Thrive Together Institute
MyT’s hub for workshops, retreats, and professional development opportunities can help you support young people and cultivate connected, creative, and joyful communities of caring professionals.
Our team of facilitators possesses over 60 combined years of experience in prevention, public education, youth mental health and development, and trauma-informed community building for those who are on the front lines of caring for others. Our offerings are trauma-informed, research-informed, and youth-informed.
The Thrive Together Institute reflects MyT’s core tenet that thriving happens in relationship, not isolation. Participants experience hands-on learning, experimentation, playing, and growing together in positive, meaningful ways that restore connection to one another and to the work of uplifting future generations.
Through partnerships with communities and organizations, the Institute seeks to build momentum in these impact areas: youth resilience, caregiver well-being & workforce sustainability, mattering and community thriving.
Myt has supported partners across maine
The Alfond Youth & Community Center, Aroostook Mental Health Services, Bowdoin College’s McKeen Center for the Common Good, The Boys & Girls Club of Kennebec Valley, Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA), The Center to Advance Interprofessional Education at UNE, Disability Rights Maine, GEAR Up, Jobs for Maine Graduates, Maine Affiliates for Health, Maine Children’s Trust, Maine Council for Aging, Maine Department of Education, Maine Educational Opportunity Association, Maine Sea Grant, Maternal Fetal Medicine at Maine Medical Center, Rural Thrive through University of Maine, RSU 57, RSU 10, RSU 14, RSU 18, RSU 56, MSAD 35, School, LRTC (Lewiston Regional Technical Center), Sanford School Department, St George MSU, Stratton School, Yarmouth Family School Alliance & many more!
What do you want to build?
YOUTH RESILIENCE
Greater mental health, protection and prevention from ACEs, engaged and empowered youth, positive childhood experiences (PCEs), and social connection.
CAREGIVER WELL-BEING
Support for compassion fatigue, prevention of burnout, workplace culture of care, staff well-being, reduced turnover, and greater sustainability.
A THRIVING COMMUNITY
Mattering for all, stronger intergenerational bonds, and positive experiences, relationships and environments.
Thrive Together Institute trainings
YOUTH RESILIENCE
CAREGIVER WELLBEING
THRIVING COMMUNITY
FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
•The impact of trauma on youth development
•The power of positive childhood experiences
•The neurobiology of stress and regulation
•Understanding compassion fatigue
•Care within constraints: moral injury in caring professions
•Reducing stigma
•Foundations to community resilience
•Understanding Mattering 101
•Reducing stima and shame
PROACTIVE & PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES
•Strategies for relational safety & co-regulation
•Healing-centered engagement in action
•Positive Childhood Experiences in policy and practice
•Resilience strategies for caring professionals
•Collective care and sustainable systems
•Cultivating thriving communities through mattering practices
•Policies and practices for resilient communities
DEEP IMPACT
Coaching circles help teams move from awareness to action—building not just understanding, but integration. A supportive follow up to any workshop offering, coaching circles provide a consistent container of care wherein teams workshop their real-world challenges.
Careback Retreats help caring professionals and caregivers reduce compassion fatigue and experience states of flow, wonder, and awe which foster wellbeing and reduce compassion fatigue. Participants enjoy guided activities that provide respite, education, and community.
Mattering Momentum weaves mattering into the fabric of your school, organization, or community through four deep-dive intensives that center the art and science of seeing, hearing, valuing, and providing opportunities for meaningful contribution. Groups can elect to receive a Maine Mattering Cabin.
Thrive Together Leadership Program
A 10-month leadership program for intergenerational thriving
Maine Youth Thriving’s Thrive Together Institute trains leaders in building resilience for their organizations and the youth they serve.
This selective cohort program provides skill-building for both experienced and new & emergent leaders in their field. Participants gain foundational knowledge in the latest research across MyT’s suite of offerings to strengthen their capacity to achieve positive health outcomes for youth and for their communities.
Built on the understanding that young people’s access to thriving is inextricably connected to whether the adults in their lives are able to thrive too, the Thrive Together Institute’s cohort program helps leaders foster intergenerational thriving – supporting the resilience of young people (birth to launch) AND the caring professionals who are on the frontlines of care. Timely and supportive for those seeking to reduce compassion fatigue and turnover, this unique opportunity to learn with others across the state is led by MyT and features the voices of Maine youth.
