CCSME is excited to announce Components for Enhancing Career Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT) an in-person workshop on November 21st, 8:30 am — 3:30 pm at Maine Resiliency Center, Lewiston.  This workshop will provide skills to enhance the way you go about your work, lessening the drain and increasing emotional regulation. CE-CERT is a trauma-informed and skills-based model for improving wellness, and reducing secondary traumatic stress and burn-out among helping professionals.  Additionally, CE-CERT is a model for supervisors and leadership to learn and apply in their organizational culture and supervision of workers. Participants are strongly encouraged to sign up as cohorts of supervisors and supervisees, and cohorts will be prioritized over individual participants. SUPERVISORS: Note that there will be a follow-up virtual training just for supervisors on December 2nd, 9:30 to 1:30. Learn more here.

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Prioritizing What Matters to Older Adults
Living with Chronic Disease

Are you a healthcare professional that works with older adults managing one or more chronic diseases? Join us for this interactive learning collaborative that focuses on age-friendly approaches to encourage the development and maintenance of healthy lifestyle behaviors in older adults. During these four sessions, you’ll learn from subject matter experts and guest speakers on how to utilize social supports and community resources for effective goal setting. 4 Sessions between October 22nd and December 3rd.  Learn more here.

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1. UMaine Machias will open its fall gallery show, Alexander Nolan – Paintings, on Tuesday, Oct. 16 from 4 – 6 pm at the Powers Hall Art Gallery.
2. Wabanki WaterWays with Minquansis Sapiel, October 21st in the Indigenous Student Lounge, 221 Torrey Hall, 1 pm (optional Zoom link)
3. Theater at Monmouth presents Romeo & Juliet, October 25th, 6 pm at UMaine Machias Performing Arts Center.
4. Documentary Film Presentation of “Who Made You In America?” a 2017 project directed by UMM Creative Arts faculty Alan Kryszak, on October 26th, 7 pm, Performing Arts Center at UMM.  This film explores the finer points of extremism and patriotism as 22 interviewees from the North Atlantic Coastline share their thoughts on immigration in 2017 America.  Audience after-talk session has the director speaking with Jonathan Reismann: (Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy Emeritus and Statler and Waldorf intern), and Tora Johnson: (Social scientist and director of the Sustainable Prosperity Initiative at the Sunrise County Economic Council).

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Maine Equal Justice reports that starting this month, Maine families who participate in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) are getting a much needed raise in their monthly benefit, for the first time since 2017.  Every family receiving TANF in Maine is benefitting from a 20% increase in the maximum monthly benefit amount.  LD 1877, a bill designed and led by Maine Equal Justice’s TANF/ASPIRE Leadership Team, went into effect on October 1. What does this change mean for families? The maximum grant for a family of three will go up from $858 to $1,030, (or from $1,158 up to $1,330 if they have high housing costs). That could mean an extra bag of groceries for hungry growing kids, a few trips to the gas pump, or just a little more breathing room and time spent with children free of stress and anxiety.

From a daughter’s perspective, you want to be super invested in anything that can help maintain or restore your parents’ ability to handle daily tasks independently and to get around on their own. Unfortunately, the Medicare rules around how and where your parent can get therapy are incredibly COMPLICATED! As part of Daughterhood.org’s series on therapy and functioning at home We boil it down for you.  Click HERE to read the entire article.