SARA  DAVENDONIS

Sara was born in Bennington at the Southwest Vermont Medical Center.

Her first job ever was a prep cook at the Vermont Veterans Home when she was just 14 years old. She then furthered her career working her way up the chain from line cook to become a head chef at Brookdale Filmore Ponds.

Due to life circumstances and personal exposure to adverse childhood events and from an outside point of view of my own child I decided to change careers because I wanted to help more children in similar scenarios throughout various traumatic and impactful experiences and scenarios. I then spent a brief time, at VPI until finding my home at Seall Inc. 

Hobbies outside of work mostly are spending family time at home, baking and going on adventures with my children. as well as teaching and coaching in the spring for u10 and u12 young women’s softball. 

Every day is a new day with these youth at Seall. With help from my teammates and support of Management it balances everything, and I know that nothing last forever.

 There’s always room for growth and learning and I love having my 4 days on and 3 days off work schedule.

Sara gives this advice to new staff, “You need to know your limits as a person. This job can and will be very rewarding at times. Don’t give up, take one day at a time and don’t forget self care is a necessity!”

Thanks for all everyone does.