Program areas at Umbrella of St Johnsbury
The advocacy program provides confidential 24-hour/day support for survivors of gender-based violence and their children. In our work, the client leads and we support them in any way needed including providing legal advocacy, offering a variety of housing options and connecting to resources related to parenting, substance use recovery, healing from trauma, and more.
Kingdom child care connection: family based services focuses on connecting families to child-care and strengthening family relationships. Kingdom child care connection assists families in caledonia and southern essex counties to receive subsidized childcare, appropriate child care referrals and specialized childcare placement support. The family room offers supervised visitation for families throughout the northeast kingdom.
Cornucopia: economic empowerment programming supports women with significant barriers to employment. The cornucopia program, and our social enterprise, dolcetti, each wrap around women to engage them in building job readiness skills while helping them to address challenges in their lives so they are able to move towards financial self-sufficiency.
Social change: social change work focuses on prevention education and initiatives in schools and in the community that aim towards preventing gender-based violence. Strategies include providing evidenced-based curricula to youth, parents, and community professionals on preventing gender-based violence as well as youth leadership programming.