Chloe Learey

A win-win investment

Act 76 is working as intended — improving child care in Vermont for working families and child care providers


Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro and serves as the steering committee chair of the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance, as the vice chair of the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital board of directors, and as a member of the board of directors of the Vermont Community Loan Fund.


BRATTLEBORO-The passage of Act 76 in the 2023 Legislative session signaled a significant new public investment in child care in Vermont. This was a response to growing recognition that child care is an essential piece of a two-generation economic development strategy and that the system in our state was struggling to provide sufficient capacity due to a lack of resources.

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Our economy will die on the vine if we don't address the housing issue

To keep moving forward, the Winston Prouty Center Housing Development Project to develop urgently needed housing in Brattleboro must raise $150,000 for predevelopment work

Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro and serves as the steering committee chair of the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance, as well as on the boards of the Vermont Community Loan Fund and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. BRATTLEBORO-MacKenzie Scott...

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Using our collective wisdom to take on the housing market

At Winston Prouty, we view our property as a community asset. We need the community to help us with our plan to build urgently needed housing.

Chloe Learey, a speaker on the panel at the Voices Live forum, is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro. She serves as the steering committee chair of the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance, as well as on the boards of the...

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‘I am grateful to be reminded of our North Star’

Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro. In announcing that Learey would accompany her to the State of the Union address, U.S. Rep. Becca Balint said that her guest "understands the impacts bold and creative investments in housing mean for a family's stability and a child's future" and said that Learey "represents the type of creative community leadership we need across the state and the country to address the housing...

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Homelessness casts shadow over children

Chloe Learey is the executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro and serves as the steering committee chair of the Vermont Early Childhood Advocacy Alliance, as well as on the boards of the Vermont Community Loan Fund and Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. Four years ago, the state of Vermont mustered the political will to offer shelter to all as the pandemic unfolded. The motel program was born and has continued to this day. It has...

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Winston Prouty Center raises $25,000

I would like to thank the community for supporting The Winston Prouty Center's annual Par for the Cause fundraiser. This year we raised over $25,000! We are grateful to the more than 100 businesses and individuals who supported our fundraiser by placing an ad in the event program, donating products and services to our raffle, or contributing to our family-fun experience. This year the event drew more than 150 people to our campus for a morning of pretend play, bouncy...

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Winston Prouty Center raises $25,000

I would like to thank the community for supporting The Winston Prouty Center's annual Par for the Cause fundraiser. This year we raised over $25,000! We are grateful to the more than 100 businesses and individuals who supported our fundraiser by placing an ad in the event program, donating products and services to our raffle, or contributing to our family-fun experience. This year the event drew more than 150 people to our campus for a morning of pretend play, bouncy...

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Safe, stable housing is a critical part of child development

Since 1968, the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development has provided inclusive education and family support to promote the success of children and families. For the past two years, we have been talking about developing housing. One of the questions we keep being asked is: Why? The first response is because we can. We own a property that has been a residential site, that is connected to town water and sewer infrastructure, and that is less than a...

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