Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness
The Vermont Coalition to End Homelessness seeks to ensure that people living in Vermont have a safe, stable, affordable home, and — if homelessness does occur — it is brief, rare, and non-recurring and those experiencing homelessness are treated with dignity and respect.
Today Vermont Public Radio highlighted the Housing First program and Pathways VT, which provides these services in Vermont. Below is an excerpt from their coverage, which discusses how the program helps to permanently house the chronically homeless while saving a great deal of money in the end: “We have a long history in this country …
In the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine, the financial page highlights the Housing First program. Author James Surowiecki explains how programs like Housing First and Rapid Rehousing have significant economic benefits. At the end of the article he states “The success of Housing First points to a new way of thinking about social …
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. …
