Spectrum Youth and Family Services

Brad arrived at Spectrum at age eighteen.

Spectrum Youth and Family Services is in Burlington, Vermont, and I am the executive director, and we work with homeless youth.

Brad's parents divorced when he was a child, and he had been raised by his mother.

Brad and his mother had trouble getting along until it got to the point where, as he put it, "I needed a break from her, and she needed a break from me." He showed up at our drop-in center in Burlington.

Yes, the Empty Bowl, October 7th at the Davis Center.

You go to SpectrumVT.org, you can get tickets.

So this is, I think, our 20th year.

I kind of lost track.

Goes to about 7.

If they can't make it, but they still want to contribute to a great cause with Spectrum, how do they do that?

They can go to SpectrumVT.org, Ways to Give.

But some people have said, Mark, I can't go to the event, but I'll pay for a ticket.

Um, it's...

I, I can't-- I know it's a constitutional right to live on the sidewalk, but, uh, Mark Redmond at Spectrum says, I mean, he's the most liberal, commie, Catholic activist I know.

He said, "We have to scoop these people up and medicate them, and, uh, get them in the mental health line and the drug rehab line and the housing line, et cetera, et cetera." This is thorny.

Um, tell us, take us inside your conference room in the mayor's office when you decided to break up the Sears Lane homelessness encampment.