Tools for Change Registration
2025-04-17 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | University of Maine, Machias, 116 O'Brien Ave, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The Community Caring Collaborative invites you to a new training on April 17th, Tools for Change: Understanding Substance Use and Supporting Safer Choices, presented by Abby Frutchey, LMSW, LADC, CCS. The practice of harm reduction has evolved significantly, offering a comprehensive approach to creating safer outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. Join us for a 3 hour in-person, partner-wide training that will examine the core principles of harm reduction through interactive methods, including case studies, discussions, and practical applications. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding harm reduction as a vital component of substance use recovery interventions, highlighting how these practices meet people where they are while fostering pathways to improved health and well-being. Participants will also explore foundational substance use and recovery knowledge, including recognizing multiple recovery pathways, reducing stigma through person-first language, and promoting dignity in their work. Participants will gain strategies and tools to effectively integrate these practices into their work with students, families, and community members affected by alcohol and substance use disorders. Download a flyer to share.
This training will be held in Science 102 at the University of Maine Machias, from 9 am to 12 Noon. Please arrive early for some delicious morning refreshments and to get comfortably settled. Participants will receive a certificate for three contact hours upon completion of the digital post-training evaluation. Registration for this training is closed. Contact Christy at claurel@cccmaine.org if you would like to attend.

Guiding with Purpose
2025-10-17 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
The CCC is excited to be bringing a new training: Guiding with Purpose: Strengthening Skills for Collaborative Dialogue, presented by Abby Frutchey, LMSW, LADC, CCS. This 3-hour virtual training, developed for FFD but open to all CCC partners, is designed to enhance participants’ ability to lead meaningful, person-centered conversations that foster connection, motivation, and growth. Emphasis is placed on the practice of deep listening and the use of collaborative strategies to create an empowering environment that supports sustainable change.
Through interactive exercises and “real-play” practice, participants will refine foundational skills such as open-ended questioning, affirmations, reflections, and summarization. These techniques strengthen rapport, encourage personal autonomy, and build confidence in facilitating collaborative dialogue. Because the training is highly interactive and skill-based, full participation and attendance for the entire session is requested. Participants will receive a certificate for three contact hours.
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Poverty in Washington County - 2025
2025-11-21 09:00 - 12:00 | University of Maine, Machias, 116 O'Brien Ave, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC is excited to announce a new training this November, Poverty in Washington County: emerging concerns and responses, Friday, November 21st, 9 am — 12 Noon at the University of Maine, Machias in Science 102. Presented by CCC Director Charley Martin-Berry with guest speaker Ana Hicks, Policy Director in the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, this training will examine changes in public benefits that will impact people already in poverty. We will also discuss what works and look at poverty bias and worthiness, asking where these assumptions and beliefs come from and what are barriers to accessing supports. This free, informative and timely educational opportunity is open to all CCC partners. Contact Hour Certificate available. Register by November 14th using the form below.

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Frontline Worker Forum - registration
2026-02-27 10:00 - 14:00 | St. Anne’s Parish Hall, Calais, 29 Church Street, Calais, ME, 04619, United States
Please join the CCC for our Frontline Worker Forum: Strategies for support during a rapidly changing landscape, facilitated by Julie Redding, LCPC, from 10 am — 2 pm in St. Anne’s Parish Hall, Calais.
Families and individuals are experiencing challenges unlike anything else in recent times. However, the frontline staff who support them face unparalleled challenges across resource sectors with rapidly changing information, access and reliability in a previously steady public benefits landscape, and how these impact their professional self-worth. Together, we’ll bring together data and voices from varying roles to understand the impacts these stressors have on the workforce and programs they make up and wisdom from the fields of stress and relational studies that can provide insight into strategies to support them.
Designed for Family Futures Downeast partners, this learning event is open to all CCC partner staff. Participants will receive a certificate for 3.5 contact hours. Please register by Monday, February 23rd.

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ALICE Summit Registration
2026-06-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Machias Savings Bank Training Center, 1 Colonial Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
Heart of Maine United Way is partnering with the Community Caring Collaborative for a half-day ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Summit focused on understanding and addressing the challenges facing working families in Washington County. The day will include a presentation of the latest ALICE data, a panel discussion featuring local perspectives, and facilitated table conversations designed to share insights and identify opportunities. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of the barriers that families and businesses in our community face and a stronger connection to others working on creative and effective solutions.
Presenters will include Matt Donahue, President & CEO of Heart of Maine United Way, and panelists Tawney Desjardins, WIC director for Washington and Hancock Counties; Denise Cilley, Associate Director for Sunrise County Economic Council; Dante Zanoni, Program Manager for The Connection Initiative; and Joanna Cushing, Director of Lending Sales at Downeast Credit Union.
Please join us at the Edward L Hennessy, Jr, Training Center at 1 Colonial Way, Machias, from 9 am to 12 Noon to learn more and share your thoughts. Emily Fitzsimmons from the French Cellar will provide refreshments. Save your seat by filling in and submitting the form below by June 5th.

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