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COTS Created by Connection THE COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER VOL. 35, NO. 2 www.cotsonline.org FALL 2017 Alternative gift ideas COTS created by connection for the holidays Enduring relationships make services, support possible COTS thrives on connection – with and winter: the 10th annual Dee PT SEND A KATHARINE MONTSTREAM guests, with supporters, with community Diaper Drive, 10th annual Hearts to HOLIDAY CARD: Make a minimum $10 partners, and, of course, with volunteers. Soles, 10th annual Coolest Lunch, and donation to COTS in someone’s name, and These relationships are the foundation of 20th annual City Market Tree Sale. we’ll send the recipient a beautiful Katharine who we are – and how we do our work. Montstream card with this message: “A Rita Markley celebrated 25 years at And, this is where we find hope, every generous donation has been made to COTS COTS executive director in September. day, in one kind act after another. in your name. This gift of warmth and shelter And, on Dec. 24, COTS will mark 35 will help families and individuals who are Some of COTS’ strongest connections years, serving people facing the crisis of experiencing the crisis of homelessness are those enduring and long-lasting homelessness in our community. make it through the harsh winter months. relationships, many of which are COTS’ connections are deep and diverse Happy holidays and celebrating anniversaries this year: – and we are grateful for all of them. best wishes for the new Earlier this year was the 20th annual year.” Contact Gillian COTS Walk, and coming up this fall continued on page 3 to order at (802) 864- 7402, Ext. 210 or [email protected]. COTS CELEBRATES 95 NORTH AVENUE COTS and our partner Housing Vermont SHARE COOKIES FOR GOOD: hosted an official “ribbon-cutting” ceremony for 95 North Avenue on April 3, 2017. We were Sugarsnap’s delicious “Cookies for Good” joined by Congressman Peter Welch, Gov. Phil Scott, and Mayor Miro Weinberger to mark the are a “bake sale every day” for COTS: 35 grand re-opening of our program and housing facility following extensive renovations.COTS cents from each $1 cookie sold goes to and Housing Vermont partnered on the capital project to rebuild a permanent home for COTS. Serve the cookies at your holiday the COTS Daystation (See story, Page 3); create 14 permanently affordable apartments; party, business lunch, or send to and renovate COTS’ program spaces for the Housing Resource Center, our homelessness a friend, co-worker or prevention initiative, making them fully accessible and energy efficient. The project was customer. To order, visit made possible through generous support from public and private funders. www.thesnapvt.com, call (802) 861-2951, or email [email protected]. AO GLASS COTS ORNAMENTS: AO Glass has generously created a glass ornament/ sun catcher with COTS’ logo on it. These are available for $20 each at our main office: 95 North Avenue, Burlington (9 am–5 pm, Monday-Friday). For more gift ideas, visit cotsonline.org. www.cotsonline.org COTS HOMEFRONT FALL 2017 1 HomeFront is published twice a year, in March and November, by: COMMITTEE ON 95 North Avenue is now open! TEMPORARY SHELTER PO Box 1616 DAYSTATION WELCOMES GUESTS TO NEW SPACE Burlington, VT 05402 802-864-7402 COTS opened our fully renovated program and housing facility in April. Among the fax 802-864-2612 biggest upgrades to the building was the addition of the new permanent home for www.cotsonline.org the Daystation, our daytime center for homeless adults. Established 1982 “The new space has helped create more positive energy, even on the gloomiest days,” said COTS Peer Outreach worker Ciara Kilburn. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jeff Nolan, Chair The Daystation had moved to multiple temporary locations following a storm in Tom Torti, Vice Chair July 2013 that flooded the program’s previous permanent home. The renovation Debra Royce, Treasurer was made possible through a mix of public and private funding and in collaboration Paul Lekstutis, Secretary Beth Anderson with our community partner Housing Vermont. Sean Collins The new Daystation features many improvements, including an open and bright Catherine Dingle layout with large windows and natural sunlight, as well as smaller conference Laurie Gunn Andrew Hanson room for programming. There is outdoor patio and garden space, spacious kitchen, Michael H. Lipson bathrooms, seating area, dining area, and showers and laundry. Two bunk rooms Jeff Martin are also available for guests who work overnight or are not feeling well. Shelley Richardson Brigitte Ritchie Guests, staff, and volunteers welcome all the new changes, especially the showers Bob Steis and laundry. These were added to the Daystation in direct response to guest Rita Markley, Executive Director feedback received during the project’s planning phase. Guests have shared they now feel more