☕ MyT Coffee Connect ☕ Brew connections. Share ideas. Empower resilience.
Join us for a casual monthly gathering designed just for MyT members! This is your chance to sip on your favorite coffee (or tea), connect with fellow youth-serving professionals, and engage in meaningful conversations.
✨ Why join?✨
When: Every month on the fourth Friday from 9:00 am to 10:00 am Where:
Together, we’ll continue promoting the science of the positive so Maine’s young people can flourish.
Let’s Educate. Engage. Empower. while we caffeinate! ☕
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Are you an early childhood educator, pre-K provider, or public-school professional dedicated to nurturing the well-being of young children? Our Train-the-Trainer program is designed to equip you with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to promote Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) and resilience in your educational or caregiving environment.
This comprehensive program will empower you to lead training sessions within your own community, ensuring that more children and families across Maine benefit from these vital strategies.
This program is ideal for:
Prerequisite: Participants should have experience in facilitating professional development sessions and a strong commitment to promoting PCEs and resilience.
Understanding the Impact of Experience:
Implementing Positive Childhood Experiences:
Certification:
Session Breakdown:
Register Today to transform your training approach and help children, families, and communities thrive across Maine.
REIMAGINE: SPRING SPEAKER SERIES | MAY 2025
To honor Mental Health Awareness Month, this May MyT brings you three visionary conversations with local Maine experts on how to foster youth well-being.
MyT’s Reimagine Speaker Series invites you to join us in reimagining what is possible for youth, their families, and their futures. Now more than ever, we need voices that move us beyond what has been. This series intends to mobilize us to use our resilience today toward building the tomorrow that we need. While holding the multifaceted challenges and uncertainty that young people and caring adults face, this series is meant to help flip the script and embolden us to imagine the future we are longing for so that we can bring it into being.
Thursdays in May
11-12:30pm on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7040215445?omn=85697065752&jst=2
May 1 - Reimagine Social Emotional Learning
Centering Connection, Compassion, and Care
Social-emotional learning (SEL) has been championed and challenged in recent years, so how do we reclaim its heart and reimagine its purpose?
Join SEL/EI Specialist and children’s author, Kellie Doyle Bailey as she shares insights on how we can reimagine SEL to center connection, compassion, and a contagion of care—both for young people and the adults who guide them. Through the lens of neuroscience, emotional intelligence, mindfulness and creative expression, we’ll explore practical ways to nurture resilience, connection and belonging for everyone.
Drawing on her longtime work in emotional intelligence, neuro-developmental sequences of humans and her children’s book series, including Some Days I Flip My Lid and the Some Days collection, Kellie will highlight how mindfulness and neuroscience can serve as powerful tools for emotional regulation and co-regulation.
May 15 - Reimagine Brain Power
Expanding Our Understanding of Neurodevelopmental Differences
More awareness has been building around neurodevelopmental differences, but how do we respond in ways that truly support youth and their families? Join public health policy analyst, Michelle Fong in reimagining how we reapproach the conversations on neurodivergence, expand our understanding beyond boxes, and build our collective brain power. When youth with NDD’s and their families are seen, heard, valued, and supported, everyone’s mental health improves.
Michelle Fong is a Public Health Policy Analyst from Maine, mom of two grown children, and co-founder of Navimental which simplifies youth mental health care for families. Her interest and experience in health policy grew from her experiences as a parent. Michelle will help us think about what it means to increase positive childhood experiences for all youth in ways that make our communities stronger.
May 29 - Reimagine Social Connection
Breaking Barriers and Building Bonds through the Arts
Youth report wanting to be more socially connected in ways that increase rather than detract from their mental health. How might the arts be used to increase connection across differences and improve our collective well-being? Join community-based educational leader and Maine-based founder of Spark Inclusive Arts, Michaela Knox in reimagining how youth with and without disabilities can break barriers and build bonds together. This talk will invite participants to engage in core concepts of the DanceAbility method that can be applied to a variety of contexts and situations to foster positive childhood experiences and social connection for young people of all bodies and minds.
Michaela Knox is passionate about supporting others in the discovery and research of their creative expression. Drawing on her work as a performer, choreographer, and teacher, Michaela will guide us in exploring how we can all take steps to dissolve barriers between people. Her belief that the arts can change the world is contagious - join her in discovering how artistic expression can create a more inclusive and socially connected society.
Maine Youth Thriving
*Invitation limited to those serving Birth to Eight years of age
In partnership with Maine DOE, this program series is for Private/Public Early Child Care Providers and Private/Public-School Educators Caring for Children Birth-8 years of age.
Title: The Impact of Experience: How Adverse Childhood Experiences and Positive Childhood Experiences Impact Healthy Child Development (Part I)
Join this training to gain a comprehensive understanding of how both adverse and positive childhood experiences sculpt the foundation of individual development and uncover the transformative potential of PCEs in nurturing the children you work with.
No Cost Professional Development Training via https://maineresilience.org/event-6048519
May 7, 2025
6:00-8:00pm
Invite colleagues to join the conversation.
Zoom will be provided
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Reimagine Brain Power
Thursday May 15th
11-12:30pm
Zoom link will be sent before the event
Title: Addressing Compassion Fatigue and Resilience Strategies in Educators and Caregivers
Join this training to explore stress impact and address compassion fatigue by developing strategies that promote resilience and reconnect you with the "why " of your work.
May 28th
6:00-8:00 PM
no charge
Reimagine Social Connection
Thursday May 29th
Zoom link will sent before the event
October 7, 2025
October 21st
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