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Provides confidential, client-directed information and assistance in gaining access to government and community programs including housing, transportation, Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, food stamps, Medicaid, health-care insurance, legal services, adult day services, hoarding issues, and mental health services. Options Counseling is also available to enable older adults to maintain independence. Maintains a regional listing of in-home assistance providers available to assist seniors with continuing to live independently at home.

Provides hands-on learning opportunities to teach skills that promote success in life. Young people can join a 4-H club, Cloverbud, special interest, or school enrichment group. Activities include project learning, community service, and recreational activities.

Provides post-permanency services including in-home adjusted parent education, consultation to treatment teams and advocacy, referrals to community resources, general adoption information, and kinship placements support.

Provides monthly benefits to eligible survivors of workers covered under Social Security who have died. Survivor benefit amounts are a percentage of the deceased worker's primary insurance amount.

Provides nationally certified adaptive riding, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and mental health services for persons with disabilities, including veterans. Professional staff, volunteers, and horses work as a team to provide case-specific sessions addressing the physical, emotional, and cognitive challenges of participants.

Provides screening, diagnostics and treatment planning services for people who are experiencing acute or chronic psychiatric problems. Also offers individual, group, conjoint and family counseling, therapy groups, medication and other mental health services for community residents, especially those who have acute or chronic psychiatric disorders or who may be experiencing difficulty resolving personal or interpersonal conflicts or making personal adjustments to stressful life situations. Provides telephone and face-to-face crisis intervention services for individuals whose emotional distress may range in severity from difficulty in coping with daily stress to the crisis of a psychotic episode.

Provides restorative interventions for youth and youthful offenders involved with the juvenile justice system, at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system, and/or truant. Aims to decrease risk factors and strengthen protective factors in order to reduce or eliminate further involvement in the system. Offers community restorative practices.

Provides disaster related services, including providing ongoing, updated information to the public during disasters, fielding non-emergency calls, offering information about relief services, collecting information about individual property damages, and researching and confirming or denying rumors.

Distributes Farm to Family Coupons that can be used to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables at authorized farmers markets in Vermont.

Provides formal supervision of offenders released conditionally on probation or parole or confined to their homes or other venues in the community.

Assists individuals with regaining their licenses while they are paying off fines and fees. Program participants work with diversion staff to develop contracts that include a payment plan. Participants must satisfy the Vermont Judicial Bureau and the Department of Motor Vehicles requirements. Successful completion of program leads to criminal charges being dismissed.

Provides an alternative to cash and "open pay" (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Debit/Credit Card) bus fare payment. Ride Ready by GMT is a mobile app for smart phones and also can be used to pay for a Ride Ready by GMT Smart Card. Funds can be added to the app and/or card.

Provides primary health care, as well as prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness. Services include primary medical care such as physical health examinations, immunizations, acute and chronic health screenings, obstetric care, laboratory testing, and birth control counseling. Provides onsite integrated health services to enhance access to appropriate prevention, treatment, recovery and wellness services and activities. Pediatric primary care is staffed by specialists who are concerned with the physical, emotional and social health of infants, children and adolescents from birth to young adulthood.

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations. Also provides a special holiday food distribution with ham or turkey and all the fixings.

Provides mediation services through which disputes are resolved with the help of a trained mediator to avoid resorting to court intervention. Situations that may benefit from mediation are disputes with neighbors, such as noise, vandalism, animal complaints, and parking issues; landlord-tenant disputes; and problems related to business or workplace conflicts.

Helps families with children by providing case management services that support work, training and education, and cash grants for basic necessities. Reach Up helps with identifying skills, abilities, interests, training or education needs, preparation for work, childcare costs, transportation costs, and work-related costs such as clothing, tools, and supplies. Each person on Reach Up works with a case manager to create a Family Development Plan. Benefits paid through direct deposit or EBT card. Child-Only Reach Up provides cash assistance to help eligible adults care for the minor, dependent children of relatives or family friends. Reach First helps families overcome temporary, short-term financial crises and avoid the need for longer-term assistance, providing case management, financial help, and support services. Reach Ahead helps families transition from Vermont's Reach Up or Post-Secondary Education (PSE) programs to working, with supports to help maintain a job, including cash incentives for working and help paying for car repairs, work clothes, and work supplies, a 100% childcare subsidy, and a cash benefit for food.

Provides assistance for people who need housing including information and guidance about rental costs; how to select affordable housing that meets individual needs; and how to provide for insurance, utility costs, and other requirements related to paying for housing. Coordinates with other providers in the community to help individuals and families obtain or maintain housing. May offer limited financial assistance with rent, rental deposit, and other payments. Also provides the Rent Right Program, designed to provide participants with the skills, materials, and confidence necessary to find and maintain stable housing. Upon completion of the program, participants receive a Preferred Renter Certificate, which shows landlords that they have made an investment into being a good tenant.

Provides a community-wide, coordinated effort to identify, assess and find appropriate options for homeless individuals and families seeking housing or related services, and/or for those at imminent risk of becoming homeless.

Provides rehabilitative therapies including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech language pathology to help individuals recovering from surgery, stroke or illness. Also provides pediatric rehabilitative therapies.

Provides assistance with locating, securing and/or maintaining housing. Provides information and guidance about rental costs; how to select affordable housing that meets individual needs; and how to budget for insurance, utility costs and other requirements related to paying for housing. Assistance with locating, securing or maintaining housing. Develops and manages permanently affordable rental housing.

Provides volunteer assistance to individuals who are in need of general household repairs and cannot afford to have paid contractors repair their homes.

Operates the United States Postal Services (USPS) website, an interactive resource that allows users to calculate postage; print shipping labels (with or without postage); schedule pick ups; track and confirm mail delivery; learn about bulk mail shipping; and order mailing supplies, stamps,and customized stamps. Website also provides tips for mailing to troops overseas.

Provides temporary lodging for cancer patients who are undergoing treatment for cancer in Burlington, and their families.

Answers questions related to the individual federal tax return, adjustments to tax accounts, taxes on wages or bank accounts, and IRS letters and notices. Offers option of payment plans if taxpayer cannot pay the full amount owed. Helps with the preparation of a heavy vehicle use tax return. Provides state income tax and related tax forms, schedules, and publications for individuals and corporate and business entities. Website offers free online tax preparation and e-filing Free File software.

These vouchers provide a subsidy to the landlord to help cover the cost of rent. Unlike other vouchers, they do not move with tenants when they vacate the home.