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.
Here is a recent letter from Mark Redmond, our executive director, on his experience visiting Detail Works, our social enterprise that teaches youth the soft skills they need to be successful in the workplace. Last summer I ran into a young woman in our counseling waiting room who works for Detail Works, …
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Spectrum’s Multicultural Youth Program (MYP) was launched in 2015 to support youth who are from immigrant families or self-identify as multicultural. Aden Haji and his family moved here in 2003 when Aden was 6 years old. They were the first Somali Bantu refugees to resettle in Vermont. “Living in Burlington has made me realize the …
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Playing Soccer Builds Leadership Skills for Multicultural Youth “I like coming here and playing soccer–because as a girl, you can show them you can be fast, you can be strong, and you can play with them and be better than them.“ Thanks to our donors, Spectrum is building programs in the Burlington community …
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“The elevator-speech version of my life is that it didn’t go as planned. I didn’t plan to drop out of college after 2 months and return to Burlington, I didn’t plan to sell my childhood home of 15 years without knowing where I would live next…” Tian Berry is doing Spectrum’s Sleep Out next Thursday night to …
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Each year, over 500 people sleep outside in solidarity with youth facing homelessness by participating in the Spectrum Sleep Out. This year we asked one of our returning participants why he chooses to sleep out. David Rose started a Sleep Out team for his company, Rose Computers, years ago and hopes to get other businesses …
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