Notre mission est de donner aux adolescents, aux jeunes adultes et à leurs familles les moyens d'apporter et de maintenir des changements positifs grâce à des services de prévention, d'intervention et de compétences de vie.
L'ancien gouverneur du Vermont, Jim Douglas, a promulgué la loi H.449, augmentant la limite d'âge des jeunes placés de 18 à 21 ans au centre d'accueil Spectrum en 2007.
Detail Works is a social enterprise designed to help young people build the soft skills and trade skills they need in the workplace.
Our executive director recently received a note from a mom whose son is consumed with his addiction. “I myself feel very guilty and a failure as parent because I knew this could happen to him. I talked to him about it several times…” she wrote. “But talking and a good family weren’t enough.” You can read Mark’s response in the …
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This spring, the Associated Press Stylebook removed the word “addict” as a noun. This change is important for humanizing people with drug addictions. “When you call someone an addict, it reduces them to just that,” said Mark Redmond, our ED. “But it’s just one element of their being — they’re a mother or a brother …
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“We as a culture attach shame to drug addiction. What would it be like if we didn’t?” Melissa Deas, High Risk Interventionist for Spectrum in Addison County, VT shares what we must do in order to become a more responsive community.
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