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Our Mission & Vision

Our mission is to empower teenagers, young adults, and their families to make and sustain positive changes through prevention, intervention, and life skills services.

Former Vermont Governor Jim Douglas signs H.449 into law, raising the age limit of youth in foster care from 18 to 21 in Spectrum’s Drop-In Center in 2007.

Riverstone Counseling

WHAT WE DO Here at Riverstone Counseling, our goal is to create an environment that fosters healing and...

Drop-In Center

Located at 177 Pearl St in Burlington, Spectrum’s Drop-In Center is open from 10am-6pm, Monday...

Supportive Housing

These voluntary programs serve about 100 young people each year and are located in downtown Burlington....

Health Center

Pearl Street Youth Health Center Located next door to the Drop-In Center at 179 Pearl Street, the Pearl...

Skills Programs

Spectrum offers several programs that help young people learn to navigate the challenges associated with...

Mentoring

Change both your life and that of your mentee! For just a few hours a month, you can make a difference in the...

Multicultural Youth Program

New in 2015, the Multicultural Youth Program works with teenagers and young adults from diverse...

Detail Works

Deluxe car detailing for social good. Launched in 2017, Detail Works is a social enterprise designed to...

For $10 a day, you can help teenagers, young adults, and their families turn their lives around.

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How You Help

With your help, our youth can have holiday gifts this season!

The holidays can be a tough time of year for our youth. It’s often a painful reminder of all they don’t have.

Your gift makes a difference. #GivingTuesday

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‘Stuck in Vermont’ profiles Detail Works

Eva Sollberger, the video maven behind Seven Days’ Stuck in Vermont series, stopped by our shop to interview Jasmin, our first full-time detailer at Detail Works, our car detailing business. Click on the link below to watch her video.

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(Photo credit: James Buck of Seven Days)
Thank you!

Our Empty Bowl Dinner on October 4th, 2018 raised over $80,000 for our youth! We’re so grateful to everyone who bought tickets, donated food, or volunteered. More photos coming soon!
“Because of you, I am no longer a statistic”

Thanks to supporters like you, Spectrum clients like Ben have hope for a brighter future.

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Spectrum Youth Voices

A group of Champlain College students interviewed some of our youth and made this video. We hope you love it as much as we do.

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