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Understanding Why Kids Use Drugs and Alcohol
Today’s teens are growing up in an environment with pressures, stress and priorities vastly different from when we were their age. If you’re concerned that…
Attachment-Based Family Therapy Workshop
Please see the flyer below for a great training on working with kids and families. This is a very effective model to manage complex teen…
Important message from our School Resource Officer:
Dear Parents, My name is Chuck Reece, I am the School Resource Officer at Morse and work for the Bath Police Department in conjunction with…
Bath-area youth support group celebrates outreach, honors
BATH — It was a very good year for Jamie Dorr and the Midcoast Community Alliance. The network, which she founded a year ago to help troubled…
MCA Receives its Sixth Honor of 2017
Last week, Jamie Dorr, Board President for the Bath Youth Meetinghouse & Skatepark, accepted the 2017 Spirit of America Award presented by Sagadahoc County. Dorr…
Portland Press: Mainers We are Thankful For
Jamie Dorr She felt compelled to organize a grass-roots Bath initiative to prevent suicide.
Planting Hope: Midcoast Community Alliance brings Yellow Tulip Project to Morse
Jamie Dorr’s mission is to bring hope to the Midcoast community, and with the help of some students, she planted that intention Nov. 16 in…
Bath Middle Schoolers greeted with ‘You Matter’ message
Midcoast Community Alliance staged its second You Matter event at Bath Middle School the morning of Nov. 17, greeting students as they arrived with high…
MCA Speaks at Maine Public Health Conference
2017 MPHA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Midcoast Community Alliance: Addressing mental health using a public health model In July 2016, five local organizations came together to…
Bath honors people, groups, projects that make a difference.
BATH — Jamie Dorr has shown herself to be a true friend of the area’s youth, particularly those who could use a friend the most.
Her concern about the number of young people taking their own lives in the Mid-Coast area led her a year ago to create the Midcoast Community Alliance, which helps troubled youths and the adults around them access the knowledge and resources to prevent such tragedies from happening.
Jamie Dorr is Bath’s Citizen of the Year
BATH — Jamie Dorr, president of Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skate Park and founder of Midcoast Community Alliance was named Bath’s Citizen of the Year at the city’s annual Autumnfest and Citizen Involvement Day Oct. 7.