C4 Meeting
2025-06-06 08:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | ME
Hybrid meeting of the CCC Council. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting.

What Brain Science and Toxic Stress Teach us - Registration
2025-06-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Cobscook Institute, 10 Commissary Point Rd, Trescott Township, ME, 04652, United States
The CCC welcomes you to a free, in-person session on Wednesday, June 11th, from 9 am – 12 Noon at Cobscook Institute: What Brain Science and Toxic Stress Teach us about Weathering Rough Roads, presented by Julie Redding, LCPC. This learning opportunity will explore the intersection of stress and decision-making in the face of financial hardships and include a Heart of Maine United Way presentation of the ALICE data (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed). This data reveals the growing number of families who are unable to afford the basics of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care, and technology. Designed for Family Futures Downeast partners, staff from all CCC partner organizations are welcome. Three Contact Hours are available for this training. Please fill out the form below to register. You can calendar this event by clicking “add to calendar” below the “submit” button.

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Companion Training to Stress? What Stress?
2025-07-23 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom
CCC is excited to offer a one-hour virtual companion to the 3-hour in person training, Stress? What Stress?: What Brain Science and Toxic Stress Teach us about Weather Rough Roads, held on June 11th focusing on Toxic Stress & ALICE data. This extended session is scheduled for Wednesday, July 23rd at 9 am and will incorporate more of the material not covered on June 11th due to time constraints. Presenter, Julie Redding, will dive more deeply into research on effects of stress on the brain and strategies to support program participants as well as ourselves. This companion training is open to all CCC partners, not only participants who attended the original June 11th training. Register here for our virtual one-hour session on July 23rd.

C4 Meeting
2025-08-01 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-09-05 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-03 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-07 09:00 - 12:30 | ME
The CCC Council is now meeting in person only, hosted by partner organizations across Washington County. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting.

WG, PB & TCI Meeting
2025-08-06 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-09-03 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-10-01 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-11-05 13:00 - 14:30, 2025-12-03 13:00 - 14:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC Work Group, Poverty Busters and TCI Resource Partners meet virtually from 1-2:30 pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Work Group members are direct service workers, volunteers and agency admins who come together to share resources, support each other and brainstorm solutions to community needs. Poverty Busters are low-income community members, partners from agencies, and other community members working on grassroots strategies to increase poverty awareness locally and to remove the barriers that poverty creates. TCI Resource Partners are community members, business owners, health care and service providers who work to connect community members to needed resources. All three groups have come together to improve communication and to ensure that the CCC is effective in helping to change outcomes for those it serves. Parents, service providers and other community members are welcome! Join these meetings by emailing Christy at claurel@cccmaine.org for information on location.

Cultural Sensitivity Registration -- 2025
2025-09-26 10:00 - 15:00 | Bear Lodge, 314 New Pit Road, Princeton, ME, 04668, United States
The CCC invites you to participate in a thought-provoking training session presented by Elizabeth Neptune of Neptune Advantage, focused on Cultural Sensitivity. This session, designed specifically for Family Futures Downeast partners, is open to staff at all member organizations of the Community Caring Collaborative. Training objectives include:

Understand the distinctions between diversity, cultural awareness, and cultural competence, as well as the barriers that can affect working relationships with community members from diverse backgrounds.
Reflect on your position within the cultural awareness continuum and explore strategies for enhancing your relationships with diverse community members.
Identify actionable steps to continue your journey towards greater cultural competence.

This training is in person on September 26th from 10 am — 3 pm at Bear Lodge, situated on the north side of beautiful Long Lake. Get directions. Participants are eligible for 5 contact hours and .5 CEUs.
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Unfortunately, we have reached our seating limit for this training - sorry! If you'd like to be on a waiting list, please email claurel@cccmaine.org. Thank you!

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.
Register for this training by clicking/tapping on this link.

Family Harvest Meal 2025
2025-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Lee Pellon Center, 90 Main Street, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC’s Annual Family Harvest Meal is still on for Friday, October 31st this year — rain or shine. Angie’s Comfort Kitchen will cater a delicious roast turkey dinner beginning at 4 until food runs out. This year we welcome community organizations involved in food security who offer their own community meals to participate in our harvest dinner. Cobscook Institute and Lubec Community Outreach Center are just a couple of organizations who will be contributing to the meal, along with our loyal volunteer bakers, like the Lubec Women’s Club and Machias Memorial High School. We also welcome family-serving agencies to drop off flyers, rack cards and other materials they’d like families to see, and we always welcome more volunteers to help set up, serve, clean up spills, direct traffic, and help us tend to everyone’s needs. Contact Julie at jredding@cccmaine.org if you’d like to volunteer or share program materials. You can help us promote this event by downloading a flyer to share.
If you’d like to make a financial donation, here’s a link to our online donation site. Please join us for this family-friendly event, and don’t forget your Halloween costume!

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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