Join us to learn how to incorporate restorative based practices into your youth engagement work.
Are you incorporating social emotional learning into your teaching practice? Working with colleagues to build a trauma- or healing-informed approach? Join fellow educators and youth facilitators in layering a restorative lens onto youth engagement practices. Workshop participants will explore restorative frameworks, build foundational skills, and strategize opportunities to promote restorative approaches in relationships and communities.
Community
Learn about community-driven research models and their value in creating environmental change.
Using these models, develop strategies to directly partner with youth in prevention focused research and build their skills and engagement.
Learn about community-driven research models and their value in creating environmental change.
Using these models, develop strategies to directly partner with youth in prevention focused research and build their skills and engagement.
The keynote speaker, Dr. Carolyn Allard will talk about moral injury, guilt, and shame in the morning. In the afternoon, she will discuss Trauma Informed Guilt Reduction (TrGR training). Afternoon breakouts will include a presentation from Francine Stark from the Maine Coalition of Domestic Violence, a briefing on Military 101 from the Maine National Guard, and training on post-traumatic effects on the relationship from the Lewiston Vet Center. There will be plenty of military and veteran informational and networking opportunities throughout the day, a panel presentation by Gold Star family members, and breakout sessions that include important and timely issues for military and people who work with them. Veteran Service Representatives will also be available. To round out the day, VetTalkX: Maine Women Veterans will feature five to six Veterans sharing their personal stories of inspiration and accomplishments since leaving the military. Registration fee for Military Personnel and Veterans $10.00.
Join us for our 5th annual LGBTQ+ Healthcare Conference. This year the Wabanaki Two-Spirit Alliance will be providing our keynote address and the conference will center around the theme of rural health. This annual conference brings together providers and community members to learn about LGBTQ+ health disparities and build collaborative energy around their different work to address these issues across Maine.
This year’s conference features 34 oral presentations about addiction, public health programs and research in Maine, a poster session, and a plenary presentation, “Public Health Reimagined: A Blueprint for Building a Modern, Responsive, and Relevant Public Health System in Maine”. Fees for conference are variable, please check the registration form.
Join this interactive workshop to lift up the youth voices in your work and fill your training toolkit with facilitation, experiential, and innovative methods that bolster youth leadership, youth participation, and community engagement. Leave with inspiration and creative ideas about facilitating safe spaces, dialogue and collective action, issues youth care about and debrief & reflection tools that you can use as a youth facilitator!