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.