***Public Health AmeriCorps - Youth Engagement - Maine

Goodwill NNE's Public Health AmeriCorps (PHA) program places members with community organizations in Maine to address CDC determined public health needs for the most underserved populations. Maine communities are home to pockets of refugees and immigrants, in cities and towns like Lewiston, Portland, and Cherryfield, ME. New American youth face significant barriers to success¿often influenced by trauma and chaos in their past, learning a new language, and adapting to a new culture¿and frequently enter the education system significantly behind their peers. Public Health Youth Development members strive to narrow this gap by increasing social and emotional skills and academic engagement among students, grades 4-12, who have been impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), including immigrant and refugee youth and members of the Wabanaki tribe (grades 4¿12). PHA members work with community partner agencies to develop and carry out localized, evidence-based interventions, directly serving youth while increa