“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
Equitable and Adequate Social Services (Friday PM)
Participants:
Facilitator/Scribe: Eliza Greenhoe-Bergh, Steve Mindell
Lynn Barrett Tom Johnson Steve Darrow Aisha Pandelak Mitt Gilmore Chuck Fish John Warren
Strengths
Dummerston cares- elderly support
Grange community lunches 2.50
Senior group meals on wheels from Brattleboro
Community chest
Caring and sharing
Fire department and rescue and first response
Dummerston emergency management
Dove program-seasonal church
Drop in center-church
Churches
Grange
Library and programs
Community center and programs
Recreation program?
School playing fields
Low and moderate housing
West river transportation
Center church transportation
American legion VA transportation
Selectboard fund for rehabing homes
Miller fund for needy youth
Green mtn camp
Concerns
Lack of community knowledge and communication about services
After school program
Recovery support groups in dummerston
Scouts, 4H, youth group
Senior housing
Senior transportation
Seniors ability to remain at home
Retrofitting homes and adaptive equipment
In town child care
Lack of jobs and housing for young families.
Affordable housing
Energy efficiency
Social service study and planning and action
Increases in addiction issues
Key Issues
1) HOUSING
-affordable
-senior
-young families
-accessible
-cluster
2) ENERGY EFFICIENCY
3) SENIOR NEEDS
4) CHILD AND YOUTH NEEDS
5) COMMUNICATION OF EXISTING AND FUTURE NEEDS AND RESOURCES