Start your journey to becoming a foster or adoptive parent with this class! After registering, you will be sent a link to access an information video. The licensing process, available resources, supports, and next steps for those interested are among the topics covered. Foster families and homes are needed in every Maine community. Children in foster care need suportive adults to provide loving homes until they can be safely reunited with their family. Come learn more to see if this could be you. Viewing usually takes 1 hour for 1 session 

Fee: Free kmcdonough@spurwink.org or 207-391-8966. Start date and time will be at your convenience once you register and receive the emailed link. 

Looking for in meaningful work? Children’s behavioral health services are vital to Maine’s Children with intellectural disabilities, autism and mental health disorders and their families. As an integral part of the child’s treatment team, a Certified Behavioral Health Professional (BHP) has the opportunity to make an immediate impact while helping a child grown and develop to their full potential. We are excited to connect our community with this wonderful ONLINE training and certificate program. This training will prepare you for employment through local social service agencies and equip you to work with children who qualify for services. This program can be started at any time and finished at your own pace. You will complete 12 online modules, then three 4-hour live (in-person) sessions. Once the modules are completed, you will receive free online blood borne pathogen training and Child and Adult First Aid & CPR Certification. In just 40 hours, our free remote training program can get you certified and on your way to a life changing profession. Must be a Maine resident, and at least 18 years old with a high school diploma (or equivalent) to beome certified. 

Location: Online for course details see Blended Learning Curriulum@ woodfordsfamilyservice 

The 130 hour Certified Nursing Assistant Course is designed to prepare the student to be a Nursing Assistant. Call the Adult Ed Office at 778-3460 for an application, registration requirements and placement on a waiting list. Details regarding dates, location and fees will be provided to participants as the class list is completed. 

Assessments required. 

This class will be runs in the Fall of 2022!

Call and get signed up for our fall session at 207-778-3460.

State Approved Certified Medical Technician Program. Includes: 60 hours classroom, 20 hours classroom/lab, and 40 hours clinical training. This is a 120 hour course preparing CNA’s working in nursing homes to administer medications under the supervision of an RN (this 40 hour piece should be scheduled at the facility, by the facility, and a schedule provided to the instructor.) PREREQUISITE: CNA license +2080 hours as a CNA. Call the Adult Ed Office at 778-3460 for an application and detailed registration requirements. 

Assessments required. 

Location: Sandy River Nursing Home 

FRANKLIN COUNTY ADULT EDUCATION THE TIME IS NOW!! COLLEGE TRANSITIONS

Ready? Set? GO!! Are you prepared to go to college? Need a little support before you head off to campus? The Adult Education Office is here for support on your journey. We are having a College Transitions class. Come brush up on ELA, Math, Technology and College Culture.

EXPLORE COLLEGE AND CAREER OPTIONS

Contact Sandra Brown sbrown@mtbluersd.org

Join us to plan your future whether you have graduated from high school, or have your HiSET or have taken college courses! 

Become faster and more confident at the keyboard. This course will help you learn how to touch-tyoe the alphabetic, numeric, and symbol keys; create, save, and edit word processing documents; and successfully take a timed writing test during a job interview. If you want to learn touch-tyoing or improve your existing typing skills, this is the perfect course for you! In these lessons, you’ll use the Keyboarding Pro 5 program, a typing tutorial designed for personal computers, to learn how to touch-type - that is, to type text you read from a printed page or a computer screen without looking at your keyboard. With the skills you master here, you’ll become faster and more confident at the keyboard. By the end of the couse, you’ll know how to touch-type the alphabetic, numeric, and symbol keys; create, save, and edit work processing documents; and successfully take a timed writing test during a job interview. Go to Ed2go.com/fcabe to join the class

This is a 40 hour course with 5 training sessions. This course will cover State of Maine regulations, some standard residential facility policies, basic anatomy and physiology of the human body, common medications in the majority of drug classes, and the practice of safe medication administration procedures. Additionally, participants will be provided the opportunity to practice taking vital signs, transcribing physician orders, 

administering medications in the classroom setting and completing medication 

cards/worksheets or some other type of learning tool. Assessments required. 

Running in the Spring of 2022

*Recertification is required every 2 years 

Fee: $300 - Classroom Only 

$100 - Medication Pass 

Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Services

Parents in the Know is an interactive 4 session course designed by PCAR and presented by SAPARS. This course is not just for parents but for any person who is interested in learning how to keep children safer from sexual abuse. Sessions will take place via zoom with phone support if needed. This course is free of charge but will require a conversation with the facilitators before admission to the course. For more information contact educators@sapars.org.