The Maine Development Foundation’s Maine Downtown Center has been awarded $1.6 million to launch Healthy Maine Streets, a program to support health and wellness in Maine’s small communities.
Healthy Maine Streets will build on the Maine Downtown Center’s framework of Main Street Maine organizations and Maine Downtown Network programs to leverage community health improvements in a number of mostly rural towns, with a combined population of 180,000, according to a news release.
Those improvements include establishment of wellness councils “to addresses disparate health access and outcomes for employees of small businesses, which are the heart and soul of small town Main Streets,” the organization said.
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