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Our youth programming is off and running again this fall. We welcomed our new Youth Programming Coordinator, Ava Dudani, to the team in August, and she worked with the Student Assistance Professionals at Edmunds and Hunt Middle Schools and Burlington High School to launch after school youth empowerment groups at all three schools. It has been exciting to see young people getting interested in coming up with strategies to improve the health of their community and support their peers.

We sat down with Hunt Middle School’s new Student Assistance Program Counselor to learn more about him and his role at Hunt.

Bringing together top housing providers and health officials, a recent roundtable tackled the unique, complex friction between enforcing smoke-free policies and maintaining housing security. Read the full article to discover how innovative tech solutions and restorative justice models are offering a fresh, hopeful path forward for multi-unit communities.

Vermont's legal landscape just underwent a major shift, with newly signed laws bringing sweeping changes to how tobacco, cannabis, and alcohol are regulated across the state. Read the full article to break down exactly what these legislative updates mean for public health, youth safety, and your local community starting this July.

From rewriting deceptive advertisements to advocating for their health at the Statehouse, local youth are taking a powerful stand against substance misuse. Dive into the full article to see how these inspiring students spent their year building healthy habits, tackling stress, and making their voices heard by lawmakers.

From the halls of the Statehouse to the cafeteria at Edmunds Middle School, Burlington youth took charge of the conversation on health and safety. Whether they were calling out "flavor traps" directly to state senators or leading a room of 35 neighbors in a deep dive into local mental health data, our students are proving that their voices belong at every table.