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.
When I learned that PC Construction was pulling together a team to participate in Spectrum’s annual Sleep Out, I had to get involved. . . . The soggy ground, rain, and temps in the 20s drove home the conditions so many of our homeless youth are exposed to year-round.
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Our Executive Director, Mark Redmond, spoke on Friday, February 6th at the TEDx Burlington event. Mark told a story about how he’d received an email from someone asking, “I am going to be teaching a parenting class at a local school. What advice would you give to a room full of parents?” His answer also …
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“To be honest, I couldn’t guarantee if I’d be alive or not.”
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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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Chelsea was homeless, had dropped out of high school, and was facing a possible prison sentence. Read her story about how she found help at Spectrum and turned her life around.
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