LEWISTON – New Beginnings Emergency Shelter for youth recently received a $3,000 grant from the Androscoggin County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation. The grant will be used for developing a parent education program and support groups in collaboration with community partners.

“This grant will allow us to better assist parents of teens who have come to the shelter. The youth we see are often involved in serious conflict with their families and with this grant we will assist those families with education regarding adolescence, the resolution of conflict and support from others who are in similar circumstances,” said Robert Rowe, executive director of New Beginnings.

For more than 25 years, New Beginnings Emergency Shelter has served runaway and homeless teens.

The shelter is part of a larger agency mission of “assisting adolescents who are in crisis due to unstable and/or conflictive living situations to grow socially and emotionally so they can build self-respect and lead productive lives.”

For more information, visit the foundation Web site at www.mainecf.org or call 1-877-700-6800 or New Beginnings at www.newbeginmaine.org or call 795-4077.