Thank you for your support of The Community Schools at
Opportunity Farm and Camden. In September, we welcomed
new students to our campuses in Camden and New
Gloucester, and we expanded our Passages Program for
teen parents to three new counties! We are now serving 52
students, all of whom are working toward high school
graduation. All of them have accomplished a tremendous
amount during the first three months of the school year.
Here are a few highlights:

Each of our Residential Program students now has a
part time job in the community

All of our students have completed service learning
projects with local youth and seniors, with local arts
and environmental groups, and with local animal shelters

All of our Residential students are learning American
Sign Language, and recently produced their own sign
language cooking shows

They are all learning to plan and prepare meals on
a budget, and are studying the localvore movement

They have participated in several college campus tours,
and have also gone on hiking, rock climbing and
wilderness camping expeditions

They are writing their own poems, studying documentary
film and attending science lab

They are also participating in weekly creative writing
classes, and working in the art lab at the Center for
Maine Contemporary Art

They are studying math, social justice and diversity
and environmental science

They hosted a Global Thanksgiving at Opportunity
Farm, and a spaghetti supper fundraiser in Camden

During the next semester, they will travel to New York City,
visit more colleges, and host a community coffee house at
Opportunity Farm. They will learn to plant their own crops,
they will clear hiking trails at the farm campus, and they
will continue to work out daily at the YMCA.

All the while they are gaining the skills and experience necessary
to discover their strengths, connect with their families, practice
personal responsibility, and contribute to their communities.
We hope you will join us in supporting this important work.

Thank you,

Dottie Foote, Ph.D., Head of School

$50 provides one month of American
Sign Language instruction for a student

$250 will buy 10 parenting books for
students enrolled in our Passages Program

$500 buys weekly groceries for students
in our Residential Program

$1,200 provides a month of home
visits for a parent and child

$2,500 ensures each of our Residential
Program students can participate in week
long urban and rural Experiential
Learning Expeditions

Thank you to all who have already
given to our annual campaign!