Welcome to the Emergency Action Network. For 2022, we have introduced a new system for referrals! We ask that Brunswick school department staff please use our new, in-building referral system by contacting the TEAN point person in your school:
Kate Furbish – Abby Silvio
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Amanda Carson
BJHS – Catherine Nein
BHS – Stacey Vannah
TEAN also welcomes community referrals from social service agencies or from any of our other referring partners. Referrals should be emailed to emergencyactionnetwork@gmail.com. If you are a Brunswick community member in need of TEAN’s help, please contact your caseworker or school counselor to request a referral on your behalf.
If you are a community member or public school employee looking for information about support services in our area that are outside of TEAN’s scope, the scope, this guide (which is a project of Support Brunswick and not affiliated with TEAN) is a good place to get started.
The Emergency Action Network (TEAN) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation formed by Brunswick community members to help support the children and families in our community. Too many families in our community are struggling to meet their most basic needs. Our goal is to identify those needs and harness the resources of the community to support them.
Our process is simple. As soon as a need is identified in the Brunswick student population we will post the request to our Facebook group of TEAN Allies and ask for help from the community. We typically are asking for a specific item that is needed by one or more of our students. These items are then collected at the superintendent’s office, or via our volunteer network, and discretely distributed to students by school-based administrators.
♦ A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT WE DO♦
∴ A local mobile home park lost water as a result of its water wells drying out; many residents were left without drinking water. TEAN responded to the community need by soliciting water from the Poland Spring Water company. The company donated 4 pallets of water that was distributed to the mobile home park residents. TEAN provided a moving truck to transport water to the mobile homes and received volunteer help from the Brunswick fire department, which graciously carried and distributed out the water pallets to the residents. Through TEAN’s connections, and the generosity of the Poland Spring Water company and the Brunswick fire department, an urgent need in the Brunswick community was met.
∴TEAN through the years has organized a school supply drive, where school supplies: pencils, pens, books, rulers, binders, among other things are donated. These items are then distributed out to students who need them at the beginning of the school year. This is one of the many ways TEAN collaborates with local schools to support children in partnership with the Brunswick community. TEAN also organizes other drives, such as the winter boots and coats drive.
The Emergency Action Network (TEAN) 