The Office of Child and Family Services and the Maine Children’s Trust are pleased to announce the next webinar in our 2025 Prevention Webinar Series to continue the conversation about how we can all build supportive communities and keep children safe by keeping families strong. This webinar follows a series of recorded webinars held over the past several years where strategies have been shared for what everyone can do to strengthen and support families as a means to prevent child abuse and neglect and other adverse conditions.
When: Monday, August 4, 2025: from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. via Zoom Topic: The Fundamentals of Collective Impact
Overview: As indicated in Maine’s Child Safety and Family Well-Being Plan, a coordinated child safety and family well-being system is essential to families getting the support they need, when they need it. This requires state and community partners to understand and act on the unique and complementary roles they play in this system.
In this webinar, Jennifer Juster, Executive Director of the Collective Impact Forum, will talk about how improving outcomes for children and families requires more than just collaboration, it requires a structured, long-term approach that brings community, nonprofits, government, and business together around a shared vision and implementation. Collective impact has been widely recognized as a transformative model for cross-sector collaboration and is a proven strategy for driving meaningful, systems-level change, but it requires the right conditions, mindset shifts, and commitment from all partners involved.
Participants will:
- Learn the five conditions of collective impact and why they are critical to success.
- Understand how collective impact differs from traditional collaborations and partnerships.
- Learn how everyone can engage in collective impact work and gain practical strategies to strengthen collaboration.
In order to participate or receive the webinar recording and resources, please register here by August 1, 2025 at 5 p.m. Please mark your calendars as a meeting invitation and link to the webinar will be sent to you the day prior to the scheduled webinar.
Thank you for partnering with the Office of Child and Family Services and the Maine Children’s Trust to ensure all Maine children and families can be safe, stable, happy, and healthy!
Christine Theriault, LMSW, PS-C
Family First Prevention Services Program Manager
Office of Child and Family Services
SHS 11, 2 Anthony Avenue
Augusta, ME 04333
Phone: (207)624-7914
Click here learn more about Family First Prevention Services in Maine.
To learn about services and supports available for Families in Maine visit www.AccessMaine.org
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