The Community Caring Collaborative

WG, PB & TCI Meeting
2024-01-03 13:00 - 14:30, 2024-02-07 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 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 using this Zoom link, Meeting ID: 896 0273 1221 and Passcode: [REDACTED]

C4 Meeting
2024-01-05 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-02-02 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-03-01 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-05-03 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-06-07 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-07-05 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-08-02 08:30 - 10:30, 2024-09-06 08:30 - 10:30 and 1 more date | ME
Hybrid meeting of the CCC Council. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting.

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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WG, PB & TCI Meeting
2024-03-06 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 are meeting from 1-2:30 pm in the large conference at Sunrise County Economic Council’s office at 7 Ames Way, Machias, 3x/year, including this 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!

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!

WG, PB & TCI Meeting
2024-04-03 13:00 - 14:30, 2024-08-07 13:00 - 14:30, 2024-09-04 13:00 - 14:30, 2024-10-02 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom

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

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.
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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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WG, PB & TCI Meeting
2024-05-01 13:00 - 14:30 | Zoom
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.

Moving People out of Poverty
2024-05-24 09:00 - 11:30 | Cobscook Institute, 10 Commissary Point Rd, Trescott Township, ME, 04652, United States
Please join us for this free, newly developed training presented by CCC Director, Charley Martin-Berry. This training will explore high-level definitions and impacts of poverty, including a review of statewide poverty data. Moving beyond the impacts of poverty, participants will gain understanding of community-level infrastructure and supports that help people move out of poverty, with close examination of strategies that promote social capital. Participants will have time to work individually or in small groups to identify low-cost or no-cost approaches to helping their clients/students improve economic mobility through expanding their social networks. Designed for staff of Family Futures Downeast partner organizations, but staff from all CCC partner organizations are welcome. 2.5 Contact Hours will be provided. Participants may attend in person at Cobscook Institute in Trescott or via Zoom. Click on “add to calendar” below the form to calendar this event.
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Mindful Nature Journaling for Providers
2024-06-05 11:30 - 12:30 | Sunrise County Economic Council, 7 Ames Way, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
The CCC invites you to the 4th session in our Provider Wellness Series: Mindful Nature Journaling for Providers presented by Elin MacKinnon, LCSW. No artistic talent is required to begin this adventure into nature journaling as a tool for connection with nature and yourself. Join us for an introduction to nature journaling for beginners. We will explore what it is, how to get started and what you’ll need to make nature journaling part of your self care routine. This session is designed for service providers who would like to explore the many mental and physical health benefits of nature journaling for mindfulness and stress relief. 11:30 am, June 5th in the large conference room at Sunrise County Economic Council’s 7 Ames Way office in Machias. Participation is limited to 15. There is no charge for this event.

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WG, PB & TCI Meeting
2024-06-05 13:00 - 14:30, 2024-11-06 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 are meeting from 1-2:30 pm at Sunrise County Economic Council’s office in Machias at 7 Ames Way. 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!

Cultural Humility Training Registration
2024-10-11 09:30 - 12:00 | Cobscook Institute, 10 Commissary Point Rd, Trescott Township, ME, 04652, United States
Please join the CCC for a newly developed training presented by Elizabeth Neptune of Neptune Advantage, Cultural Humility, designed for Family Futures Downeast partners, but open to all partners of the Community Caring Collaborative. This training is in-person only and will be held at Cobscook Institute in Trescott from 9:30 am to Noon on Friday, October 11th. Learning Objectives for this training 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.

Registration for this training is now closed. Thank you!

Family Harvest Meal 2024
2024-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 | Lee Pellon Center, 90 Main Street, Machias, ME, 04654, United States
Welcome to the CCC’s 6th annual Family Harvest Meal, a free public supper with resource tables and raffle prizes following Trick or Treat Down Main Street in Machias at the Lee Pellon Center from 4 — 6 pm. All are welcome to eat in or take food to go. This year’s menu catered by Angie’s Comfort Kitchen is roast turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, and harvest vegetables with mac ‘n cheese as an alternate entree. Desserts include apple and blueberry crisp, and cookies and brownies donated by Machias Memorial High School, Washington Academy and the West Lubec Methodist Church. Download a flyer to share.
Adding to the spooky fun this year is a haunted house just outside the Lee Pellon Center coordinated by the Machias Arts Council.
Like to get involved? We’re always looking for people to help us set up, serve, bus tables, and more. Contact Charley Martin-Berry (cmartinberry@cccmaine.org) to volunteer. Set-up starts at 12:30, resource tables can be set up between 2 – 3 pm, and servers are asked to arrive by 3:30 pm.
If you’d like to make a donation to help us fund this community feast, Thank you! Here’s a link to our donation site. Contact Christy at claurel@cccmaine.org with any other questions. We love hosting this community meal and hope to see you there!

C4 Meeting
2024-11-01 09:00 - 12:30 | ME
CCC Council is now meeting in person, hosted by partners across the County. Contact Charley Martin-Berry to join this meeting.
