With the Department of Mental Health still working to resolve prolonged wait times for psychiatric inpatient beds, hospitals have turned to the Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care to learn how to improve services within their emergency departments. One of its...
Roughly 800 homeless Vermonters lost their state-funded motel placements on June 1. The government didn’t collect data on where they went, but service providers have made observations of their own in the months since. The group in question had not met vulnerability...
According to the national advocacy group Lives in the Balance, Vermont’s public schools use restraint and/or seclusion upon 587 children each year. Kids with disabilities comprise the vast majority of cases. Recently, Lives in the Balance released a free documentary,...
Watching the General Assembly’s last-minute scramble in June to figure out how not to kick 2,000 homeless Vermonters out of the motels sheltering them, I thought about all the time that legislators had spent during the winter and spring deliberating over bills that...
Vermont Folklife’s research for In our voices, in our communities, a timely traveling exhibition of portraiture and storytelling with a focus on homelessness, began more than two years ago. When it finally debuted in Burlington this spring, one day after the passage...
