Downeast Community Partners, a service agency covering Hancock and Washington counties, will end its maternal and child health program by the end of September.

The closure of those services is due to the state of Maine declining to continue contracts for maternal and child health nursing services in all but Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford and York counties. Maternal and child health nursing has been funded at DCP through a state contract for the past eight years.

“We would all love to continue with the program and the services it provides to our community members, but the lack of available funding makes that impossible,” DCP’s Maternal & Child Health Nurse Coordinator Jen Winter said. “It may not be possible to provide families with the level of preventative education and s

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