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.
“This isn’t right. We have to give them our money.” This is what ten-year-old Carmella Martone told her mother after seeing firsthand what it is like to be homeless. She had just walked a friend to door of the hotel room where his family was staying because they had nowhere else to go. And she’d …
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Listen in as our Shelter Coordinator, Sarah Shaughnessey, talks about Spectrum’s shelter—how youth hear about the shelter, what is expected of them, what resources are available and how the shelter helps them transition into adulthood. Sarah and her staff work around the clock to ensure youth who stay at the shelter have a warm place …
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