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Greetings from Barre AHS
 
Thank you for visiting our Barre AHS website. In 2008, we plan to focus our energy in several areas that are of concern to all of us - Housing, Women and the Criminal Justice System, Transition Youth and Integrated Children’s Systems. We’ll do our best to keep you informed as to the results we’ll try to achieve and how we’re doing in relation to those results. We’ll let you know who’s working together to solve these important issues and, more importantly, how you can help.
 
In addition to these important initiatives, we’ll continue to spend time on workforce development and the 4 key practices (holistic service, quality customer service, strength-based approaches and results orientation), emergency planning, transportation, hunger and health care.
 
Feel free to contact us with your thoughts and comments – we’d love to hear from you.

 
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Don Mandelkorn, Field Director
Don.Mandelkorn@ahs.state.vt.us
802-479-7594
Cindy Miller, Field Services Specialist
Cindy.Miller@ahs.state.vt.us

We've designed a plan to reduce the rate of incarceration for women and to develop strategies to successfully support women returning to the community. 

This strategy brings all of our state eligibility services to women while they are still in jail.  The goal is to initiate the eligibility and application process so when the woman is released, it can be as little as hours in which benefits can be delivered rather than weeks.  Having benefits in place upon release will greatly support the woman's effort to successfully re-enter community and family life.

The Deter project is designed to provide substance abuse/mental health assessments for women while still in jail but on the verge of release.  The Deter project also provides a service coordination component and peer support to assist all women eligible for the Deter project.

The expanded interagency agreement is intended to assure that all eligible children have access to a coordinated services planning process when necessary.  Our local effort since the implementation of the expanded agreement has been to enhance our professional development opportunities amongst our local staff who serve children and youth.

"The Mission of the Vermont Military Family & Community Network is to develop and maintain a multi-group community network amongst the community, government and private sectors that creates an awareness of programs and provides services to all returning service members and their families." 

As a national learning site through the Casey Family Programs Breakthrough Series, our local team is developing strategies  to achieve educational stability and improve the educational outcomes for children and youth in out of home care.  The Breakthrough Series uses a model for rapid systems change relying on incremental, finite and smaller ideas for change.

The Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger and the Northfield Savings Bank, have initiated a collaborative within Washington County who's mission is to end childhood hunger in our community.  This campaign will provide our community with an understanding of existing anti-hunger services and provide stakeholders with the expertise and support that will enable us to address local hunger issues in a more comprehensive and systemic fashion.

  • Emergency Preparedness Planning