Family Harvest Meal 2025
2025-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 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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Feb Work Group
2026-02-04 13:00 - 14:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC Work Group is meeting in the large conference room at Sunrise County Economic Council’s Machias office at 7 Ames Way from 1-2:30 pm. Download an agenda for this meeting. 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. Download a schedule of meeting dates, locations and formats for the rest of 2026.

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2026-02-06 09:00 - 12:30 | Maine Veterans’ Home, Machias, 32 Veterans Way, Machias, ME, United States
The CCC Council is now meeting in person only, pending safe driving conditions, hosted by partner organizations across Washington County. Today’s meeting is hosted by Community Health and Counseling Services at the Maine Veterans Home in Machias. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting.

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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March Work Group
2026-03-04 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
The CCC Work Group is meeting on Zoom from 1-2:30 pm. 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. Download a schedule of meeting dates, locations and formats for the rest of 2026. Parents, service providers and other community members are welcome! Join using this Zoom link, Meeting ID: 896 0273 1221 and Passcode: [REDACTED]

April Work Group
2026-04-01 13:00 - 14:30 | SCEC Calais office, 330 North Street, Calais, ME, 04619, United States
The CCC Work Group is meeting upstairs at Sunrise County Economic Council’s Calais office at 330 North Street from 1-2:30 pm. 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. Download a schedule of meeting dates, locations and formats for the rest of 2026.

May Work Group
2026-05-06 13:00 - 14:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC Work Group is meeting in the large conference room at Sunrise County Economic Council’s Machias office at 7 Ames Way from 1-2:30 pm. 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. Download a schedule of meeting dates, locations and formats for the rest of 2026.

June Work Group
2026-06-03 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom

August Work Group
2026-08-05 13:00 - 14:30 | SCEC Calais office, 330 North Street, Calais, ME, 04619, United States

Sept Work Group
2026-09-02 13:00 - 14:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States

Oct Work Group
2026-10-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom

Nov Work Group
2026-11-04 13:00 - 14:30 | SCEC Calais office, 330 North Street, Calais, ME, 04619, United States

Dec Work Group
2026-12-02 13:00 - 14:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC Work Group is meeting in the large conference room at Sunrise County Economic Council’s Machias office at 7 Ames Way from 1-2:30 pm. 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.
