Programs and Services: Prevention
The Basement Teen Center
The Basement is staffed daily by at least two experienced and trained adult workers. Young people play an active role in creating and caring for the teen center space, setting rules, resolving conflicts, and planning and operating programs. The teen center currently employs a teen as part-time Teen Coordinator, who runs an active Teen Council that helps adult staff plan programming and make decisions about center operations. The Basement Teen Center is currently supported by funding from the City of Montpelier, other area towns, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the Vermont Coalition of Teen Centers, resources from the VT Food Bank, AmeriCorps volunteers, and donations from individuals and businesses. The Basement has also received support from the Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation, the Vermont Department of Health, National Life of Vermont, and others. To learn more about the Basement's programs and to get involved, visit basementteencenter.org or contact Nick Connerat 229-9151 or nconner@wcysb.org. Nick and other Basement staff can be reached at the Basement at 223-3877. You can also stop by the Basement to say hello and get a schedule of activities! |
The Basement Teen Center, located in the basement of Montpelier's City Hall, is a substance-free, adult-supervised space for teens to gather, attend workshops, learn leadership skills, and have fun. The BTC provides a supervised space for youth to participate in activities that encourage positive growth. With a full kitchen, computers with online access, video games, ping pong, pool, board games, guitars, pianos, banjos, photography and filmmaking, the BTC has it all. During the school year the BTC is open from 2–6 pm Monday through Thursday, and from 3-10 pm on Friday. During school vacations and summer the BTC is open from 1–5 pm Monday through Friday.
