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 attempts had just run from our residential program

Ep. 6 So Shines a Good Deed "I Am Not Dumb"

Mar 10th, 2016 6m 52s

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.

Ep. 5 So Shines a Good Deed "On My Own My Whole Life"

Feb 16th, 2016 4m 49s

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.

Episode 4 So Shines a Good Deed - Resilience and Relationship

Jan 30th, 2016 13m 56s

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 asked to stay in our shelter. We almost didn

Episode 3 So Shines A Good Deed - Rodney King

Dec 24th, 2015 15m 21s

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 radically changed what would transpire for the