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They join a growing number of staffers collectively bargaining with their Vermont hospital employers.
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These Vermont orgs create safe spaces for Black & rural youth with substance misuse prevention fundsAccording to the Mayo Clinic, providing supervised activities and support for teens can reduce risk of drug use.
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New research from the University of Vermont and University of Maine shows that while a large percentage of residents already gardened, fished, hunted, foraged and raised backyard animals before the COVID-19 pandemic, more people, especially those experiencing food insecurity, picked up those activities and improved their food security 9-12 months later.
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The Vermont Department of Health wants every K-12 school in the state to add one more thing to their emergency kits: naloxone, the overdose-reversal drug best known by the brand name Narcan.
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Northern Vermont will experience a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. We created a map to show exactly what the path of totality covers.
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In 2014, Shumlin made the surprising move to devote his entire State of the State address to Vermont’s opioid epidemic. It was a watershed moment that captured national attention and kicked off a statewide push to expand addiction treatment. A decade later, much of Vermont’s progress has unraveled amid more powerful drugs and record numbers of fatal overdoses.
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COVID cases are at low levels throughout the state, but they are slightly rising. And a new variant, JN.1, has just been added to the mix.
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Residential care facilities in Vermont — struggling with staffing shortages and historically low Medicaid reimbursement rates — are closing at an alarming rate.
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Vermont Public recently did its own analysis of what residential and assistant living facilities are available in Vermont, how many beds they have, what they cost and how much Medicaid-funded care — if any — they provide.
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Since the latest vaccine became available in September, some Vermonters who want a vaccine haven’t been able to get one, especially people 65 and older, and families with young kids.