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Pathways VT Gets Conditional Designated Agency Status

On Friday Pathways Vermont was granted a conditional special services agency (SSA) Designation. Read the press release from the Department of Mental Health below: Department of Mental Health Commissioner Paul Dupre announced today that Pathways Vermont will be given a conditional designation as a Specialized Services Agency (SSA) for Fiscal Year 2015 that begins July 1st. …

Round-Up of Media Coverage of Count Finding Increasing Homelessness in Vermont

Last week the Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness and the Chittenden County Continuum of Care released the results of this year’s Point-in-Time Count of the state’s homeless population. The 2014 count found an over 9 percent increase in those homeless in Vermont compared to 2013. Here’s a round-up of some of the media coverage of …

Vermont Council on Homelessness is Meeting on Thursday

The next bi-monthly meeting of the Vermont Council on Homelessness is this Thursday, April 24 from 2 pm to 4 pm. The meeting will be held in the Pavilion, 4th Floor Conference Room on State Street in Montpelier. Materials to review for the meeting: Tentative Meeting Agenda Working Draft Strategy Recommendations for VCH 2015 Annual Update Section 811 Program Fact Sheet …

Demers Interview: Vermont is Home to Plenty Barely Scraping By

In Vermont the population is about 626,000. One in every ten Vermonters, or 70,000, are classified by the U.S. Census Bureau as living in poverty. The Burlington Free Press recently interviewed Jan Demers, the executive director of Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO), on poverty in the state. Read the full interview here: BFP: …

Shining a Light on Poverty Series – Discussion #4: Feet on the Street Housing Retention

In honor of 50 years of community action in Vermont, the Office of Economic Opportunity is hosting a series of one-hour discussions on poverty every month in 2014. The fourth of these discussions is entitled Feet on the Street Housing Retention. One way of getting to know the folks we all claim we know who live within …

Input Needed for HUD Letter by Thursday, April 24

As those of you who’ve been attending our meetings are aware, the VCEH is preparing to send comments to HUD in regard to the manner in which they do business with us. The changes in priorities that place more burden on local communities and may contribute to less services or less effective services for homeless …