LEWISTON — Lewiston-Auburn hasn’t seen the kind of hate crime like that in Charlottesville, Va., where a white supremacist drove a car into a crowd of people Saturday. But there has been an increase of ugly words intimidating immigrants since Donald Trump was elected president in November, YWCA Executive Director Kathy Durgin-Leighton said. To counter […]
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Roots of Green Dot Lewiston-Auburn
LEWISTON — The beginnings of Green Dot Lewiston-Auburn movement started from a group of women meeting at the home of Cindy Elias in Auburn last November. “We noticed reading the Sun Journal and hearing from friends there has been an uptick in hate incidents,” Joan Macri, an organizer, said. So, a group of women calling […]
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First bystander intervention instructor training to be held at LPL
LEWISTON — The YWCA Central Maine, Lewiston Public Library and Lewiston-Auburn’s Community of Kindness are partnering with Green Dot, an international leader in violence prevention, to provide a four-day bystander intervention instructor training, designed specifically for the Lewiston-Auburn community. Lewiston-Auburn will be the first community in the United States to offer a train-the-instructor program that […]
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Training offered on dealing with hate threats, behaviors
LEWISTON — The YWCA Central Maine and Community of Kindness, an informal network of volunteers working to find ways to make the community safer, are partnering with an international leader in violence prevention, Green Dot etc., to offer bystander training for area businesses and organizations. This partnership will conduct focus groups across the community in […]