Graham Kidder, of Jacksonville, Vermont, was selected as this year’s Angels in Adoption Award winner. Graham has served as a Permanency Planning Counselor for the past twenty years and as a Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Recruiter for the last five and a half years. This annual award is presented by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute… Read More »
Lund News
LUND Honors Graduates of its New Horizon’s High School Program for Parenting Students
Lund’s New Horizons Educational Program (NHEP), its secondary school program for pregnant and parenting students, highlighted the accomplishments of its five graduates during its annual Honoring Ceremony on August 12. NHEP provides year-round, state-licensed secondary educational instruction and services to pregnant and/or parenting students. Licensed educators work with students in a supportive, individualized setting that… Read More »
Adoption as Prevention
National Adoption Day, November 21, 2020 Op-Ed: Tricia Coates, President and CEO of Lund Today, 110 Vermont children in foster care are waiting to be adopted. Their names and their pictures hang on our office walls at Lund. We carry their images with us every day as we do the careful work of connecting these… Read More »
Lund’s Board of Trustees Welcomes Four New Board Members
South Burlington – 11/2020 – Lund is excited to welcome four new members to its Board of Trustees. Board Chair Christine Oliver stated, “It is a testament to Lund’s impact in Vermont that we are able to attract these talented community leaders to our Board. We look forward to working with them to advance Lund’s… Read More »
Lund Board Appoints Patricia Coates President and CEO
South Burlington, VT — The Lund Board of Directors unanimously endorsed Patricia (Tricia) Coates to be the next executive leader of Lund, whose mission is to help children and families thrive with programs and services that break cycles of poverty, addiction and abuse. Coates has served as Lund’s interim executive director since December, 2019. Lund is… Read More »
Op-Ed: The Imperative of Treatment and Incarceration Alternatives in the Age of COVID-19
Tricia Coates, Interim Executive Director, LUND For Claire, the pandemic has been harsh on her and her young children. Between juggling care for her children as a single mom already living in poverty before the pandemic, worrying about paying her bills because of reduced hours at work, and isolation from her support network, she sought relief… Read More »
Lots of question, no firm answers…yet.
Life in Vermont is opening up slightly. The Governor’s most recent press conferences have included announcements that some businesses can reopen with physical distancing protocols in place and that childcare programs and summer camps can begin planning for what reopening looks like. What does this mean for Lund? We don’t know most of the answer… Read More »
We love our teachers!
We have always known that the teachers at New Horizons Education Program and Lund’s Early Childhood Education Program are dedicated, compassionate, inventive, and hard working individuals. But during this time when the school buildings have been closed and the programs have shifted in ways we could not have predicted six months ago, they have proved… Read More »
National Month of Hope
In 2018, April was designated the National Month of Hope as part of a national awareness campaign by a non-profit group in Florida called Mothers in Crisis. Their goal was to encourage others to “think hope” and “make hope connections” in order to help families live substance-free lives. The campaign expanded rapidly from a local… Read More »
“From the Field..”
Life in Vermont changed in March 2020. Schools closed, childcares closed, gatherings and events were canceled. People were advised to stay at home and then required to stay at home. Gloves, facemarks, six feet of distance, remote learning, essential workers; the things we had to think about and the words we used changed. All of… Read More »
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