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Goodwill puts focus on jobs at Maine juvenile detention center
By .pressherald.com - Noel K. Gallagher
Published: 07/27/2013

A new job training program at southern Maine's juvenile detention center, run by Goodwill Industries, will focus on forming and maintaining ties to area businesses to give juvenile offenders real world work experience before they are released, officials say.

In this 2002 file photo, the Long Creek Youth Development Center with the old facility in the background. A new job training program at southern Maine's juvenile detention center, run by Goodwill Industries, will focus on forming and maintaining ties to area businesses to give juvenile offenders real world work experience before they are released, officials say.

Goodwill's program starts Monday at Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, replacing a job training program that Jobs for Maine Graduates, an Augusta nonprofit, operated out of the facility for the last 12 years. "Goodwill Youth Services has worked with at-risk youth extensively," said program manager Jaime Grover.

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