CISV Maine 2024 Applications are closed at this time!
Please check back in the fall for 2025 program information.
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We welcome youth and adults to apply for our programs where global friendship, peace education, fun and youth leadership all come together for a life changing experience.
Don’t let the expense stop you from applying! Reach out to our application chair for scholarship information! Click on links in blue box below for more info about the specific programs and in section 3 further below, click on links to the application packets.
In order to be a candidate to participate in a program, applicants need to follow the steps outlined below. Review the guidelines below, and email Morgan Donovan Jones, Applications Chair, at maine-applicationchair@cisvusa.org, if you have any questions.
Application packet materials, deadlines, and program costs are in the cover letter of each application packet in section 2 below.
| Program Information | Ages |
| Village | 11 |
| Youth Meeting | 12-13 |
| Step Up | 15 |
| Fortnight | 16-17 |
| Junior Counselor | 16- 17 |
| Seminar | 16-17 |
| Leader | 21+ |
Application Guideline Steps
1. Become a member of CISV Maine (youth delegates only):
You must become a (family) member of CISV Maine in order to apply to be a youth delegate. Scholarships are available for membership–goto membership page for details. Program leaders–if you are chosen, CISV Maine will cover your membership fee.
2. Review Program Cover Letter & Submit Forms
The cover letter provides a step through guide to the application packet material.
Application Packets:
- Village Application Packet
- Youth Meeting Application Packet
- Step Up Delegate Application Packet
- Fortnight (National) Camp Application Packet
- Junior Counselor Individual Application Packet
- Seminar Camp Application Packet
- Leader Applicant Packet
Note: if you have questions about age, use the age calculator and/or contract our application chair at maine-applicationchair@cisvusa.org.
3. Attend Selection Day – Required
Selection Day includes a full day of activities, interviews, and programming. A mandatory parent meeting will be simultaneously to Selection Day. This typically happens in early February in Old Town, Maine.
Leadership Training Requirements, If Selected
| Program | Safeguarding Online Training | Local Leadership Training | National Leadership Training | Maine Mini Camp (MMC) |
| Fortnight | X | X | Encouraged | |
| Junior Counselor | X | X | X | X |
| Seminar | X | X | X (online) | Encouraged |
| Leader | X | X | X | X |
| Staff & Jr Staff | X | X | X | Encouraged |