{"id":2844,"date":"2019-01-08T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2019-01-11T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T21:57:17","slug":"hope-works-board-replaces-entire-staff-with-bhs-guidance-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/08\/hope-works-board-replaces-entire-staff-with-bhs-guidance-department\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPE Works Board Replaces Entire Staff With BHS Guidance Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BURLINGTON &#8211; After <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a dramatic mass resignation at HOPE Works (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sevendaysvt.com\/OffMessage\/archives\/2019\/01\/04\/hope-works-staffers-resign-to-protest-leadership\" target=\"_blank\">a dramatic mass resignation at HOPE Works<\/a> sexual assault support center, the board of the organization has swooped in to fill the staffing shortages with <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2017\/08\/11\/burlington-school-counselors-claim-disrespectful-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the former members of the BHS guidance department (opens in a new tab)\">the former members of the BHS guidance department<\/a>. Concerns about a disruption to services provided are unfounded, according to the board, and many are excpecting a seamless transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re very excited to have the guidance staff joining us,&#8221; said interim operations manager Susan Leonard. &#8220;Their experience in crisis management will be invaluable, and when they all publically left BHS in 2017 they complained of erratic behavior, bullying, and general incompetence, so we think they&#8217;ll fit right in here at HOPE Works.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guidance staff themselves say they are happy to have work again, and are not worried about the potentially choppy waters they are sailing into. &#8220;We&#8217;ve worked under the Burlington School Board, and specifically Superintendent Yaw Obeng,&#8221; said new HOPE Works employee Karen Love. &#8220;It obviously can&#8217;t be any worse than that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leonard says she is &#8220;thrilled to be working with a group of women who are used to not having their voices heard and their concerns dismissed,&#8221; and is looking forward to a bright future at HOPE Works up until the day she is quietly replaced by someone who is &#8220;better friends with the board.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>BURLINGTON &#8211; After a dramatic mass resignation at HOPE Works sexual assault support center, the board of the organization has swooped in to fill the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/08\/hope-works-board-replaces-entire-staff-with-bhs-guidance-department\/\" title=\"HOPE Works Board Replaces Entire Staff With BHS Guidance Department\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[11],"coauthors":[91],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burlington","tag-burlington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/TWFI-2019_01_08.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-JS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2864,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}