FARMINGTON – A senior at the University of Maine at Farmington has updated a resource guide to help unemployed people find help in Western Maine.

Twenty-three-year old Kate Liversidge of Farmington will complete an internship at the United Way of the Tri-Valley Area on Friday.

During that time she took on the project to update an older version of “A Community Resource Guide For the Unemployed” and added new resources once it was announced that Wausau Paper in Jay was shutting down a paper machine by the end of the year. That will put about 150 workers out of jobs.

“We were planning to update some of the information but not redo the majority of the book,” she said. “When I first started out at United Way, I didn’t know about half the services available in greater Franklin and Oxford counties. I was trying to get as much I could into it to help mill workers and others who are unemployed.”

The guide has listings for both counties and Livermore and Livermore Falls.

It has been distributed to some local libraries and town offices and is available at the United Way office on Broadway in Farmington. The guide was also distributed to affected workers at Wausau’s Otis Mill during the state’s Department of Labor sessions with them.

Liversidge, who is majoring in rehabilitation services and is president of the UMF Student Senate, received a round of applause during the Wausau Paper Community Response Team meeting Wednesday for her work.

She had help updating the guide, she said, which was made possible by the local United Way and Central/Western Maine Workforce Investment Board.