Maine Youth Action Network

The Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN) trains, supports, connects and advocates for youth organized to effect positive change through school and community-based peer programs.

Description:
The Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN) is a statewide Network of support for youth and adults who are striving to effect positive change. We strongly believe in the power of youth and adult partnerships, and the capacity we all have to change the world we live in.

What makes the Network powerful is the community of individual members with their unique skills, ideas and experiences. MYAN acts as a tool for connecting people and programs throughout Maine so that we are each part of something larger than ourselves. Together we can change our state, and the world, for the better.

History:
MYAN is an initiative of the Youth Resiliency Project at the People’s Regional Opportunity Program (PROP) and was initiated in 2001. MYAN was born out of the Statewide Network of Peer Programs (SNPP), a program that had been in existence for only a few years offering limited trainings and technical support to youth groups in Maine and planning and hosting the Peer Leadership Conference. In 2001 MYAN renamed SNPP the Maine Youth Action Network to more accurately reflect our belief that the strength of the youth groups working in Maine to create change was not focused on the information, resources or training that one staff person could offer them, but instead the strength was in the experiences, information and resources within the diverse groups all across the state. Currently, MYAN has youth volunteer opportunities, youth planning teams for our events, high school internships and college age positions and we continue to challenge ourselves to find additional ways to elevate youth voice at MYAN and in the world.

Contact person: Stephen Potts, Americorps*VISTA, (phone), (email)

Main office number: (207) 864-0060
Office fax number: (207) 553-5927

Address:

510 Cumberland Ave Portland, ME 04101 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.myan.org

Miscellaneous Information

This agency has United Way funded programs
	No
The agency places volunteers in these categories:
	Adults

Last updated on August 11, 2009