Maine Heads to NAD 2026: MeAD Sends Second-Largest State Delegation in the Country
MeAD is sending 5 people to the 58th NAD Biennial Conference in San Francisco — making Maine the second-largest state delegation nationwide, behind only Pennsylvania.
Advocacy, News, Organization
MeAD 2025: What We’re Working On
From emergency alert reform to interpreter workforce development, MeAD has been busy in 2025. Here’s a look at what we’re working on and how you can get involved.
Turn Your Bottles and Cans into Support for Maine’s Deaf Community — Donate to MeAD via CLYNK
Did you know you can donate your bottle and can returns directly to MeAD through CLYNK? Here’s how to do it in just a few steps.
Community, Events, News
Honoring Billy Brackett: MeAD’s Memorial Cornhole Tournament Lives His Dream
Billy Brackett was the first Deaf cornhole player in Maine — and it was his dream to have Deaf tournaments. MeAD is making sure that dream lives on.
ASL Health Science Weekend: An Immersive Signing Experience at Pine Tree Camp — October 16–18
Join Atomic Hands for a weekend of hands-on health science learning through ASL — anatomy, science, and language combined into an overnight immersion experience at Pine Tree Camp in Rome, Maine.
Advocacy, Interpreter Workforce, News
MeAD and New England Partners Launch Legal Interpreter Training Initiative
Deaf people in Maine’s legal system deserve qualified interpreters. MeAD is working to make that a reality through a new legal interpreter training initiative.
Transforming Interpreting in Maine: MeAD’s Role in the TIME Project
Maine has a serious shortage of ASL interpreters — and MeAD is helping lead the statewide effort to fix it. Here’s what the TIME project is, what it found, and what comes next.
MeAD 2025 Biennial Conference Recap: Empowered Health, Vibrant Living
Over 110 Deaf community members gathered in Bangor for MeAD’s 2025 Biennial Conference — three days of health education, advocacy updates, outdoor access, and a banquet show that had hotel staff stopping in their tracks.
MeAD Receives the Spirit of NAD Award at the 2024 NAD Biennial Conference
At the 57th NAD Biennial Conference in Chicago, the National Association of the Deaf presented MeAD with its prestigious Spirit of NAD Award — recognition of our community’s strength and resilience in the wake of the Lewiston tragedy.
Maine’s Lewiston Survivors Take Their Story to New York: MeAD at the RIT/NTID Emergency Preparedness Summit
In June 2024, Matt Webster, MJ Grant, Liz Seal, and Kevin Bohlin traveled to Rochester to share what the Deaf community experienced during the Lewiston shooting — and what emergency systems everywhere must change.