Downeast Youth Voices

Community Circle Series

Healthy Acadia is facilitating a monthly listening circle for Downeast teens and young adults to come together. The Community Circle will offer a carefully constructed, intentional dialogue space for young people to connect, share their experiences, and imagine the future. The Circle will meet from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. one Thursday per month via the Zoom platform., and all interested teens and young adults are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Circle facilitators aim to gather voices of young people and hear their stories, which in turn will help to collectively guide and support the work of Healthy Acadia and other local community organizations working for the common good.

Each month, the Circle will be co-facilitated by a local partner organization working to create positive and lasting change in our community. Interested young people may opt to join one or all of the Circles. Click here to learn more.

Pre-registration is required. Click here to register. Registrants will receive an email containing the Zoom link to join.

Downeast Q+ Meetup on Discord

Healthy and Downeast Rainbow Alliance have joined forces to create an online space for Q+ and allied youth and young adultsages 13-22 in Washington and Hancock counties. This space is on Discord, a free service accessible from mobile and desktop devices that allows users to connect in real-time via voice, text or video. Annie Shields of the Downeast Rainbow Alliance and Corrie Hunkler, Youth Engagement Coordinator moderate this space to ensure safety and positive community for all youth involved.

To access the DowneastQ+ meetup, install the Discord app to your device and click here. For more information or for help connecting a youth to this channel, please contact Corrie at Corrie.Hunkler@HealthyAcadia.org.