Maine Childrens Home for Little Wanderers

• Assure programs are relevant and innovative, meeting existing community needs and readily adapting as those needs change
• Maintain strong focus on Relationship Development and Community Engagement, building strong community support and involvement
• Continue building a professional staff of diverse, committed, educated, and involved individuals
• Build a Board that is diverse, representative, strong, well-oriented, and flexible
• Continue growing financial stability and maintain strong fiscal stewardship
• Expand service reach and delivery efficiently and effectively
• Continue Strategic Visioning which is an evolving, responsive process to current and emerging community needs

Top Strategies:
1. Trauma-Informed Care and Spaces, incorporating Belonging, Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion (B-EDJI)
2. Community & Stakeholder Communications and Engagement
3. Staff Engagement and Professional Development
4. Board Engagement and Professional Development
5. Build out programs in alignment with Financial Sustainability and Fiscal Responsibility

Why MCH?
Since the pandemic struck Maine in 2020, MCH has reconfigured training opportunities and delivery methods for programs through our Connected Families Project. We have also included this training and support as part of client participation in all of our programs. In 2021, our strong clinical and therapy staff was augmented by the addition of our new Clinical Director for MCH, a highly regarded clinician and leader who is well-versed and well-respected throughout our community educational systems for her work in trauma care for children and families.

• MCH has received several invitations from various school systems to provide staff training in addressing trauma (we have delivered trainings in Camden-Rockport and have been requested to present trainings for Bath, as well as working directly with schools in the Greater Waterville Area)

• Recently, a local school system requested our help in providing emergency clinical support following a traumatic event impacting the school.

• In September 2021, MCH hosted Emily Read Daniels, M.Ed., MBA, NCC, SEP™ in training, a well-respected national expert on the effects of trauma, to work with our staff and present a community education opportunity for other area providers.

• Our Clinical Director presented at the Attachment and Trauma Network’s Trauma-Informed Schools National Conference a national conference on Creating Trauma-Informed Schools (February 24 – 25, 2022) on the topic of “Building a Trauma-Informed Organization.” (https://www.attachmenttraumanetwork.org/conference/)

• We have recently been awarded three grants to provide support groups to youth in our community: Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation, Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation, and Maine Community Foundation.

• We are becoming recognized and respected for this work, and are prepared to take this work to the next level to meet these needs

Trainings on being a trauma-informed organization (TIO) with staff - with continued training in development
Providing training to local schools and youth-serving programs - staff and leadership
Providing training and supports to parents
Plans to present TIO training to Board and other volunteers
Plans in development for building trauma-informed spaces