Vermont Language Justice Project
Working to make information accessible for everyone
A project of CCTV
Welcome to the Vermont Language Justice Project
The Vermont Language Justice Project allows people with language access needs the ability to make informed decisions about their health and safety, as well as navigating everyday life in the USA. We do this by creating public service videos in 21 of the languages spoken here in Vermont. This media is co-produced with trusted community members from Vermont’s refugee, migrant, and immigrant communities. These messages are shared widely through YouTube, WhatsApp and with over 200 community partners. As of July 1, 2025, we have had 345,000+ views on our YouTube channel and more than 2,375 subscribers.
In May 2025, VLJP launched iFY, a new mobile phone app, to make it easier for people to access and find our hundreds of videos. Learn more and download iFY here.
Our Team
Click on the languages to view all the videos in each language. You can also find our complete
video library here.
Click on the buttons to view all the videos in each language. You can also find our complete
video library here.
July 1st 2025
A quick message from the Director of VLJP
Dani and I have just returned from the International Refugee and Migration Health Conference in Halifax Nova Scotia. We networked with 100’s of health care providers, researchers, people with lived experience of being a refugee or immigrant/migrant, students and policy makers, over the three days. We made some excellent connections, listened to some brilliant people and learned so much more about the needs of the community that we strive to support at VLJP. This is my fourth conference and it was the most painful one to attend. Painful because of the numerous stories we heard about the decision to stop all resettlement in the USA, funding cuts that are sweeping across the USA at all levels of service provision and the intensified violence, mistreatment and fear that refugees, im/migrants and people seeking asylum are facing in their daily life. However, I was so moved by the huge sense of solidarity from the Canadians, knowing that they are our allies in this fight. They expressed a desire and passion to do whatever is needed to support health care to those we serve in the USA during the months ahead. There is a study taking place to collect data of how the actions of the current government of the USA are affecting the folks we serve. If you are interested in knowing more about this study, please go to this website for more information.
https://survey.ucalgary.ca/jfe/form/SV_3mbeEE4E8iiPpVc?Q_CHL=qr
They will be presenting this data in September at the 2nd World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health in Lisbon, Portugal.
I made a new friend at the conference from London, England, (my home town) and chatted to him without realizing he was one of the keynote speakers… a poet, an activist and a social worker. His name is JJ Bola. I will leave you with a quote from one of his books.
“We cannot build the world we want, if we cannot see the world we want. Imagination is the engine, the fuel which brings our stories to life. It is our life force, our hope, that we may change the world from what it is to what it could be.
Imagination is the passport to our future.”
Please be in touch if you want to know more about our experience at the conference.
In solidarity
Alison