My Place Teen Center

My Place Teen Center

Where every kid feels safe, leaves with a full belly, and learns how to be a CEO.  

Opened in 1998, My Place Teen Center is a southern Maine oasis for at risk youth, ages 10-18, based in Westbrook with a second location to be opened in Biddeford, fall 2020. We are a year round, free, out of school time, evidence-based, positive youth development program specializing in cultivating grit and alleviating hunger and trauma. 

We are at the forefront of some of the most crucial issues of our time.

• We fight to keep kids safe from the devastation of the opioid epidemic.
• We combat poverty and food insecurity.
• We create real, authentic communities with kids from diverse backgrounds, teaching them how to be good citizens and good neighbors.
• We show teens from broken homes that there is a better way to live life – with accountability, personal responsibility, and self-care.
• We are not just raising kids, we are raising the next generation of adults, and they are headed your way. It matters who they are now, and whom they become as adults.
• We know adverse childhood experiences and the lifelong consequences of trauma can be counterbalanced with protective factors such as increasing cognitive capacity, healthy attachment of relationships, the ability to regulate emotions and behaviors, and creating safe environments. This is our calling card.