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MYAN aims to connect you with a wide range of organizations and resources on these topics. If you do not find what you are looking for, please contact MYAN.

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."
~Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)  

Who's Who in Maine
Add Verb Productions
http://www.addverbproductions.com
Add Verb Productions Arts & Education awakens community-based action and understanding of social issues through theatre, creative expression and dialogue. Based in Portland, Maine, Add Verb works locally and nationally to incite dialogue and change around critical social issues. Across the nation, Add Verb's issue-based touring plays are instigating understanding and action around such complex problems as eating disorders, bullying and harassment, dating violence and sexual assault. The plays are followed up by a panel discussion with campus and local advocates, enabling communities to coordinate with their local resources to respond to the issues and take action. 
Add Verb believes youth want and need support, tools, guidance, and help in not just surviving, but thriving. Add Verb Productions Make It Stop! Youth Action Kit puts all the tools for presenting an entertaining and engaging issue-based play and spearheading discussion and community action right in their hands. Perfect for a wide range of audiences -- peer education, mentoring for younger students, and educating parents and adults about youth reality. For the actors as well as the audience, the play is a rehearsal for doing the right thing in life.
FMI, visit http://www.addverbproductions.com/action-kits.php. Online ordering coming soon! Click here to download the order form or contact Add Verb Productions to order by phone.
Boys to Men
http://www.boystomen.info/
The mission of Boys to Men is to help reduce interpersonal violence by offering programs that support the healthy development of adolescent boys, provide assistance and educational resources to boys and those who raise them, and ncrease community awareness about the specific needs of boys.

Center for Preventing Hate Violence (CPHV)
http://www.preventinghate.org
Dedicated to preventing harassment and violence.  As part of the mission, CPHV develop programs designed to help participants understand and address prejudice or bias, and in doing so prevent the potential escalation to more active forms of discrimination, harassment or even violence.

Hardy Girls Healthy Women
http://www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org/uglyducklings.php#MIFF
Hardy Girls Healthy Women and Greater Waterville C4CY (Communities for Children and Youth) have taken on a national campaign to end bias-based bullying and harassment of gay and lesbian youth. They staged the Maine premier of the award-winning play Ugly Ducklings and from the play, developed an educational documentary film and community action kit for national distribution.

  • Hardy Girls recently received a grant from the Bingham Program to give a FREE Ugly Ducklings Community Action Kit to every school district in Maine that requests one! For more information or for an application for a FREE Kit, visit the new Ugly Ducklings website: www.uglyducklings.org or contact Jessica jessica@hghw.org/207.861.8131. 

The Maine Women's Fund
http://www.mainewomensfund.org
The Maine Women's Fund is a community of individuals, businesses, and foundations that supports political, economic, and social equality for Maine women and girls. The fund works to end violence against women, help girls and women determine their own futures, promote economic security for women, and provide access to quality health information and care.  

Mainely Girls
http://www.mainelygirls.org
Mainely Girls works with rural communities to assist them in focusing on girls’ needs in a positive, preventative and proactive manner, and works on the state level to bring about positive change for girls.

Maine Women's Lobby & the Maine Women's Policy Center
http://www.mainewomen.org/
The Maine Women's Lobby & the Maine Women's Policy Center work in partnership to increase the economic, social, and political opportunities of women and girls in Maine through public policy and leadership development. 

Seeds of Peace
http://www.seedsofpeace.org/
Founded in 1993, Seeds of Peace is dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. Seeds of Peace International Camp is based in Maine. 

University of Maine Peace Studies Program
http://www.umaine.edu/peace
The University of Maine Peace Studies Program focuses on education for peace, justice, human rights, nonviolence, tolerance, global understanding, interdependence and mutuality, and environmental responsibility. Through its academic studies and various educational, research and outreach programs, Peace Studies infuses concerns for peace and the practice of transformative conflict resolution into the UMaine campus and community. The Peace Studies Program joins with the people of Maine in creating cultures of peace in our state, nation and world. 

The University of Maine Peace Studies Program focuses on education for peace, justice, human rights, nonviolence, tolerance, global understanding, interdependence and mutuality, and environmental responsibility. Through its academic studies and various educational, research and outreach programs, Peace Studies infuses concerns for peace and the practice of transformative conflict resolution into the UMaine campus and community. The Peace Studies Program joins with the people of Maine in creating cultures of peace in our state, nation and world. 

The University of Maine Peace Studies Program focuses on education for peace, justice, human rights, nonviolence, tolerance, global understanding, interdependence and mutuality, and environmental responsibility. Through its academic studies and various educational, research and outreach programs, Peace Studies infuses concerns for peace and the practice of transformative conflict resolution into the UMaine campus and community. The Peace Studies Program joins with the people of Maine in creating cultures of peace in our state, nation and world. 

USM--Maine Law & Civics Education
http://mainelaw.usm.maine.edu/mlce/bully.htm
Read about Maine's Bullying Prevention Education Program, which has been implemented in 29 schools across Maine since 2001. 

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