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.
Community
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.
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.
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.
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.
“It Couldn’t Happen Here”: Maine’s Deaf Community Takes Lewiston Lessons to the National Stage at ADARA 2024
At the 2024 ADARA Conference in Atlanta, Sitara Sheikh, Terry Morrell, Tristen Evah Hellewell, and Kristine Gile presented on the mental health and systems failures the Deaf community experienced in the aftermath of the Lewiston mass shooting.
Advocacy, Community, News
When Emergency Systems Fail the Deaf Community: MeAD’s Lewiston Response
When Lewiston became the site of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, MeAD mobilized immediately — coordinating 32 interpreters in 48 hours to serve our community in crisis.