Understanding the Impacts of Trauma 2022-23 Registration
2022-12-09 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
Please use this link to register for the CCC’s free training, Understanding the Impacts of Trauma, presented by Julie Redding, LCPC, 9 am — 12 pm on December 9, 2022. This training will be delivered over Zoom. CEUs will be available. Contact hour certificates will be provided to all participants.

C4 Meeting
2023-01-06 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-02-03 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-03-03 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-04-07 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-05-05 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-06-02 08:30 - 10:30
Meeting of the CCC Council on Zoom. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting.

Understanding the Impacts of Poverty - 2023
2023-02-08 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join the CCC for an overview of the impacts of poverty presented by Charley Martin-Berry and Julie Redding, including definitions and different types of poverty and its physiological effects; exploring bias and systemic barriers; and a special presentation by Sunrise County Economic Council Director, Charles Rudelitch, on the continuum and overlap between the concepts of poverty and living wage. Staff from all CCC partner organizations are welcome. This training will be delivered over Zoom. Register here.

The Reflective Practitioner
2023-03-31 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join the CCC from 9 am to 12 Noon for a 3-hour virtual training on reflective practice presented by Julie Redding, LCPC, Elin MacKinnon, LCSW, and Abby Frutchey, LMSW, LADC, CCS. This training is designed for staff in helping and educational settings who work with children and families and would like to learn more about reflective practice. What is “reflective practice” you ask? Here’s a hint from philosopher and Learning Society theorist Donald Schön: “the ability to reflect on one’s actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning.” Join the CCC on March 31st where we’ll explore what this means, whether it really works, and how to develop reflective practice skills when working with others or when working alone. We’ll provide you with some practical tips and tools to get you started. Register here.

Substance Use & its Impacts 2023 -- Registration
2023-04-12 09:00 - 12:30 | WCCC St Croix Hall, 1 College Drive, Calais, ME, 04619, United States
The CCC is excited to announce a free, in-person training on April 12th: Substance Use and its Impacts, presented by Abby Frutchey, LMSW, LADC, CCS, from 9 am — 12:30 pm in St Croix Lecture Hall at Washington County Community College, Calais. This training will explore substance use related stigma and how we each play a role in reducing this; the underpinnings of SUD, risk and protective factors; and resources to support recovery across communities Please fill out the information requested to register. Morning refreshments will be provided. CEUs from UMM will be available (bring $5 cash or check payable to UMM). CCC will provide certificates for 3.5 contact hours. Registration for this event is now closed.

CCC Vision Day 2023
2023-05-22 10:00 - 15:00 | Cobscook Institute, 10 Commissary Point Rd, Trescott Township, ME, 04652, United States
The Community Caring Collaborative invites you to 2023 CCC Vision Day: Taking Flex Funds to the Next Level, May 22nd from 10 am — 3 pm at Cobscook Institute in Trescott. Join the CCC for a day of envisioning:

How to fully meet the needs of community members facing financial barriers
Streamlining access and processes across programs
Accelerating impact for families

Morning Refreshments & lunch provided. Download a flyer to share. Registration is now closed. You can add this event to your calendar using the “Add to calendar” option below the “submit” button.

No C4 Meeting
2023-07-07 08:30 - 10:30
Meeting of the CCC Council on Zoom, usually on the first Friday of the month, but this month there will be no meeting due to its proximity to Independence Day and vacations.

C4 Meeting
2023-08-04 09:00 - 12:30 | UMM Reynolds Center, 116 O'Brien Avenue, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
In-person-only meeting of the CCC Council. Location: UMM Reynolds Center Conference Room. Use the Add to Calendar button below to calendar this event.

C4 Meeting
2023-09-01 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-10-06 08:30 - 10:30, 2023-11-03 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-01-05 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-02-02 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-03-01 08:30 - 10:30
Hybrid meeting of the CCC Council. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting.

Effectively Communicating & Relating Across Poverty Barriers
2023-09-13 09:00 - 12:00 | WCCC St Croix Hall, 1 College Drive, Calais, ME, 04619, United States
Please join the Community Caring Collaborative and Working Communities Challenge for an impactful morning workshop with national poverty expert Dr. Donna Beegle. In this 3-hour, in-person training, Dr. Beegle uses activities to engage service providers, leaders and educators to explore the impact of life experiences on communication styles and provide a framework for improving communication and relationships with people who live in the war zone of poverty. Washington County Community College is hosting this event in their St Croix Lecture Hall (Gym building). Morning refreshments and Contact Hour Certificates will be provided. Dr. Beegle will also be signing copies of her books for sale.
We are no longer accepting registrations for this training.

Best Practice Tools for Interprofessional Collaboration
2023-10-13 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join the CCC for Best Practice Tools for Interprofessional Collaboration, a new free, virtual training. We’ve probably all had some kind of memorable team meeting experience. For some, it was worthwhile and for others it wasn’t. For many of us, it was somewhere in between. In this training we’ll take a look at what it takes to make wraparound supports between helping professionals productive and meaningful. We’ll look at the evidence base, core competencies, real teamwork scenarios and we’ll use a simple pencil and paper tool to enhance best practice. 9 am — 12 Noon. Register here to join this Zoom training.

