Nossa missão é capacitar adolescentes, jovens adultos e suas famílias para fazer e sustentar mudanças positivas por meio de prevenção, intervenção e serviços de habilidades para a vida.
O ex-governador de Vermont, Jim Douglas, sanciona o H.449 como lei, aumentando o limite de idade dos jovens em lares adotivos de 18 para 21 no Spectrum's Drop-In Center em 2007.
Detail Works is a social enterprise designed to help young people build the soft skills and trade skills they need in the workplace.
The final stage of just about anything you will ever do in life is acceptance. In this particular writing, acceptance came when I decided I wasn’t going to write about what was easy, I was going to write about what I know.
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I was awestruck by the compassion and caring you showed for our youth at the Empty Bowl. I am so grateful that our young people can rely on you to offer a hand when the going gets tough.
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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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Recently, Jack Thurston of NECN visited Detail Works, our new social enterprise. Detail Works is a deluxe car detailing shop that gives job skills and life skills to our youth and empowers them to practice having a job in a supportive environment.
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What follows is a guest blog post written by CeCe Horbat, the Diversity, Equity, & Multiculturalism Coordinator at Spectrum. On May 6th, 2017, we hosted the Youth Leadership Conference at Champlain College. Created by our Multicultural Youth Program, the conference is designed for youth to have fun and learn, while also providing the support they need to …
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