So Shines a Good Deed

11:16 | Apr 11th, 2016

In December 1993 I was sitting at home early one morning, drinking coffee and reading the newspaper while still in my sweats, when my work phone rang. A teenage girl with a history of suicide attempt...Show More

06:52 | Mar 10th, 2016

Starting a charter school, from scratch, in about six month's time, seemed impossible to do. What one 11-year-old girl wrote on her application was what kept me going.

04:49 | Feb 16th, 2016

This is about one of the first young men I met at Spectrum Youth and Family Services who in one sentence revealed what so many of our young people believe and feel about themselves.

13:56 | Jan 30th, 2016

I've been director of Spectrum in Burlington, VT since 2003. We work with homeless, runaway and at-risk teenagers and young adults. This is the story of one young woman who had nowhere to live and a...Show More

15:21 | Dec 24th, 2015

It was only my eighth day as the new director of a campus for at-risk teenagers. I walked to my car at the end of the day, ready to drive home, tired, when someone shoved a flyer in my hands that rad...Show More

22:26 | Dec 19th, 2015

I was asked to direct a shelter for homeless teenage males in a high-crime section of New York City. At first I said no....

16:22 | Dec 19th, 2015

My first podcast episode. About one of the first homeless young adults I ever worked with, and how our lives intersected over the years.