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.
“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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This past winter, Burlington’s first Warming Shelter opened. This meant that homeless adults, even if they were under the influence of drugs or alcohol, had a place to sleep out of the cold. Every night, all 28 beds were full.
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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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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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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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