Community Building

Central Hall Commons nurtures a welcoming, inclusive, healthy, rural community culture. Engaging people and organizations in the Maine Highlands region in connecting, celebrating, and learning together. The following partnership focused programs are designed to foster community engagement and inclusion.

Working Communities Challenge

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The Working Communities Challenge was launched in Maine in October 2020. With the goal to understand how persistent and growing poverty impacts the region and to develop collaborative and inclusive strategies for everyone in the team’s communities to thrive. In the Maine Highlands Region, we focus on empowering and enabling people living at or near the poverty level to become healthy, independent, and engaged community members.

The Maine Highlands Region includes:

Abbot • Atkinson • Beaver Cove • Blanchard • Bowerbank • Cambridge • Charleston • Dexter • Dover-Foxcroft • Exeter • Garland • Greenville • Guilford • Harmony •

Lagrange • Medford • Milo • Monson • Northeast Piscataquis • Northwest Piscataquis • Parkman • Ripley • Rockwood • Sangerville • Sebec • Shirley •

Southeast Piscataquis • Wellington • Willimantic

Helping Hands with Heart

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Currently, HHH is narrowing its focus and is developing plans to continue to support children and families. We are dedicated to assuring that Piscataquis County has a strong voice for its children and families.

This is where our future begins…..

The Maine Highlands Council for the Arts

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The Maine Highlands Council for the Arts exists to support, strengthen, and encourage all branches of the arts in the region. This is accomplished by providing opportunities for collegiality and community among artists, providing a central location for online information of local artists, and encouraging culture and creativity in the Maine Highlands region.

Dover-Foxcroft Age Friendly Committee

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Back in 2016, the town of Dover-Foxcroft expressed an interest and commitment to the AARP/World Health Organization Network of Age-Friendly Communities.

Recognizing the importance of promoting age-friendly planning and policies to address changing demographics in our region. Looking forward we strive to implement a process of continual improvement to support active and healthy aging. Healthy Aging being one of Central Hall Commons’ re-focused values as a Multi-Generational Community Center, we are proud to provide a space within which to make this work possible.

The Recovery Wellness Initiative

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The Recovery Wellness Initiatives Mission is to provide a safe, sober space and supportive community for people affected by addiction regardless of experience, traumas or hurts, and with the intention to create the opportunity for wellness.

Weekly cafes are held on Wednesday evenings from 5:00PM – 6:30PM at Central Hall Commons. Virtual support is also available through Facebook Public and Private groups.

American Exchange Project

Returning to Dover-Foxcroft | June 13 – 21, 2023

AEP is an unique & free domestic summer exchange program for graduated high school seniors. This is a chance to travel, explore, and learn more about the United States from the people and places in it. Staying with a host family is an essential part of the AEP experience.

Through our host family model, students will get to experience day-to-day life in the community they are visiting, and families get to know someone from a completely different part of the country!