Events

Developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty & Stress will provide participants with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to understand and manage their emotions and those of their students. The 10-hour online course is designed for school staff, including teachers, paraprofessionals, counselors, principals, and non-teaching staff in preK-12 schools

https://www.coursera.org/learn/managing-emotions-uncertainty-stress

Presenters: Kile Pelletier, Program Associate, Speaking Up For Us, Staci Converse, Managing Attorney, Disability Rights Maine

Supported Decision-Making (SDM), often used as an alternative to guardianship, recognizes that people with decision-making challenges can retain their decision-making capacity by using supports to help them make choices.

Learn how SDM can be used to help preserve a person’s autonomy and independence, while still providing the person with support from family, friends, and community. Additionally, this training will provide a brief history of SDM and include information about exciting changes to Maine’s guardianship law, which now requires SDM and other less restrictive alternatives to be considered prior to awarding guardianship.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_G4ZvAyUbSiOn83wp_MSIxw

Materials: Supported Decision-Making Handbook, available for download at http://www.supportmydecision.org

For more information, contact Staci Converse at 800.452.1948 or via email, sconverse@drme.org.

This Friday, January 22^nd @ 12 pm Community Partners will be hosting a Town Hall style meeting with the Community Support Network (CSNI) to discuss the latest updates for the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Jonathan Ballard and Dr. Elizabeth Talbot will be sharing helpful information in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine and will be available to answer your questions.

Community Partners has the opportunity to be a vaccination site for our clients' ages 16 and older.

At this time, our COVID-19 Team and Executive Director are working with the Strafford County Public Health Network to determine exactly how many vaccines we will receive and when our vaccination site will open. This does take time, however, we are working on finalizing this information as quickly as possible.

If you would feel more comfortable consulting your child’s Primary Care Physician to determine the next steps please feel free to do so.

This meeting was put together on short notice so we are working on getting this information out as quickly as possible.

If you cannot attend this meeting, please know it will be recorded and shared on our Community Partners YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvFiTzdLyi3zSpKchSsYqPw)I will also relay to families once the recording is available.

If you have specific questions that you’d like to ask, please send an email to Heather Young, hyoung@csni.org asap