon as you might be trapped and will have youngsters collectively.”  
 
Renee Smyth, the financial institution’s government Vice President, mentioned: “We’re proud to be the lead sponsor for Discovering Our Voices’ growth of their youth schooling marketing campaign. We strongly consider in FOV’s grassroots efforts to interrupt the silence, stigma and intergenerational cycle of home abuse. The Financial institution has a protracted historical past of offering monetary assist to organizations akin to this within the communities by which we reside and markets we serve, and admire the distinctive work they do.”
 
The trademark outreach of Discovering Our Voices is daring posters and bookmarks that includes the images and tales of 45 Maine home abuse survivors aged 18 to 81, together with college students, an incarcerated girl, and Governor Janet T. Mills. The group additionally gives sister assist that features Get Out Keep Out funding of short-term motel stays, authorized consultations, and automotive repairs, by referrals from police departments, district lawyer’s workplaces, homeless shelters, social service companies, and Human Sources departments. For extra data go to FindingOurVoices.web or contact Patrisha immediately at hi there@findingourvoices.web.