Living Together
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Living Together: Homelessness has many impacts
During my short time working at the Middlebury Office of the Vermont Department of Health, much of my exposure to homelessness has focused on what is most visible…
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Living Together: Don’t stereotype the homeless
Houseless or unhoused gives no respect for the experience or depth of pain of someone who lacks a stable, safe place to live. Homelessness was painful.
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Living Together: Poverty causes trauma in children
In my decades of work with disadvantaged Vermonters, I have seen assistance programs come and go, and funding commitments rise and fall, dependent on the economy, political administrations,…
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Living Together: Figure it out, whatever it takes
While there’s apt to be more than one right answer, I was taught that a crisis, fundamentally, is a critical situation in which the demands exceed the resources…
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Living Together: More housing is key to our future
In the spirit of the Living Together series, we cannot live together unless there are homes for people to live in.
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Living Together: It takes many to help those in need
Twenty years ago — March 26, 2004 — members of the Congregational Church of Middlebury cooked and served the first Friday Night Community Supper.
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Living Together: It takes many to aid the unhoused
Each day in the news, tales of woe involving people who are unhoused can be found. The message is loud. Disguised in intellectual words and politically correct terms;…
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Living Together: Economics tough for unhoused
It’s a common misconception that unhoused people are not working. The truth is quite the opposite; 85% of the families served by John Graham Housing and Services have…
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Living Together: New mental health strategy needed
There is a burgeoning housing crisis in Vermont, as evidenced in our state’s shockingly high rate of unhoused, and even more shocking increase in that rate — an…
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Living Together: Unhoused in need of ‘safe places’
My story is not unique, and the isolation and hopeless feelings of active addiction are not unique. Finding a place to belong was an essential first step in…
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Living Together: Solving the homelessness crisis
While the comfortably housed segment of our communities might consider homelessness to be a blight on society, to the unhoused and housing insecure members of our community, homelessness…