ELLSWORTH, Maine (WABI) – Healthy Acadia and Maine’s Permanent Commission partnered together for a Listening Session Tuesday night.
The discussion took place at the Moore Community Center in Ellsworth.
Free dinner and childcare were offered to anyone in attendance.
Organizers say the purpose of the session was to gather feedback from Blac, Latine, Indigenous and other People of Color.
The input shared by the community helps guide the organization’s work and priorities.
“How do you know what the people need if you don’t hear from the people? So we are here not to assume, we are here to connect with the community, we are here to hear directly from them. We are here to be able to carry the community along in our work, that is the statutory mandate that we have,” said Angela Okafor, Permanent Commission’s Community Engagement Director.
The listening session was facilitated by Jacques Newell Taylor, the founder of the Exercise Design Lab and developer of Neuro-Logic Training.