Lifelong, Thriving and Resilient Communities: Understanding and Building Relationships

AARP Maine State Director, NOËL BONAM

CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN OUR COMMUNITIES:

Inn Along the Way’s 2024 Challenging Conversations Series

LIFELONG, THRIVING and RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: Understanding and Building Relationships

FACILITATED BY NOËL BONAM, AARP MAINE STATE DIRECTOR

The Inn Along the Way (IAW) holds its fourth and final Summer 2024 Challenging Community Conversation on Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 3PM at 741 Main Street in Damariscotta. This informative event will connect the dots between this summer’s topics “affordable housing, caregiving and caregivers and the social drivers of health as they relate to contemporary challenges facing our communities.”


The conversation will be facilitated by Noël Bonam, AARP Maine State Director.

While Community Resilience is the sustained ability of any community to use available infrastructure and other resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations, either man-made or natural disasters, it is the community’s ability to recognize and leverage the interconnectedness of key resources, existing frameworks and community strengths that drive resilience.

This allows for the adaptation and growth of a community after disaster strikes. Communities that are resilient are able to minimize any type of disaster, making the return to normal life as effortless as possible. By implementing a community resilience plan developed by diverse stakeholders, while keeping marginalized members of the community at the core of all planning conversations, a community can come together and overcome any disaster, while rebuilding physically and economically.

The IAW’s thought-provoking “connecting the dots towards livability, thriving and resilient communities” conversation promises to be insightful and engaging. Noël Bonam will encourage participants through stories, words and creative thinking to discuss and respond to questions such as:

• What brought you to this place in your life and what have you discovered?
• What perspectives, challenges about living in community do you wish to share today?
• What can we do as individuals so that our community becomes more livable for each of us and residents of all ages?
• What actions can we take within our community to change the narrative and local outcomes for us and for others?

Come, listen and learn more! Share what is on your mind as we continue to build healthy relationships with our environment by providing community members with an opportunity for self-reflection, exploration and sharing conversations in a welcoming and safe environment.

Join us: Sunday, September 29, 2024 at 3PM at 741 Main Street in Damariscotta

 
IAW’s mission is to create a collaborative community offering older adults, and those seeking temporary relief from the responsibilities of caregiving, an environment of support, purpose, and sustainability in a multigenerational and mutually interdependent setting (www.innalongtheway.org).
 

For more information, please contact: Sherry Flint (207-751-6261) sherry@innalongtheway.org.