News Center Maine features Family Futures Downeast
News Center Maine featured Family Futures Downeast, a collaboration among five nonprofit and public organizations, and the University of Maine at Machias and Washington Community College that provides transportation, peer support, and academic counseling to help parents stay in school. Family Futures Downeast is not only breaking down economic barriers to a college degree, it also is helping kids thrive alongside their parents. While parents are in night classes, their children ages 8 and younger are enrolled in free child care centers at UMaine Machias and Washington Community College.