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Partnerships

Working Communities Challenge

Mission: To advocate for the health, education and financial stability of Lamoille County Families.

Lamoille County’s Working Communities Challenge (WCC) grant focuses on reducing the barriers to employment that weaken our economy, our community, and our businesses. This grant will strengthen the infrastructure that allows people to access our existing network of workforce resources.

Short Term Rental Survey

The Lamoille Working Communities Challenge conducted a survey of community members regarding information and beliefs regarding the growth of short term rentals in Lamoille County. We hope that our municipalities will find this report useful in beginning their community engagement process around short term rental decisions. 

Lamoille Collaboratives

Each dot below represents the collaboration of several organizations around one issue, or in some cases a category. Hover over any grey circle.

The Working Communities Challenge asks how we can create a strong, sustainable system between our organizations and collaboratives to reduce systemic barriers to employment.

Over the next three years we will increase access to the economy. To do so, we will:
  • Improve collaboration around affordable housing and amplify the efforts of existing housing partners;
  • Develop a sustainable, collaborative system for increasing access to resources;
  • Launch specific, sustainable projects that will build and formalize partnerships between businesses and community partners.
  • Gather qualitative data regarding the experience of BIPOC community members while supporting them in the work.
Our three priority areas:
Housing: 
  • Limiting barriers & requirements (access and eligibility)
  • County-wide approach to zoning solutions
  • Support of housing partners in increasing access to housing
Resource hubs: 
  • Enhance and sustain virtual resource hub
  • Physical resource navigation hubs
  • Embedding social services and resource navigators in accessible places 
Partnerships - formalize system for cross-sector collaboration/business-community: 
  • Certifying employers through training
  • Clear career pathways
  • Recovery Friendly Workplaces
  • Relationship building
  • Working Bridges
The Lamoille Working Communities Challenge Grant:
  • $315,000 over three years.
  • Run by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
  • Backbone partners: United Way of Lamoille County.
  • Local core community partners: Capstone Community Action, Lamoille Housing Partnership, Lamoille Health Collaborative, Lamoille County Planning Commission, North Central Vermont Recovery Center, Jenna’s Promise, Morrisville Afterschool Program, Green Mountain Technology and Career Center, Agency of Human Services, VocRehab, Creative Workforce Solutions, Lamoille Restorative Center, Northern Vermont University, Lamoille Economic Development Corporation, Lamoille County Chamber of Commerce, VT Dept of Labor, Town of Johnson, Salvation Farms, Lamoille clergy, Golden Eagle, Laraway Youth and Family Services, and more.

 

Our Mission

to foster community assets to advance the common good of Lamoille County.


 

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