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.
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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Colleen Nilsen, Director of Spectrum’s Violence Intervention and Prevention Programs, spoke on Wednesday, September 10th, with Pat Bradley at WAMC Northeast Public Radio in light of recent news coverage of domestic abuse. Nilsen makes clear that the only thing that distinguishes current stories from anyone else’s is that they are publicized. In fact, domestic violence occurs every day, …
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Read this letter from Spectrum’s Executive Director, Mark Redmond, about the impact of your giving. There are many reasons why the media is full of bad news these days. But one of the reasons is that some of the best news often comes in the shape of something ordinary. A few weeks ago, I was …
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Jeetan Khadka is one of our staff at Spectrum, and he is also one of the key organizers of Diversity Rocks, a multicultural youth group based in Burlington. Diversity Rocks put together a 3-minute video featuring young Vermonters from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds celebrating the attributes that both unite and differentiate them. The video won …
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Scott O’Neil, one of the Sleep Out participants, shared this thought-provoking message that he sent his co-workers at Dealer.com: Surprisingly I’ve found myself dreading the Spectrum Sleepout. At first it started out as “sure sounds like an adventure” and has progressed to dread for 2 reasons 1) the weather has remained cold 2) this means …
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