ReSOURCE YouthBuild

Mental toughness final RISE challenge has been completed. Our spring cohort of students has officially been inducted to the program. Tool training, site visits with our community partners, jobsite visits, and hikes up the tallest mountain in Vermont - Mount Mansfeild with over a foot of fresh snow have sealed the deal. Let’s go YouthBuild!

Another epic YouthBuild week in the books!

Exploring frozen lake Champlain, more bridge building, art gallery visit with , siding going on the job-site!

This week at YouthBuild!

Construction! Benches! Ice skating! Kitchen cleaning! Mural painting! Oh my!

When our students are not at the jobsite building the duplex, we like to have some fun in the classroom. We’ve been up to a lot of good stuff as of late.

Here are some of our recent endeavors:
- Making and of course testing out riding our new snow skates
- Master engineering bridge building with the help of marshmallows, gumdrops and tape
- Botanical lessons at the UVM Greenhouse
- Whoopie pie making with
- Touring local artist and staff member studio
- Holding democratic elections for our Student Policy Council

Let’s go YouthBuild!

No more having to shovel out the house for us! Roof is on! Windows are in.

The sub freezing temperatures haven’t stopped us and the Youthbuild crew have been troopers. Here’s to warmer times and more affordable housing for our community!

Go Youthbuild!

Truss Day in the books!
With a big push before the holidays,
the lid is ON at the Duplex on 8 East St.
Our trainees are proud of their work to get the framing done and ready to fly the engineered trusses.

Next up: Roof comes on Monday.

Thank you for coming with the support crew and food and warm beverages

Winter has arrived to our jobsite ❄️❄️
We are prepping trusses for crane day next week! 🏗️ 🏠

Second story walls are up and we’re ready for trusses at 8 East St!
Two families will have a roof on their future homes in no time. And we’ll be covered for the winter as our work to build forever affordable homes moves inside ❄️ 😁🧊

Thanks to , Co-Creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender, for coming in to teach us about animation, perspective character drawing, and your role in bringing Avatar to life from vision to form. Your body of work is incredible and inspiring!

We are moving on this duplex! All four walls are up! 😊

More pics from our visit with a couple of weeks ago! Hope y’all are well! Come back soon!

Shoutout to our incredible staff and volunteers! ❤️