Portland Adult Education welcomes Anita St. Onge as its Interim Executive Director. St. Onge is an attorney with 15 years of practice and 15 years of experience managing over $11,000,00 in grant-funded projects at USM’s Muskie School. She has worked on problem solving and strategic planning with multiple mental health, social service, and legal organizations, including Maine Justice Action Group, the Immigrant Resource Center of Maine (formerly United Somali Women of Maine), National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, Maine Attorney General, and Portland Police Department. She has also taught at the University of New England and University of Southern Maine. After recently working in Haiti, St. Onge also attended Boston Language Institute to study teaching English as a foreign language. Her broad and deep prior experience supporting women, families, foster youth, and immigrants will enable her to guide Portland Adult Education in meeting the needs of more than 4,000 adult students.
Parent & Family Engagement Manifesto
Parent & Family Engagement Manifesto“When I read the manifesto, it read like a manifesto of love. And that I understand.”
-Portland School Board Member District 4, Stephanie HatzenbuehlerPosted by Portland Empowered on Monday, February 29, 2016
New Partnership with New England Rehabilitation Hospital
Portland Adult Education has recently joined in partnership with New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Portland to train students in a evening/weekend CNA course. PAE is very excited with this new venture as the hospital has a high reputation of patient care. Graduation is July 17th, 2016.
Picture features from left to right: Bonnie Deveau, Director of Quality, Mary Cote and Darlene Greenfield, Human Resources