Mainely Girls:

• Advertises and promotes events and opportunities for girls throughout Maine.
• Supports the work others are doing on behalf of girls.
• Acts as a point of connection and a referral service to available community and state resources for girls and women.
• Provides both phone and in person consultations around issues affecting girls.
• Advocates for girls and young women on the state level.
• Is working to establish a network for girls and women statewide. 
  

• A Girl's Point of View Book Club which offers girls at 55 Middle and High Schools in Maine the opportunity to read some of the best contemporary fiction that deals with issues many girls are facing today, and the books themselves provide a focus for discussing the challenges and concerns inherent in growing up female in the 21st century.  
  


• The Girl-to-Girl Mentoring Program which runs the first Thursday from October - June offering girls from Troy Howard Middle School a chance to get together with older trusted women in the community to try new things and have fun being girls. Activities have included belly dance, pumpkln carving, planting flowers and making spa products as well as discussions on friendship, loss, and boundaries. We've even taken the girls sledding, to performances by the Belfast Maskers, and to the the Bangor Children's Museum.  
  
  
• Mainely Girls puts on the annual Girls' Conference: One Incredible Day held in Camden every March. It has given a helping hand during the planning stages for similar conferences in Portland, Millinocket, Waterville and Old Town.
  
  
• In October of 2007 Mainely Girls, in collaboration with Medical Care Development, started the Eating Disorder Learning Collaborative: A three year project in which 30 teams across the state, each including a physician, therapist, and nutritionist, will be trained in the treatment and prevention of eating disorders.


• This summer Mainely Girls will be piloting The DIVA (Diabetic Initiative to Value Adolescents) Program. This program is for girls ages 10-18 with Type 1 diabetes and their parents. The DIVA Program will run as an 8 week educational support group in which these girls and their parents will learn how to better cope with, control, communicate about, and take responsibility for their disease while forming bonds with other girls with diabetes and their families. The programs will be run in Camden and Ellsworth. If you are interested please e-mail mainelygirls@gmail.com.


• Mainely Girls is also a part of the Mid-Coast Maine Trauma Informed Community a grassroots coalition of 15 local communityleaders committed to creating communities in which all adults in a child’s life are empowered to prevent or intervene early in childhood abuse and other traumatic childhood experiences.