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.
We offer emergency shelter and transitional housing for young people ages 16-24 in Burlington and St. Albans.
Detail Works is a social enterprise designed to help young people build the soft skills and trade skills they need in the workplace.
The house where Nicolette Elias, a victim of intimate partner violence, was found. An Oregon circuit court judge, Amy Holmes Hehn, has been presiding over a contentious custody case. In an editorial in The Oregonian (reprinted here with permission), Hehn tells us how we can change our thinking and end the cycle of domestic violence. On Nov. 10, …
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Recently, Vermont author Chris Bohjalian sat down to talk with Bob and David, members of Spectrum’s mentoring program. They began as mentor and mentee, but now they’ve been friends for 12 years. Bob and David went fishing together, watched movies, and even taught him how to parallel-park. But that wasn’t all. In David’s words, “Bob …
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On Monday, December 8th, Executive Director Mark Redmond was featured on Comcast Newsmakers. He spoke about what makes Spectrum services unique…
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Our Executive Director, Mark Redmond, recently co-authored, with Kate Piper, a letter to the Vermont Legislative Committee on Child Protection. The committee has spent the past few months taking and reviewing testimony on the state’s child protection system. Mark and Ms. Piper, with a combined 53 years of experience in the field of child protection …
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Spectrum’s most recent e-newsletter is now online. Read it here. A letter from Executive Director Mark Redmond is below: Dear Friend, Recently, I was asked by a school superintendent if I remembered Joseph, because he had referred Joseph to Spectrum five years ago for counseling and a place to live when he became homeless. I …
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