Bring your (clean) clothing to this workshop to learn mending basics!
We’ll be on hand with supplies and information to help you learn to fix your own clothes in a social setting. We don’t have tools on hand for making repairs to every clothing item, but will be happy to help you brainstorm ideas.
For all ages from tweens to adults. Questions? Email nlichtenberg@comlib.org
Is your student in need of support preparing for the ACT or SAT? Join Richelle Jones, experienced tutor and former Greenwich (CT) Board of Education staffer, for study hour with tutoring support on Thursday afternoons. Some materials will be provided, but students are encouraged to bring work books, computers or smart phones for this study hour.
Thursdays, October 17 to Dec. 12*, 4:30-5:30 at The Community Library.
*No study group on October 31 or November 28.
Free, and drop-ins are welcome!
Is your student in need of support preparing for the ACT or SAT? Join Richelle Jones, experienced tutor and former Greenwich (CT) Board of Education staffer, for study hour with tutoring support on Thursday afternoons. Some materials will be provided, but students are encouraged to bring work books, computers or smart phones for this study hour.
Thursdays, October 17 to Dec. 5*, 4:30-5:30 at The Community Library.
*No study group on October 31 or November 28.
*The December 12 meeting has been cancelled.
Free, and drop-ins are welcome!
In collaboration with the I Have A Dream Foundation of Idaho, The Community Library welcomes Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia.
This program will be live streamed and can be viewed on The Community Library’s LIVESTREAM page during and after the event.
Alisha’s story is a reminder to us all that there are paths to overcoming adversity and the power of education in our children’s lives. Alisha was in Portland, Oregon’s first “I Have a Dream” Foundation class. She faced plenty of adversity as a young child and with hard work and support from IHDF-OR throughout elementary school, middle and high school, Alisha went onto receiving a scholarship to Stanford University, where she received her Bachelor of Science, then went on to becoming an M.D. from The George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a four years of training in psychiatry and a fellowship in addiction medicine, at Oregon Health Sciences University. She will soon be starting as an Associate Professor at Harvard University this Spring.
Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, MD, author of Training for Change: Transforming Systems to be Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive and Neuroscientifically Focused. Currently, she is executive director of Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Avel Gordly Center for Healing and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Moreland-Capuia is also a Commissioner for Prosper Portland, serves on the board of the Oregon Historical Society, an appointee to the Oregon Health Policy Board Healthcare Workforce Committee, a former Mayoral appointee to the Community Oversight Board, and a former appointee to the Governor’s Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs. She is also the Co-Founder of The Capuia Foundation, whose mission is to build a sustainable economy through healthcare, education and agriculture in Angola.
Dr. Moreland-Capuia will soon begin her role as Director of the Program for Culturally and Trauma-Informed Community Outreach, within the Division of Depression and Anxiety, and as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Is your student in need of support preparing for the ACT or SAT? Join Richelle Jones, experienced tutor and former Greenwich (CT) Board of Education staffer, for study hour with tutoring support on Thursday afternoons. Some materials will be provided, but students are encouraged to bring work books, computers or smart phones for this study hour.
Thursdays, October 17 to Dec. 12*, 4:30-5:30 at The Community Library.
*No study group on October 31 or November 28.
Free, and drop-ins are welcome!
In collaboration with the St. Luke’s Wood River Foundation, The Community Library presents Piers Kaniuka, co-author of Real People, Real Recovery: Overcoming Addiction in Modern America.
The opioid epidemic is laying waste to America. Overdose deaths have decimated a generation and lowered overall life expectancy. Between Big Pharma, the war on drugs, and ineffectual treatment, addicts and their families face an uphill battle in getting the help they need. But there is a way out! Noted recovery professionals Eric Spofford and Piers Kaniuka provide some much needed hope. They describe how they beat opiate addiction and went on to help thousands of addicts find recovery. Along the way, they discuss the root causes of the current opiate epidemic, which include dislocation, the prison industrial complex, practices of the pharmaceutical industry, stress, racism, poverty, and much more. In addition, Real People Real Recovery explains the difference between recovery and sobriety and what actually constitutes success in treatment.
**Special program start time is 4:00 pm**
Piers Kaniuka is Director of Spiritual Life at Granite Recovery Centers. He has worked in the field of addiction for over twenty years and is an expert in how to best utilize holistic practices in the treatment of addiction. Piers is the former chair of the department of Transpersonal Psychology at Burlington College and is a core faculty member in the Contemplative Spiritual Direction certificate program at the Alcyon Center in Seal Cove, Maine. He is also a co-founder of the Liberation Institute, a non-profit dedicated to training incarcerated men and women to become yoga instructors. Piers has Master’s degrees in Theological Studies (Bangor Theological Seminary) and Counseling Psychology (Antioch University, New England).
