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Friday’s Workshop at The Three Stallion Inn in Randolph

On Friday, November 8th the More Than A Report Card Workshop will be taking place from 1pm to 3:30pm at The Three Stallion Inn in Randolph. The workshop is free and is offered for all Continuum of Care Committees in Vermont. Each agency will receive a personalized confidential “report card.” The workshop will focus on the following …

Brattleboro Winter Shelter Opens Early Due To High Demand

Last week Brattleboro’s winter shelter opened early due to increased demand. VPR has the details: Officials say the demand for overnight shelter has increased because of federal budget cuts that disproportionately affect the poor. When the Brattleboro Area Drop In center opens at eight each morning Lucie Fortier often finds a crowd of people lined …

America’s Homeless Kids Crisis: Vermont Sees Big Jump

New report from The Atlantic highlights the spike in homelessness among American schoolchildren: The number of homeless students in the United States has hit a record high, according to new data from the Department of Education. The raw numbers are shocking: in the 2011 school year, 1,168,354 homeless children were enrolled in preschools and K-12 programs. Even more disturbing …

Vermont Council on Homelessness Survey Needs Input

The Vermont Council on Homelessness‘ Supportive Housing Workgroup has created two surveys designed to obtain information to better understand and assess the issues and challenges that may arise both for clients and tenants and for housing providers. These surveys directly respond to the Council’s charge to make progress on expanding the capacity of programs to provide voluntary supportive …

November 8: More Than a Report Card Workshop

On November 8th from 1 to 3:30pm a free workshop will be offered for all Continuum of Care Committees in Vermont. The workshop is entitled More Than a Report Card: A Workshop to Assess, Review, and Renew Performance. At the workshop individuals will be working in small groups to address the best practices around: Moving from Transitional to …

Dreams of Home: An Evening of Community Dialogue on the subject of Homelessness

Tomorrow, Thursday, October 25, the Brattleboro Retreat is sponsoring an event with Anna Luepnitz, PhD, who will be discussing her work with the homeless population in Philadelphia as well as Philadelphia’s highly successful program for the homeless called Project HOME. This will be followed by a panel discussion which will include advocates in Windham County …