Coaching Services are available to individuals and families. Our coaches work with clients on overcoming challenges and identify pathways to achieving their goals. Coaches work alongside individuals and families offering guidance and support along the way.
Coaches work closely with unemployed or underemployed adults or dislocated workers seeking employment and/or training through several workforce programs.
We can assist customers in overcoming barriers through a wide variety of support services:
Community Cupboards are small self-serve free pantries that help to fill a gap. The concept is a simple one of take what you need and leave what you can, but these cupboards help those who are facing food insecurity.
Personal career counselors offer guidance, connections, and support in areas such as:
There are also financial supports available with:
Education and occupational trainings
Avec administers matched savings accounts for low-income families for post-secondary education, small business development, home purchase/repair, vehicle purchase/repair or emergency savings. This is a great resource to help individuals and families plan for the future.
Individualized and group trainings to help individuals and families better understand their finances. Our team empowers clients to better understand how to make sound financial decisions, allowing them to provide for themselves and their families. Activities include budgeting, understanding credit scores, and paying off debt.
Coaches work with families and individuals before, during and after emergencies arise to address needs, where other resources are unavailable. They then assist those households in preventing future crises.
Maine’s three local workforce boards, in partnership with their respective service providers, have collaborated to provide free, virtual employment workshops and info sessions to help individuals connect to resources, build job skills, and find and maintain employment.
The Hope and Prosperity Resource Center is a Place with a Purpose. It is a warm, safe, and inviting space to work on goals. Coaches work with individuals and families interested in creating a plan that is customized to their needs. Access to all programs is available to clients working with Coaches including but not limited to housing assistance, health and wellness initiatives, budgeting, education, and employment counseling.
The Hope and Prosperity Resource Center is located at 1 Edgemont Drive in Presque Isle, Maine.
The center is open non-holiday weekdays from 8 am to 4:30 pm.
For more information or to speak to a coach call 207-764-3721 ext. 5.
Workforce Innovation and Opportunities Act youth program serves youth 16-24 who face barriers to education, training, and employment to assist with career exploration, educational opportunities and work experience. The program expands job training and workforce activities for youth, including soft-skill development, career exploration, job readiness and certification and year-round job opportunities.
Avec Coaches work with local employers who are looking to attract and retain more skilled workers can access technical and funding assistance to support on-the-job trainings and formal apprenticeships.
Through the Work Experience program (WE), Avec provides individuals with the opportunity to gain entry-level experience in the workforce. WE assists job seekers by providing them paid work experience which allows them to acquire specific skills and employment competencies and helps local employers by filling their labor needs.
On-the-job training (OJT) is a way of providing individualized occupational skills training to individuals. OJT assists businesses to provide training for in demand occupations that meet the needs of the employer. This is a hire-first program in which the employer enters into an agreement to hire, train, and retain the individual upon successful completion of the training program.
For decades we were ACAP, Aroostook County Action Program. The name said where we worked and what we did, and for a long time it fit. Just over a year ago, things changed. When longtime services in Washington and Hancock counties were at risk we partnered so that families there wouldn’t be left without help, and our reach grew. A name rooted in one county could no longer hold all the places we now call home.