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Maine Turning Point Project

Purpose/Goals: 

This collaborative project focuses on the enhancement of Maine’s public health infrastructure through a coordinated public health approach.  Current Turning Point efforts include participation in the Department of Human Services and Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services reorganization and the creation of the Dirigo Health insurance plan. Turning Point also funds the Maine Network of Healthy Communities, which continues its organizational and mentoring initiatives. MCPH will in the coming months award a new round of mini-grants, which will fund best practices-based prevention and health promotion at the community level.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Contact:

Karen O'Rourke, MPH, Interim Turning Point Project Director/Education and Training Coordinator, MCPH

(207) 629-9272 Ext. 203

Email

 
Products/Related Documents:

  • Turning Point Update

    • Journal of Public Health Management and Practice article, by former MCPH President Paul Campbell and Project Director Ann Conway, on the Maine Turning Point Project.  The issue concentrates on the Turning Point grants awarded to over twenty states in an effort to enhance public health systems. (PDF 90 kb)

       

  • Mini-Grant Recipients (PDF 22 kb)

    • List of mini-grant recipients who received funds to support best-practices.
       

  • Health in Maine (PDF 439 kb)

    • A white paper highlighting the Turning Point recommendations .
       

  • Maine Turning Point Planning Document (PDF 1734 kb)

    • A report compiled in 2003 detailing the complete Turning Point recommendations for enhancing Maine’s public health infrastructure.
Relevant Links: National Turning Point Office

Maine Network of Health Communities

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