confident, wearing clean clothes following a warm shower as they head to A United Way apartment showings and job interviews. They also are quite pleased the laundry is a Funded Agency free, like all other resources provided by the Daystation. The changes have helped prompt greater engagement by guests, too. The Daystation frequently has multiple programs and activities happening simultaneously: Guests might be reading in one area, while others are playing cards or folding their laundry Editor nearby. You also are likely to find guests using the Daystation’s three computers for Becky Holt filling out job applications or searching for housing. Writers The Daystation, which originally opened more than 20 years ago, is a low-threshold Sian Leach program, focused on providing a safe and warm daytime space, connecting guests Gillian Taylor to housing, services, and community resources, as well as serving a healthy meal Designer to about 50 people daily. Lunch is made possible through the generous help of Lisa Cadieux, Liquid Studio volunteers – from the Lang House, to the Catholic Diocese of Burlington, to Sherpa Foods, to the team from Old Navy, to many, many others. FOLLOW US ONLINE www.cotsonline.org Among these volunteers is the community organization Love & Blessings, which www.facebook.com/COTSonline has been a huge part of the Daystation’s volunteer community this past year. They provide lunch every other week. Over time, they have gotten to know guests and @COTSvt have started celebrating their birthdays with them during their visits. (If you are Pinterest.com/cotsvt interested in volunteering for lunch, visit www.cotsonline.org or email Sian Leach at [email protected].) www.cotsonline.org COTS HOMEFRONT FALL 2017 2 RELATIONSHIPS...continued from page 1 COTS also collaborates with the maybe 2 years old who was living at Vermont Community Garden Network. the shelter,” Jason said. “Every time I Joyce Hagan retired from the COTS The VCGN is committed to growing walked past her with a few more boxes Board last year, after being the longest- healthy and connected communities. of diapers, she would smile and say, serving board member at 26 years. She They work with several COTS sites, ‘Yay, more diapers!’ This young girl was said she was prompted to get involved including our Canal Street Veterans my a-ha moment when I realized just because of her belief that “we all need Housing, to increase garden space and how something so simple can be so very to find ways to support our community to grow and eat fresh, healthy, food with important.” in ways that ‘call’ to us. For me, it was confidence. VCGN Executive Director Sarah Smith Conroy got involved with COTS mission.” Joyce said she most Jess Hyman said: “COTS looks beyond the COTS Walk at the very beginning. connected with that on her visits to the basics of shelter and recognizes She also reads with children at the COTS’ shelters. that healthy communities are built on a Firehouse Family Shelter. For the past foundation of care, trust, and equity.” Hearts to Soles is organized by Jim several years, Sarah has brought her Michelson, MD, an orthopedic surgeon For the past several Valentine’s Days, freshman history students from Rice at the University of Vermont Medical COTS has proudly partnered with the Memorial High School to the Walk. Center, each year. At the event, on the Green Mountain Chorus to deliver Each year, they are by the far the day before Thanksgiving each year, Jim heartfelt messages to community. biggest team in numbers and dollars and his colleagues perform foot exams Part of their charter is to be involved raised. COT is real and provides real on guests, a critical way to detect greater with activities that benefit children, assistance without judgment, “ she said. health issues. The guests are then given seniors, and other community needs. Retired attorney Michael Lipson socks and fitted with new shoes donated The chorus, in addition to frequently first connected with COTS through by a national organization. “Although we performing at the COTS Walk, shares community friends he met as he did help people every day in the course of our a portion of their “Singing Valentine’s” advocacy and legal services work for work at UVMMC, what we do at COTS is fundraisers with us. The barbershop low-income families. Michael also has the purest expression quartets sing for guests and staff, too. served on the COTS board, both in our of our aspirations “We love the staff at COTS, and feel the early days and again now. “This is not to care for our fellow work they do is making a difference,” an honorary board,” he said. “There’s human beings,” said chorus member Neil Schell. Jim said. work to be done, and we do it, gladly Jason Fitzgerald is a dynamo. The and energetically.” dedicated physical therapist started the Lauren Lautenschlager is an account Great Dee PT Diaper Drive 10 years manager at Staples.
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