Vermont Service to Career Pathways

Turning service into opportunity. Strengthening Vermont’s communities and workforce.

Why This Matters Now

Across Vermont, young people are searching for meaningful ways to connect, grow, and build their futures. Our state faces pressing challenges: critical workforce shortages, more frequent natural disasters, growing numbers of Vermonters opting out of school and work, an affordability crisis and a housing shortage, and federal funding cuts that threaten long-standing service programs.

What if the very act of serving our communities and helping our neighbors—through programs like AmeriCorps, volunteer firefighting, climate corps, municipal or board service, etc.—could become a powerful on-ramp to a promising job and a Vermont career?

That’s the vision behind Vermont’s Service to Career Pathways initiative: a multi-year strategy to weave public service directly into our state’s talent and workforce development system, making service both a way to give back and a way to get ahead. The group of state agencies and cross-sector partners behind this effort envisioning building on what’s working, like SerVermont’s oversight of AmeriCorps funding, new collaboratives like Serve Learn Earn, and Vermont’s culture of neighbors helping neighbors.