Find Your Place at the CCLC

For High School Students

Cobscook Experiential Program

Get outdoors, engaged in service-learning projects, and learn directly from people in your community while building leadership, outdoor, academic and personal skills.

For Community

Community Education and Events

The CCLC offers a vast array of programs, events, and opportunities to the people of the Cobscook Bay region and beyond. 

For Educators

TREE: Transforming Rural Experience in Education

TREE seeks to develop a model for transforming schools in rural communities like ours, and to better support the children and families who live here.
 

For Guests

Heartwood Lodge

Heartwood Lodge is a unique facility perfect for retreats, conferences, trainings, events and more. The CCLC also has many indoor and outdoor spaces available for a variety of events.

Welcome to the CCLC

The Cobscook Community Learning Center (CCLC) began in 1999 when a group of people in easternmost Maine joined together to find ways of improving life in this region. Together, we envisioned a hub of educational opportunity. The CCLC is that hub. Our mission is to create responsive educational opportunities that strengthen personal, community, and global well-being.

The CCLC is about community wellness. And that means artistic, physical, economic, ecological and educational wellness. We operate with the values of love, respect, humor, and creative bold adventure. Designed as a tool for social change, the center responds to community needs.

No matter what people come here to do – take yoga, pick up new computer skills, plant a garden, get a high school diploma, start a business, or learn to play piano – they do it all regardless of their ability to pay, and in the context of an enriching, supportive community. 

Stop by anytime. The coffee is on.

News and Updates

Cobscook Outing Club practiced climbing technique at WCCC's climbing gym. Thanks to the @wcccoac staff for the great instruction. #cobscookexperientialprogram #teensclimbing #challengebychoice
Congratulations to Pat Mallar, CCLC's dedicated and detailed finance manager, on your well-earned retirement. It was so much fun to surprise you today with this much-deserved party!!! #nutsandbolts #patdough #retirementparty
AmeriCorps VISTA members from around the state have been at the CCLC this week doing their spring training! @americorpsvistafcs #madeinamericorps @goodwillnne
Students had an outstanding hour of skiing today. The deep snow offered safe conditions for practicing x-c skiing down hills. Our students are really getting the hang of this! #cobscookexperientialprogram #teensonskis #experientialeducation #gettingvitamind☀️
Best. Pizza. Night. Ever. Students ran the kitchen. Almost 150 came together to support our high school crew, eat together, and enjoy music with @fremontstreetstringband. Thank you so much, everyone. That was a blast. #cobscookexperientialprogram. #fremontstreetstringband #teenscooking #ownyoureducation
Cobscook students made dough today for our Pizza Night Fundrsiser tomorrow. It's going to be such a fun night. Hope you can join us. #cobscookexperientialprogram #teensmakingpizza #homemadepizza #learningtocook
What a great crowd for today's Intro to Maple Syrup Making class at CCLC. Fourteen folks (including a strong contigent of young people) joined teacher @karamccrimmon for a morning of learning. What fun! Maybe we'll make this an annual event. #maplesyrup #maplesyrupseason #cobscook #gettoknowtrees #maple
CCLC pottery students enjoy a variety of wheel work and hand building skills in the beginner to intermediate class. In these photos, students build fairy houses and treasure boxes. Click the link in our profile to register for our March and April class! 👉 @thecclc

Hand Thrown CCLC Mugs

Receive a gift for supporting our Scholarship Fund

Donate to our Scholarship fund, and receive a beautiful handmade mug! 

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