Vermont Roots and Wings Alliance

The mission of Vermont Roots and Wings Alliance is to improve the outcomes of Treatment Courts in Vermont by providing support for basic needs and access to resources that will assist participants suffering from the impact of systemic poverty, generational trauma, and substance use disorders by helping remove the barriers to participating in Treatment Court.  Additionally, we will increase awareness and elevate support for treatment courts through community outreach and legislative advocacy. 

Our call: outcomes can be dramatically improved, so long as basic life needs of participants are met, program quality is maintained and equitable access to Treatment Court is realized statewide. The participants of treatment court are disproportionately underserved, with unmet needs rooted in multiple social determinants. Each has the potential to achieve anything they work for, develop personal agency, and redirect the lives of they and their family units through Vermont's Treatment Court dockets - not incarceration.