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icare2 Maine

Team-building with healthy relationships

About Us

In 2014, following the death of a young mother in her hometown, Joy made the decision to turn her grief into action. She knew she couldn't do anything to bring this beautiful woman back to life, but she could help the people left behind; Her 4-year-old daughter, the grandparents who were now going to be raising her, and a community in great need. Together with her childhood bestie, Nancy and Joy co-founded a community group called icare2. Their mission was to ‘help hurting people and their vision was to help ‘save lives.’ They started this group in an effort to support families and schools with drug prevention and education resources as well as treatment opportunities.


The 2022 icare2 Maine Heart Team's new mission is to ‘Build bridges that connect to lasting relationships,’ and the new vision is to ‘Help people feel safe, accepted, and loved.’ Her team focuses on raising awareness and support for grandparents raising grandchildren and the grands that they are raising.

Meet our Founder

Hi, I'm Joy Alley.


In this current season of my life, I get to be a full-time, overtime, all-the-time grandparent, “co-parenting” my first grandchild with my husband and daughter.


I am a perfectly imperfect, beautifully messed up, Jesus follower, doing life in this kray kray world with a heart that "truly" cares.


I have been a Registered Nurse for over 35+ years now. I have had many opportunities to serve families, young and old – from nurturing the new mom as her baby takes his/her first breath to comforting the dying as they breathe their last.


I love babies, sunrises, praise and worship/country music, movie dates, picnics, boating, camping, vacations, and any excuse to gather family and friends to celebrate holidays, milestones, and life.

Our Programs

Law of Ownership

T.E.A.M.W.O.R.K

To acquire a successful life, you must first become a "mirrored-image" of a person of significance.

  • Start with your broken heart.
  • Own your pain
  • “What’s your number?”
  • Turn anger into action
  • Build boundaries without walls
  • Be your best accountability partner
  • Walk beside, not in front or behind
  • Smile, Listen, Help & Thank
  • "kray kray" is okay
  • Get out of your pit and stay
  • You are not alone
  • Would of, should of, could of...but didn't
  • The toxic Mom

Together Everyone Achieves More With Optimism, Respect & Kindness.

  • Healthy communication
  • Meaningful connection
  • Un-offensive-ness
  • Heartfelt truth
  • Courageous confidence
  • FULL of GRACE
  • Passion from within
  • God is greater than any high or low
  • Everyone plays to win
  • Learn from your loss
  • Experience Validates your position of stance
  • "Thumb-tacked"
  • Two wrongs will never make a right

New Life Academy

Learning from and serving the needs of others, 0-106.

  • Grace, gratitude, and Grands
  • If I could have a beer with Jesus
  • Backyard Bible School
  • God Parent Home
  • Storytelling by the numbers
  • "What about me??"
  • Battlefield of the mind
  • Whats love got to do with it?
  • That's important to me
  • You are special
  • Secretariat
  • "That's God"
  • Can't wrap my head around it
  • It's not supposed to be this way
  • Mom Bond Crisis
  • Sonny's Story

The Turning Point

Joy Alley has teamed up with other leading professionals and entrepreneurs, including Best-Selling Author® Jack Canfield, to release the new book, “The Turning Point,” which brings together 20 people sharing their unique stories of impactful growth, and development that has lead to their success.


The Turning Point is now available! Purchase It below or read my chapter.

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Quotation Mark

The most valuable lesson I have learned thus far is that the greatest "position of influence" that I will ever possess is that of being a mother.

Quotation Mark

Our Team Is Here To......

Help Preserve the Legacy of the Maine Lobster!


Help Protect the Heritage of Downeast Maine!


Help Ensure that our children, grandchildren & great-grandchildren WILL have a community to always return home to where they will be SAFE, ACCEPTED, and LOVED.


Help Raise Awareness and Support for Grandparents raising Grandchildren and the Grands that they are raising.

Salt Water..... Heals

We are rebuilding! Our foundation must be constructed with mastered supports; uniquely aligned cornerstones and be centered with precision. There will be no walls or fences, just a wide open inviting space for “experienced relationships” to gather and grow. I don't want your money, I want your heart and I know you are here because you have a need and/or you have the tools to help someone else with their need. Share your experiences & gifts with “icare2 Maine Heart Team” and help us all to grow! Let's “change the game” together and make the world a better place to live for us all.


Let's help God move! Contact us today!

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Partnerships

What you can do, I can not; What I can do, you can not; but together we can do something beautiful for God.

-Mother Theresa

CSA Fisheries & LNA Fisheries

We are a multi-generational family-oriented business providing sea products and mentoring services to people in need of training and encouragement to help create teams that will promote positive and sustainable community growth.

Salty Rebel Co.

A SAHM side hustle that specializes in home-pressed shirts for all family members!