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.
Detail Works is a social enterprise designed to help young people build the soft skills and trade skills they need in the workplace.
We are grateful to EM Pathy, a fourth grader in Essex, for sharing her poem with us. Even through the eyes of a 10-year-old, the enormity of the issue of homelessness is hard to grasp and understand. This poet believes each of us can help in some small way.
Scott O’Neil, one of the Sleep Out participants, shared this thought-provoking message that he sent his co-workers at Dealer.com: Surprisingly I’ve found myself dreading the Spectrum Sleepout. At first it started out as “sure sounds like an adventure” and has progressed to dread for 2 reasons 1) the weather has remained cold 2) this means …
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Annie Cooper, Essex High School parent and organizer of the EHS Student Sleep Out, wrote this blog post about their team’s experience. As of this writing, the group raised $2200 to support homeless and at-risk youth in Vermont. At 5:15 am on Friday, March 28th, with an inch of snow layered over sleeping heads, bags, …
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“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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Schools Show Students Can Change Lives Browns River Middle School has already demonstrated it is full of community-minded students willing to go the extra mile to help a worthy cause by participating in other group fundraising type activities. So it was no surprise that it only took one call to Greg Martin, a Browns River …
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