Public Education & Training

In December 2023 and January 2024, residents throughout Maine experieneced severe weeather and damages resulting in destruction to personal property, independently owned businesses, infrastructure and the mental wellbeing of Maine people. These multi-day devastating storms brought significant rainfall, damaging winds, and record flooding for our inland communities and destruction to large portions of the coastal infrastructure including significan coastal flooding and erosion, impacting up to to 60% of Maine's working waterfront-communities that are dependent on the waterfront infrastructure to support individual livelihoods and community ecoonomic sucess.

A robust list of opportunities have been made available through two crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program Grants. A program Coordinated by the Department of health and Human Services office of Behaviorial health in partnership with Maine CDC. Funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in partnership with the Substance Abuse and Mental health Services Administration.

How to Support Children Impacted by Trauma

StrengthenME Storm Response is an effort made possible by two separate grants, both stemming from presidential disaster declarations following severe storms in December 2023 and January 2024 that devastated communities along the coast and inland. There are six separate webinars in the series. All are free of charge to attend. Intended Audience: Individuals impacted by […]

Preparing for the Emotional Impact of the One Year Mark of a Traumatic Event

StrengthenME Storm Response is an effort made possible by two separate grants, both stemming from presidential disaster declarations following severe storms in December 2023 and January 2024 that devastated communities along the coast and inland. There are six separate webinars in the series. All are free of charge to attend. Intended Audience: Individuals impacted by […]

How to Prepare Yourself and Your Family for the Emotional Impact of Future Traumatic Events

StrengthenME Storm Response is an effort made possible by two separate grants, both stemming from presidential disaster declarations following severe storms in December 2023 and January 2024 that devastated communities along the coast and inland. There are six separate webinars in the series. All are free of charge to attend. Intended Audience: Individuals impacted by […]

Managing Anxiety and Fear Related to Climate Change

StrengthenME Storm Response is an effort made possible by two separate grants, both stemming from presidential disaster declarations following severe storms in December 2023 and January 2024 that devastated communities along the coast and inland. There are six separate webinars in the series. All are free of charge to attend. Intended Audience: Individuals impacted by […]