Building Cultural Competency 2023 - Registration
2023-10-20 10:00 - 14:00 | Cobscook Institute, 10 Commissary Point Rd, Trescott Township, ME, 04652, United States
The CCC invites you to Building Cultural Competency, a free training presented by Elizabeth Neptune of Neptune Advantage on October 20, 2023, from 10 am — 2 pm at Cobscook Institute in Trescott. Designed for Families Future Downeast staff and partners, this training is open to all CCC partner staff. Objectives include:

understanding the difference between diversity, cultural awareness, & cultural competence, and barriers to working relationships with community members from diverse cultures;
identifying where you are on the cultural awareness continuum, ways to improve working relationships, and ways to continue a cultural competency journey

Morning refreshments and lunch will be provided. All participants will receive a certificate for 4 contact hours. Registration is now closed. Please notify Christy if you’d like to attend.

Family Harvest Meal 2023
2023-10-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Lee Pellon Center, 90 Main Street, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
Everyone loves a roast chicken dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy, especially if Angie Garrison from Angie’s Comfort Kitchen is cooking! The Community Caring Collaborative is delighted to invite community members to join us for dinner at our 5th annual Family Harvest Meal in Machias on October 27th at the Lee Pellon Center. We know that not everyone has the means, the time, or sometimes the energy to make a big meal at home. And for busy parents taking their kids trick or treating down Main Street in Machias, having a meal ready at the end of the route means they don’t have to think about dinner when they get home.
We’re planning on hundreds of meals, and we’re asking for your help in making sure families get to enjoy dinner after trick or treating down Main Street in Machias. We have resource tables available for your organization to share materials or run/donate kids’ activities. We’re looking for volunteers to help us set up, serve, and clean up. Contact Christy at claurel@cccmaine.org if you’d like a table or to volunteer.
This year we’re accepting donations where people can choose to sponsor meals at $15 each on our Givebutter site.
You can also download and share this flyer to help spread the word.

C4 Meeting
2023-12-01 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-04-05 08:30 - 10:30
In-person-only meeting of the CCC Council. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting. Location tbd.

From Trauma to Trauma-Informed
2024-01-12 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
CCC is please to announce a new training: From Trauma to Trauma-Informed: enhancing the customer experience, for FFD Partners but open to all CCC partner organizations. Julie Redding, LCPC, presents a resilience-oriented approach, moving from trauma information to neuroscience-based action, supporting practical skills to build greater capacity for self-regulation and self-care in both service providers and clients. January 12th, 9 am — 12 pm on Zoom. Participants will receive a certificate for 3 contact hours. Register here.

Provider Wellness Session 2
2024-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The Community Caring Collaborative invites you to join us in the large conference room at Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, for session #2 in our Provider Wellness series: Growing Hope with Elin MacKinnon, LCSW. How are providers like seeds? They can bring the hope of new growth and change. Come join us for an hour of fun on Wednesday, March 6th, from 11:30 am — 12:30 pm. We’ll take a hands-on look at the many ways that people and plants are the same and what we both need to stay healthy and grow. Bring a little bit of Spring to your windowsill and join us in some fun where you’ll get to create your own grass head person to grow. Due to the hands-on nature of this session, we are limited to 10 participants. Don’t delay and register below now:

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Building Recovery Capital -- FFD 2024
2024-03-22 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Join the CCC on March 22nd from 9 am — 12 pm for a free, virtual training, Building Recovery Capital through Substance Use Informed Practices, presented by Abby Frutchey, MSW, LADC, CCS. This is a next level core training designed for FFD Partners (but open to all CCC partners) on the concept of individual Recovery Capital – the internal and external assets that participants possess to initiate and sustain recovery. This training explores strategies to strengthen an individual’s recovery capital and alignment with social capital; dives deeply into implicit bias and buffers to act on our biases; and looks at how we create space, communicate, and listen in order to address complex challenges related to substance use disorder by strengthening relationships across populations. Register here. Once you register, we ask you to please let us know at your earliest convenience if a conflict prevents you from attending. Thank you!

Principles and Promise of Two-Gen
2024-04-12 09:00 - 12:00 | University of Maine, Machias, 116 O'Brien Ave, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The Community Caring Collaborative (CCC) invites you to an exciting new training: Understanding the Principles and Promise of Two-Gen Approaches. This training explores how Two-Gen strategies support family economic mobility and wellbeing. Facilitated by CCC Director Charley Martin-Berry, with input from Family Futures Downeast Director Marsha Sloan and FFD participants, this learning event is designed for FFD partner staff and welcomes all CCC partners. The training will be in-person-only at the University of Maine, Machias in Science 102 from 9 am to 12 noon. Training objectives include: Two-gen approaches that support family economic mobility; what distinguishes two-gen programs; FFD history and FFD today; Results of FFD and lessons learned in two-gen approaches.
To register for this training, please fill out the fields below and press the submit button by 12 Noon on April 5th. To calendar this event, click on “Add to calendar” below the registration form before submitting.

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Introduction to Neurographic Art for Providers Registration
2024-04-23 13:00 - 14:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC invites you to unlock your inner calm and relax your brain with Introduction to Neurographic Art for Providers, presented by Elin MacKinnon, LCSW, a FREE, 90-minute in-person introduction to a technique you can add to your coping skills toolbox for yourself and those you work with. April 23rd, 1 — 2:30 pm in the large conference room at Sunrise County Economic Council (7 Ames Way, Machias). Limited capacity so don’t delay. If you’d like to calendar this event, fill out the text fields in the form below, but before you press the submit button, click on the bar to calendar it just below the form. You will also receive an email confirmation that you have registered.

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