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Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Maine continues its dedicated work with federal policy makers to prevent crime by ensuring kids get started on the right track in life. Our members have participated in many press conferences, editorial boards and media events across the state.

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Oxford Sheriff "Skip" Herrick (Right) reads to children at the Norway Children's Center Head Start program while Deputy Chief Sheriff Chris Wainwright looks on. The sheriff said that Head Start is one of the most effective ways of cutting later crime. View Release
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Bangor Daily News

Teen drug programs face cuts

By Eric Russell

BANGOR, ME, April 13, 2006 As the state works harder to curb drug and alcohol abuse among teenagers, looming federal budget cuts that would affect law enforcement and youth prevention programs threaten that progress, officials said Wednesday.

"We realize that this country is fighting a war, but there is a war going on here, too, a war for our children's future," Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe said at a news conference at the State House. "And we need the support of the federal government"...

[Knox, Waldo, Sagadahoc and Lincoln county District Attorney Geoffrey] Rushlau and Rowe joined Evert Fowle, district attorney for Somerset and Kennebec counties, and Mary Small, state director for Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, to present a report on teen drug and alcohol abuse in rural Maine...

The report detailed how the budget cuts would affect certain programs, claiming that 550 Maine children would be cut out of Head Start by 2011 and 1311 would suffer from cuts made to the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

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