King Street Center

What happens when the Vermont Green FC teams visit King Street Center? A whole lot of fun. ⚽🎉

Yesterday, players joined youth from across our programs for gym games, friendly competition, and plenty of smiles. Thanks for spending the afternoon with us!

Be sure to catch our Mentoring Program on the field at halftime tonight at the men's game as we share the impact of mentorship with the Vermont Green community. 💚

Stone Soup with Preschool 🍲✨

Our preschoolers have been exploring cooking lately, which quickly inspired lots of soup-making in our outdoor mud kitchen. This week, we brought the classic story "Stone Soup" to life, filling the classroom with delicious aromas, teamwork, and plenty of excitement as everyone helped create something together. 💛

DISCLAIMER: We recognize the broth-to-ingredient ratio may have been slightly off. Our enthusiasm for chopping vegetables was extremely high. 😂🥕🧅

Our people 👑💛✨

From circle time in early ed to career exploration in high school, these are just some of the humans behind the magic at King Street Center. Youth development work is joyful, exhausting, meaningful, challenging, and transformational all at once, and this incredible team meets that work with compassion, humor, creativity, and heart.

To our teachers and afterschool professionals: thank you for creating spaces where youth feel safe, seen, supported, and inspired to grow. Our community is stronger because of you. 💛

Green Up Day with mentoring 🌎👑

This weekend, our mentors and mentees showed up for the community, rolling up their sleeves to help clean up our shared spaces while deepening the connections that make this work so meaningful.

Along the way, there were moments of discovery, too. One mentor, Alan, introduced his mentee Issa (1st 📸) to garlic mustard greens and foraging fiddleheads, and even spotted a rare purple trillium in bloom.

It’s more than just giving back, Green Up Day gave us a chance to build relationships, learn from one another, and grow a sense of care for the world around us. 💛✨

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night at Hula Story Sessions! To be in a full room, sharing a story shaped by the strength and potential of our community, was a real gift.

What you heard was an invitation.

To listen.
To show up.
To invest in what’s possible for youth and families in our community.

We are especially appreciative to the voices from our community who brought this work to life through their stories, experiences, and perspectives! Thank you to our panelists Stuti, Misky, Stacy, Eric, and Shabnam.

And to the incredible team at Hula we are deeply grateful for your partnership and generosity 💛👑

Real life, real choices 💼💸

Our Academic & Career Exploration youth stepped into the shoes of their future selves at our Financial Reality Fair yesterday partnering up to navigate careers, families, budgets, and all the unexpected twists that come with adult life.

With guidance from our incredible partners at NorthCountry Federal Credit Union, Champlain Housing Trust, and Vermont State Treasurer Mike Pieciak, students made real-time decisions about housing, transportation, saving, and spending, learning quickly that the numbers don’t always add up without careful planning.

This hands-on experience is what ACE is all about: building confidence, strengthening decision-making skills, and preparing young people to navigate the real world with clarity and confidence.

Learn more about ACE & how to get involved at kingstreetcenter.org/ace

Meet the panel behind our Hula Story Session next Thursday, 4/30!

Hear from King Street Center leaders, staff, alumni, and youth as they share how our work has evolved and what opportunity looks like for the next generation.

📅 April 30, 2026
🕓 Doors open at 4:00 PM
📍 Hula on Lakeside Ave in Burlington

RSVP today: https://ow.ly/pjC450YOGIK
Learn more at https://ow.ly/v33N50YOGII