We bring the community together to create lasting solutions for a brighter tomorrow in Northwest Vermont.
Through our networks, partnerships and strategic initiatives, we are actively improving the lives of our families, friends and neighbors within Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle Counties. Will you join us?
100% local means that our community defines our priorities.
We make real change in the lives of our neighbors by focusing on the unmet needs most important to—and told to us by—our community. We target our community investments towards what our neighbors need, when they need it. From a community-wide study, we identified our neighbors’ highest priorities.
Our 5 key strategies:
Reducing Substance Misuse
Through prevention, eliminating barriers to treatment and supporting recovery.
Fostering Financial Stability
Access to support, resources and workplace innovations help people get and keep stable employment.
Meeting Basic Needs
With emergency shelter, affordable and alternative housing; access to healthy food; reducing barriers to transportation.
Promoting Mental Health
With crisis services focused on prevention, wellness, and ensuring access to mental health treatment.
Supporting Families
Building skills, knowledge and access to resources supports the development and well-being of families of all ages.
“As recovery coaches, we support people and we offer all these different routes of recovery, all these different paths for people where they possibly wouldn’t have known that these options existed in the past.”
Cam Lauf Executive Director at Turning Point Center of Chittenden County and person in recovery
The problems facing our region are complex. They are issues that no single organization or individual alone can solve—real change is possible when nonprofit, public and private sectors work together.
That’s the power of #LivingUnited
United Way of Northwest Vermont***September 21, 2022
