Recent News Coverage:
Rosie's Girls in Barre, VT (as part of the Barre Summer Food program) is covered by the Barre/Montpelier Times Argus (7.1.08)
Vermont Works for Women is profiled by Champlain Business Journal (5.2.08)
Step Up to Law Enforcement program covered by The Burlington Free Press (4.4.08)
VWW's Executive Director Tiffany Bluemle and Board Member Lt. Kathy Stubbing are interviewed on VPR's Vermont Edition about getting more women into law enforcement and the Step Up to Law Enforcement program. Click here to go to VPR, then click "listen". (2.6.08)
Step Up to Law Enforcement referenced in TV news piece about recruiting difficulties at the Burlington Police Department. VWW program graduate Erica Schaller has been hired by BPD. WCAX-TV3 (2/1/08)
Modular Home Program article by The Eagle Times (11/15/07) picked up by Fannie Mae's national community development news service (12/5/07)
Women Can Do conference for high school girls is covered by the Times Argus October 12, 2007.
Modular Home Program places second home on its foundation in Springfield, VT, story in the Eagle Times October 2, 2007.
Rosie's Girls in Barre is covered by WCAX-TV3 on July 31, 2007.
Rosie's Girls welding at Kate Pond/Kat Clear's studio in Williston is covered by Eva Sollberger's vlog on Seven Days' website. Click here to see the video on You Tube. Posted July 17, 2007. It became and "Editor's Pick" and has received over 130,000 hits on You Tube. Makezine.com also picked the video up on July 25, 2007.
Rosie's Girls Summer Program in Essex Junction is covered by The Burlington Free Press, "Rosie's Girls learn tech skills", July 11th, 2007.
Vermont Works for Women's Working Women In Transition program is covered by the US DOL Women's Bureau e-newsletter: "Better Jobs Outside Prison Walls" May 24, 2007.
Tiffany Bluemle, Executive Director, has "My Turn" piece "Pay Attention to Next Generation" published in The Burlington Free Press, April 2, 2007. Click here.
Step Up to Highway Construction featured in The Barre Montpelier Times Argus, March 30, 2007. Click here.
Step Up to Highway Construction featured on WCAX-TV3, March 27, 2007. Click here.
VPR "Morning Edition" interview regarding Northern Lights House, August 24, 2006
Home to Prove there is Life After Prison, Vermont Guardian, August 18, 2006
Building a Future Women Inmates Build a Home, Learn Carpentry Skills, Rutland Herald, July 27, 2006
Help Female Inmates Start Over After Release Burlington Free Press Editorial, Friday, May 19, 2006
Construction Program Helps Female Inmates, Burlington Free Press Editorial, Thursday, May 18, 2006
Business People Vermont, May 2006, profile of Northern New England Tradeswomen.
Seven Days Article 11/9-16/05 "Women In Uniform" by Cathy Resmer
Valley News Article 10/18/05 "Welding Metal, Weilding a Chain Saw" by Caroline Lorie
Times Argus Article 8/14/05 " Surge In Female Inmates Worries Officials" by Louis Porter
Burlington Free Press Article 8/17/05 "Time to step up, and become a cop" by Rick Burnham
Valley News Article 8/7/05 "Women's Work" by Jim Kenyon
For more information on VWW's program for incarcerated women [click here]
VWW on a broadcast of EQUAL TIME with host Anthony Polllina
Listen to the broadcast as VWW staff and two Step Up graduates provide perspectives the empowering aspects of the Step Up program.
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