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Pays for laundry machine use and provides soap if needed.

Provides online interactive maps that help Vermonters easily access a range of road information, including road closures due to disaster, road projects and maintenance districts and road work, pavement condition, and locations of snow plows.

Pursues the preservation and protection of endangered land resources from indiscriminate development. Partners with local and statewide conservation organizations to conserve Vermont lands for the future. Conservation efforts include acquisition of development rights transferred through conservation easements for Vermont farms, working forest projects, and community projects. Also offers an online directory of conserved land open to the public for recreational trails.

Provides an online training course that helps early care and education providers better identify and monitor developmental milestones, recognize signs of potential delays, and share observations with parents. This training offers tools and best practices to support professionals and help children reach their full potential.

Provides the equipment and 24Hours/7Days personal response services that connect individuals to trained personal response associates who can send help quickly allowing at-risk individuals to continue to live as independently as possible. Activation of the emergency response system can provide an immediate professional response to emergency situations such as falling. By paying more, customers may also opt to get "Urgent Care" service that connects callers with a nurse for medical questions or prescription. Fall Detection is also available.

Helps Vermonters with disabilities to find and keep meaningful employment. HireAbility VT works closely with employment specialists at Supported Employment Programs who provide a wide range of services designed to teach necessary skills, help a person transition into a job, and ensure that employers meet the needs of their employees.

Provides a program that empowers Vermonters to lead healthier lives through hands-on nutrition education. The Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is usually a six-session series held in home, school, or community settings. An online nutrition education series, Eat Smart, Move More, is also offered and participants can access lessons at their own pace while receiving one-on-one support from their closest EFNEP Educator via phone calls, zoom meetings, and emails. Topics covered may include meal planning and preparation, food budgeting with a limited income, food safety and preservation, and nutrition tips.

Offers the services of Certified Recovery Coaches/Peer support specialist, who work both one-on-one with people on all paths to recovery to help them plan and make positive improvement in their lives, as well as with their families. Recovery Coaches also help guide people in recovery to finding resources such as detox and treatment, housing, food, heat, clothing, and transportation, and resources for improving relationships and getting connected with others in recovery with whom they can relate. Turning Point South located at Parks Place Carriage House, 44 School Street, Bellows Falls, offers recovery coaching and meetings.

Offers reparative panels as a form of community-sponsored probation that brings convicted offenders before a volunteer panel of citizens as part of their sentencing process. Panels work with victims and offenders to identify the harm caused by the crime and how that harm can be repaired while holding the offender responsible and accountable.

Provides a warm, dry place for people in need due to power outages, flooding, or extreme cold temperatures.

Insures deposits at federally insured credit unions, protects the members who own credit unions, and charters and regulates federal credit unions. Provides services through its online Consumer Assistance Center, which include answers to questions, a complaint process, and a toll-free hotline. Informs consumers about fraud alerts and prevention strategies through its Fraud Hotline and online Fraud Prevention Center. Provides a Financial Literacy & Education webpage with links to informational material.

Offers in person and telehealth services including: birth control, well-person check ups, sexual health care, STD testing and treatment, pregnancy testing, emergency contraception, cancer screenings, reproductive life planning, HIV testing and prevention, PrEP and PEP, menopause and perimenopause services, transgender health care, hormone therapy, and medication abortion services.

Provide winter coats, jackets, and other winter wear when available. Also offers an outdoor clothing closet.

Provides confidential support and information. 24-hour hotline. Survivor-directed services may include safety planning, emotional support, assistance in obtaining emergency relief from abuse orders, hospital emergency room support, assistance in finding emergency shelter, advocacy for legal, financial, medical, and housing issues, and community resource referrals.

Provides free services to people who have disabilities that affect their ability to get jobs, keep them, or advance in their careers. Counselors and specialists in 12 district offices work together with an extensive network of partners to help participants assess their interests and skills, explore career options, obtain career-focused training, and secure jobs and career advancement.

Provides a helpline and other supportive resources for gambling addiction. They also offer an online directory of counselors who specialize in addressing problem gambling.

Provides information about child care providers, such as when they became licensed, if they are accredited or have a STARS rating, and if they've had any licensing violations in the past year. Also provides a way to voice a concern about a provider (for example, they are unregulated, there is lack of supervision or too many children, unqualified or not enough staff, inappropriate guidance and discipline, unsafe environment), or make a formal complaint about a child care provider.

Provides a visor card to help individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing communicate with law enforcement officers if they are pulled over while driving. There are tips for how officers should communicate with the cardholder, followed by options that cardholders can point to indicating how best to communicate (writing, texting, lip-reading, etc.) with them. On the back, there are graphics with one-word labels that officers can point to under “I need to see your” (license, registration, insurance, other) and “Violations.” The last section is “Help” and lists options for cardholders to show the officer what they need (medical, lost, tow, etc.).

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations.

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. Enhanced Mobile Crisis Services provide rapid mobile response for individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis. A trained two-person team can meet the individual at home, workplace, or another community setting, providing support and comfort including safety plans, peer support, care coordination and follow up and, if needed, temporary overnight accommodation.

Provides a warm, dry place for people in need due to power outages, flooding, or extreme cold temperatures.

Assists with such needs as personal needs items and emergency dental care (including extractions) for relief of pain, bleeding, and infection. Provides means to return to the state of legal residence for people who are stranded.

Provides a monthly meal and fellowship.

Provides a wide range of disaster/emergency preparedness tools and information for individuals and families, including: information on biological, chemical, radiological, and weather-related threats; emergency response plans; and how to become a volunteer emergency responder. Also provides information about the measures individuals can take before, during, and after a localized flooding incident and/or wide scale flooding event.

Provides ongoing family support to all military personnel and families. Operates as a one-stop service center which provides assistance, information and referral to other agencies and organizations that assist service members and their families in both the military and civilian sectors. Services include emergency assistance, education and training, Tricare and insurance issues, ID cards, family care plans, counselor support, employer support, financial, family advocacy, legal property and household issues, reintegration and adjustment concerns.