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Office of Economic Opportunity; DCF operates the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, used for short-term placement and long-term treatment of juvenile delinquents. [5] It is Vermont's sole locked juvenile facility. [6] The detention program can serve up to 16 boys and girls, and the treatment program can serve up to 12 boys. [7]
Portrait of Charles A. Dickinson. Kurn Hattin Homes for Children is a non-profit located in Westminster, Vermont, which serves as a donor-supported home and school for boys and girls, ages 6–15, who are affected by tragedy, social or economic hardship, or other disruption in family life.
Later additions to the group were Tamarack Farm (a work camp for 15- to 17-year-olds of all genders), Saltash Mountain (co-ed, focused on hiking trips), Flying Cloud (for 11- to 14-year-old boys, originally borrowing the traditions of the Lakota people but later creating their own system of wilderness living in the manner of cultures from ...
The funding was not restored until 2012, by Governor Peter Shumlin and even this funding was at a fraction of the original grant. [4] During the Vermont Civil Unions debates of 1999 and 2000, Outright Vermont became a target from external and internal Vermont anti-gay groups, including personal threats to the staff and vicious public ...
The list is announced at the annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher Conference, usually in May, [3] and is available at Vermont school and public libraries for children who wish to participate over the next eleven months. The following spring, those children who have read at least five of the thirty books are eligible to vote for the award, with a ...
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As part of the application process, students must submit a letter (in either English, Spanish, or French, depending on the location of the program) to a prospective host family. The letter and a profile filled out by the applicant are used by the local homestay representative to match students with a family. Students apply online. [5]
Today Vermont has five colleges within the Vermont State Colleges system, UVM, fourteen other private, degree-granting colleges, including Middlebury College, a private, co-educational liberal arts college founded in 1800, Champlain College, located in Burlington, is the primary private college of Vermont's largest city, the Vermont Law School ...