Policies need to center women of color Vermont Works for Women has launched a social media campaign to shed light on the economic disparities Black women experience, elevate policies and practices that focus on improving economic outcomes for Black women and gender non-conforming individuals, and amplify the voices of women… Read More
By Heather Newcomb, VWW Program Manager It’s not a surprise that COVID-19 has caused the majority of us to adjust how we accomplish our work. Vermont Works for Women (VWW) is no different, and some of our changes due to COVID-19 have been in how we serve our justice-involved women… Read More
By Monica Chapman, VWW board member A month into the initial stay at home order, I scrolled through my social media to see some friends posting about thriving in the remote learning world. They had “never felt more bonded to their children” and they “wish that this could be the… Read More
Participants in Trailblazers: Women in Construction Trades program graduated on Aug 4, receiving their certificates from Program Manager Missy Mackin. On the rainy evening of August 4 at the Carpenters Local training facility in South Burlington, five women graduated from VWW’s most recent Trailblazers: Women in Construction Trades program. Read More
Get to know our amazing staff through VWW’s 2-minute Weekly Quick Tips, where staff will showcase tools, skills, fun activities they are doing at home while we all social distance and serve our community remotely. Mindy Wong, VWW Development and Grants Coordinator 8/7/2020: With the many collective traumas that… Read More
By Nell Carpenter, Youth Program Manager Every week of Rosie’s Girls summer camps we pack up our tools, PPE, art supplies and hardware into a truck and bring it to our host Tech Center for that week. This is a pretty well-known experience amongst those involved with Rosie’s Girls and… Read More
8/25/2020 update: The weekly discussion panels are on hiatus, until the Monday, after Labor Day weekend. 7/2/2020 update: Throughout June, VWW virtual discussion panels have tracked the changing landscape of work in Vermont as we adapt to the “new normal.” Guests included James Moore of SunCommon, Caitlin Goss of… Read More
Welcome to WHAT’S IN ROSIE’S TOOLBOX? inspired by Rosie the Riveter and our beloved Rosie’s Girls program! Here at Vermont Works for Women, our Rosie’s Team was starting to miss learning about tools and how to use them in our programs, so we decided to go virtual. This series… Read More
By Caroline Keller, Data and Evaluation Coordinator, with contributions by Rachel Kauppila, Employment and Career Specialist In April 2020, Vermont experienced a dramatic increase in unemployment over the month from 3.1% (10,523 people) to 15.6% (54,490 people), the highest level of unemployment measured in Vermont. In other words, unemployment increased… Read More
By Heather Newcomb, Women’s Program Manager As we all learn to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, for some it has meant release from incarceration ahead of schedule. Since mid-March about 60 women have been released from Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility (CRCF), the only women’s facility in Vermont. For the women… Read More