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Northeast Kingdom Community Action (NEKCA) is an anti-poverty community action agency that helps people in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom meet their basic needs and become self-sufficient. The agency is a partner of the Vermont Department for Children and Families [6] and is primarily funded by federal and state government resources. [7]
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]
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 ...
Vermont schools can now postpone their March school budget votes and rewrite their spending plans after Republican Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill into law on Thursday aimed at addressing soaring ...
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.
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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 ...
Vermont's 1777 constitution was the first in English-speaking North America to mandate public funding for universal education. This requirement was first met by elementary-level village schools with sessions held in the cooler months to accommodate farm work. Most schools educated similar numbers of girls and boys.