Maine-Wabanaki REACH

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Maine-Wabanaki REACH is a cross-cultural collaboration that successfully supported the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

REACH is implementing the Commission’s recommendations, focused on Wabanaki health, wellness and self-determination and community building.

REACH envisions and prepares for a future where Maine and Wabanaki people join together, acknowledging truth, promoting healing and creating change.

National Volunteer Appreciation Week April 19 - 25, 2020
We Appreciate YOU!

This week being National Volunteer Appreciation Week, all of us at Maine-Wabanaki REACH would like to express our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to dozens of passionate volunteers who help us in so many ways - whether it be helping to staff tables, setting up or cleaning up at events, co-facilitating workshops, offering support opportunities for volunteers, creating art, writing blogs, addressing thank you notes, donating plants for tribal gardens, taking photos, making connections, or amplifying our teachings - we see you and we appreciate you!!

Many of the ways in which people get involved with REACH is organic in nature. Most recently REACH was contacted by Carolyn Schaperkotter Wollen who wrote that she had been thinking about the need for a lot of masks.

“I have been a hoarder of great quality quilting cotton which is recommended,” Carolyn wrote. “Would it be worthwhile for me to send a box of material to REACH so that someone in the tribes could make their own masks?” REACH identified mask makers for the material to go to and Carolyn readily sent the material along with quilting implements, rotary cutters, and pads. Thank you to Carolyn and the mask makers Esther Mitchell of Wabanaki Public Health, Heather Augustine, Maine-Wabanaki REACH Maine Community Organizer, and Michele Beaney, sister to the co-chair of our Board, Penthea Burns.

Carolyn said, “I have felt very useless in this crisis so I am glad to find a way to help!”

Journeying together toward truth, healing, and change in the Dawnland.

Woliwon~Walalin~Woliwoni~Thank You,
From all of us at Maine-Wabanaki REACH

Events Calendar

May 23, 07:15 PM

Day of Reflection, Meditation, and Prayer - June 14th

On Sunday, June 14, we will pause to remember the lessons from the Truth Commission. It was on this day in 2015 when the Commission issued its final report and findings. We learned about ways to improve child welfare. We call on people and communities of faith to pause on this day in gratitude for all who told their stories, for the Commission and its staff who gathered them with care, and for people across this territory who honor their stories by committing themselves to learning and promoting change. In our reflections, meditations, or prayers, may we join with the efforts for truth, healing, and change. Here is a prayer you can lift up that day: 5-year Celebration of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Work We know that faith communities across this territory are using online technology to gather in celebration and in worship. Members of REACH’s Decolonizing Faith project are producing recorded content to share with faith communities. This recorded service will include music, prayer, and reflections that guide our work to decolonize and restore our world. This recorded service will include music, prayer, and reflections that guide our work to decolonize and restore our world. It will be available to access beginning June 12.

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National Volunteer Appreciation Week April 19 - 25, 2020We Appreciate YOU!

Events Calendar

Day of Reflection, Meditation, and Prayer - June 14th

National Volunteer Appreciation Week April 19 - 25, 2020
We Appreciate YOU!