Many of them lack a stable, supportive family, and end up creating their own ‘family’ on the street with other homeless youths.
Homeless in Maine
Posted inMaine, News
Search the statewide database of school districts reporting homeless youths
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act defines homeless youths as ‘individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence.’
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Auburn official says city has ‘exhausted all possibilities’ to host state-funded overnight warming shelter
The city was in negotiations to receive state funding for a temporary overnight warming shelter but could not confirm a location to host it.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
2023: Androscoggin County funds emergency warming shelter in Lewiston
Auburn and Lewiston pursuing options to help unhoused population during winter months, including a program at Calvary United Methodist Church on Sabattus Street.
Posted inMaine, News
MaineHousing will spend $21 million on winter, long-term shelter for Maine homeless
The state housing authority has issued RFPs to provide overnight warming shelters this winter, and other long-term solutions for next winter and beyond.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Homeless but working: ‘That can be any person’
Unforeseen circumstances, and suddenly a Lewiston couple find themselves without a secure place for themselves and their child.
Posted inColumns, Maine
Michael G. Seamans: Life on Waterville island featured hard living, and comfort to those in need
Over the course of several months, Morning Sentinel photographer Michael G. Seamans captured images of people living at a homeless encampment along the Kennebec River, and came to learn his assumptions about them were wrong.
Posted inMaine
Homeless in Maine: Struggling to survive even with a paying job
Those who interact most closely with the homeless say it’s a misconception that they don’t want to work or try to help themselves.
Posted inMaine
Photos: Homeless people work jobs, return home to tents pitched by river
Morning Sentinel photographer Michael G. Seamans captured the photographic journey of homeless people living at an encampment in Waterville, some of whom also work jobs, over the past several months. All photos are by Seamans.
Posted inThe Bethel Citizen
Faith drives Mollyockett owner to provide ‘home’ to those in need
WOODSTOCK — Tim Buck and his wife Fran, own the Mollyockett Motel on Route 26. Some of the people who stay at the motel have been displaced from Rumford and other area towns and cities. Buck gives people in need the sanctuary they need because his faith compels him to help those he can. Motel […]