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10 Tips A: Choose My Plate

with Nicole Gurreri: Healthy Acadia

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10 Tips A is a 4-lesson series of pre-recorded videos to help you choose and cook healthy foods that fit into your budget. The class includes nutrition tips, recipe demos, and a free cookbook! Special emphasis will be placed on cooking fresh fruits and vegetables during the harvest season. This series includes one optional live Q&A with the course instructor to answer your questions and provide more information about the course material. This is an online class.

Cooking Matters for Adults

with Nicole Gurreri: Healthy Acadia

Oct

October 5th to November 9th, 2021

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This live online 6-session series is designed to teach participants how to prepare tasty, healthy, and affordable meals at home! Class meets weekly over Zoom for 1-hour cooking and nutrition education sessions.

All participants receive a cookbook and a bag of groceries each week to prepare the recipes we learn about in class. This class is perfect for those wanting to improve their cooking skills, learn new recipes, or learn the basics of nutrition and healthy eating. This is a live online class.

Makeup class (if needed) 11/16/21.

Cooking Matters Grocery Store Tour: Online!

with Nicole Gurreri: Healthy Acadia

Aug

August 17th, 2021

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This one-hour course reviews basic tips to choose healthy options at the grocery store while stretching your food budget. Participants will be introduced to MyPlate, practice reading food labels, learn to identify whole grains, and review easy tips to choose healthy options in each food group. This is a live online class.

Get Ready to ZOOM!

with EAE Team

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Get Ready to ZOOM! We are here to support you!

Many of our offerings are now online. To make the most of your Ellsworth Adult Ed courses, please register for this training so you are ready to join ZOOM with confidence and all will run smoothly for you and for others during your class or workshop.

Online courses are generally shorter than in-person sessions, so we strive to do everything we can to ensure that the course starts on time by addressing technical issues in advance. Our support is individualized and involves a survey (phone or email), resources (guides and videos), and in-person or online practice sessions. Before your online course begins, you will need:

a device with a camera and microphone (internal or external);
access to ZOOM on your device;
knowledge of how to join a ZOOM meeting;
the ability to navigate the buttons on the ZOOM screen;
an understanding of how to use communication tools like chat, hand raising and more; and,
an awareness of etiquette to make the most of the experience for you and for others.

This workshop will prepare you! We will be there to support you so you can make the most of your Ellsworth Adult Education workshops, as well as connect with family, friends, religious services and meetings. Please reach out to us!

Live online or in-person training; ongoing enrollment.

Parenting in These Times

with Stacey Wood

Sep

September 30th to October 14th, 2021

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All parents have challenges and during these times parenting can be overwhelming. You are not alone!

Are you interested in parent education that doesn’t tell you how to parent? Looking for simple and practical strategies you can adapt to suit your own values, beliefs and needs? Then the Triple P Positive Parenting Program is for you. The benefits can be dramatic and long-lasting. This particular series supports families with children up to age 12.

This 3-part series, live online, focuses on sharing ideas to:

encourage behavior you like;
deal with problem behavior;
become confident as a parent;
be realistic about parenting; and
help you take care of yourself.

These seminars will be interactive so you'll have time to ask questions. You will also receive handouts on topics of interest to you. We hope it is just the beginning providing support for parents in our community! We encourage your input! This is a live online class.

Makeup class, if needed, 10/21/21.

If you want to learn more about the curriculum here is a link to the Triple-P Positive Parenting Program website.

If you have any questions or want to learn more, please reach out to Annie Sargent at asargent@ellsworthschools.org or 207.664.7110. Ellsworth Adult Education provides support for people new to ZOOM. You will learn more during the registration process.

This program is brought to you by the Ellsworth School Department in support of every child's first teachers!

Families First Community Center Volunteer in Service to Famlies Information Session

with Annie Sargent Families First Community Center Volunteer

Aug

August 18th, 2021

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Families First Community Center is seeking empathetic, positive and sensitive volunteers who would like to support parents as they embark on a path to improve the lives of their children, themselves and their families, by developing their potential to become self-sufficient.

VIFS (Volunteer in Family Service) will support, encourage and assist families to fulfill the life plan developed by the parents, with the support of their case manager. The role of the VIFS is to provide positive communication and support. The needs of each family will be unique, so thoughtful planning will be involved with finding the right match.

This in-person information session will involve a tour of the center, discussion of role and commitment of a Volunteer in Family Service, sharing of tools for communication, and plans for ongoing support of volunteers. This is an in-person session.

If you are interested in this program but are unable to attend this information session, please contact Annie Sargent at asargent@ellsworthschools.org and we will reach out to you!

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