Community Events

Online Only.  Start your journey to becoming a foster or adoptive parent!  After registering, you will be sent a link to access an informational video.  The licensing process, available resources, supports, and next steps for those interested are among the topics covered.  Foster families and homes are needed in every Maine community.  Children in foster care need supportive adults to provide loving homes until they can be safely reunited with their families.  Come learn more to see if this could be you.  Viewing usually takes one hour.  Online Only.

Maine Driving Dynamics Course offers all drivers the opportunity to improve their defensive driving abilities.  This five-hour course will include discussion of collision avoidance techniques, safety issues, driver habits and attitudes, and the basic elements that constantly challenge drivers on Maine's highways.  Those completing the course will receive a certificate and a three-point credit on their driving record.  Seniors over 55 receive a discount on their auto insurance.  Seniors mail in a payment of $25 (ages 65 and older) to register.

Remember the 3 Ds?  Direct, delegate...and what was the third one?  What might you say or do if you hear a racial epithet in a store while shopping with your child?  Or if a friend in a new relationship starts missing zoom meetings?  If you've taken a previous Green Dot Training, you can sign up for a free and interactive booster session where we'll brainstorm and practice responding to scenarios arising in our community.

Have you ever seen or heard someone harass, bully, or threaten another person, and wish you knew what to say or do?  Most of us have.  We are all much more likely to be a bystander than a participant or victim of hateful and hurtful words and behavior.  Green Dot teaches safe and proven-effective Bystander Intervention Techniques that every member of a community can use, both proactively to change culture for the better, and reactively to reduce harm.  None of us can do everything, but each of us can do our part to make Lewiston-Auburn a safer and more welcoming community.  Any folks who have already attended a workshop are also warmly welcomed.  We find we learn something new almost every class and you might have had some experiences doing Green Dots that would be helpful.