Jan 8, 2021How Are the Children? CampaignHealthy Peninsula is excited to announce our community’s new early childhood community campaign called “How are the Children?” To learn...
Jun 10, 2020Stories from the Front-line: How COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders Affect Young Children, Their Parents, “Tears ran down my face as I wrote a letter to parents, saying that after only four months of being open, I felt we should close our...
Apr 11, 2020COVID-19 Volunteer SupportHealthy Peninsula and our community partners are offering free, volunteer services to help vulnerable community members with grocery...
Apr 11, 2020Advance Directives and COVID-19The Conversation Project offers some things to think about if you were to become seriously ill with COVID-19. Please click here to see...
Apr 1, 2020Life in the Time of Corona—Community, Creativity, and CareI am a news junkie, as well as a health provider, and I can spend hours each day being saturated with the latest news and publicity about...
Mar 31, 2020Local and Regional COVID-19 Resources Available on Our WebsiteHealthy Peninsula, the region’s community health coordination organization is working closely with our community partners to avoid...
Oct 23, 2019Healthy Families Announces Our Family Resource CenterThanks to generous grant funding from the Maine Community Foundation, Healthy Peninsula is proud to announce that we are launching a...
Sep 24, 2019Empty Bowl Supper Helps Fill the Magic Food BusBrooksville Elementary School is hosting an Empty Bowl community supper on Thursday October 17, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. Families and friends are...
Aug 12, 2019Healthy Families Receives Grant from Maine Community FoundationHealthy Peninsula has received a $40,000 grant from the Early Childhood Community Planning Grants Fund of the Maine Community Foundation...
May 15, 2019News for Families with Young ChildrenHealthy Peninsula’s Early Learning will now be publishing monthly newsletters with upcoming events, activities and resources for families...
Oct 2, 2018Possibilities for Early Head Start FundingOn Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Melissa Mattes, director of Early Childhood Programs at Downeast Community Partners, will...
Aug 30, 2018Area schools use local communities to educateby Monique Labbe When students on the Blue Hill Peninsula start school this year, they will have unique opportunities to have educational...
Jun 12, 2018MaineCF Awards Community Grants for Early Childhood PlanningThe Maine Community Foundation has awarded a total of $148,277 to six nonprofit organizations chosen as first recipients of its Early...
Feb 19, 2018Healthy Peninsula Receives Maine Health Access Foundation GrantHealthy Peninsula has received a $30,000, one-year planning grant from the Maine Health Access Foundation, one of four such grant...
Feb 16, 2018Advance Care Planning Workshop Coming to Deer IsleA free, two-part workshop will be offered at the Chase Emerson Memorial Library on March 4 and 11, for those interested in exploring...
Feb 6, 2018Healthy Peninsula Welcomes New Project CoordinatorHealthy Peninsula is delighted to announce that Becky Pease has joined our family as the Choices That Matter Coordinator. She brings to...