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Provides confidential services including caring support, peer counseling, and information on the different stages throughout pregnancy. Services provided reflect a faith-based approach to pregnancy, parenting, and relationships.

Provides supplemental food for families with young children. WIC also provides breastfeeding support and nutrition education. Participants can get Farm to Family coupons to use at local farmers' markets.

Offers take out breakfast and early lunch weekdays. All participants seeking food relief services are screened for possible USDA food assistance programs and 3SquaresVT eligibility. The program also offers a take-out Thanksgiving meal on the day before Thanksgiving.

Pays a portion of home heating bills for households meeting income eligibility requirements. Seasonal Fuel Assistance is not designed to cover all of the costs of heating a home or apartment. Active Seasonal Fuel households are eligible for free weatherization services.

Offers a way to compensate for food lost during a disaster, such as a flood or fire, loss of electricity, or equipment failure. Recipients are eligible to have a portion or all of their benefit replaced, depending on the value of the food they lost due to the disaster.

Provides one-stop centers that offer an array of employment and training services. Helps job seekers assess skills and interests, explore training options, create a job search plan, write a resume, and find a job. Job seekers can access computers, educational resources, and information on employers. Training and pre-job assistance services include ICAN, which pairs qualified individuals with an employment coordinator to assist them with resources, support services, job readiness skills, case management, and job placement.

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations. Also offers holiday assistance which comes in the form of a gift card to the local supermarket.

Provides a voluntary and confidential opportunity for dialogue, understanding, accountability, and amend-making with direct participation of the people who have been affected and other community members. Offers low-level offenders an alternative to the formal court process and gives them a second chance to make amends.

Partners with senior meal sites and senior centers to provide hot, nutritious, noontime meals. Home-delivered meals are often available for those who are unable to reach a meal site because of illness or frailty.

Provides low vision services, including evaluation, information and referral, peer support groups, and instruction on adaptive techniques and aides for daily living. Transportation and Braille transcription services are also available. Offers volunteer opportunities for driving, errand assistance, and reading.

Assists with personal needs items and incidentals expense assistance as well as emergency dental, medical, and prescription assistance, medical supplies and equipment assistance, and burial costs.

Provides people with developmental disabilities of all ages with opportunities to express themselves through art, music, dance, literacy, athletics, and fitness while developing bonds of friendship and providing respite for families and caregivers. Offers job skills activities with vocational, social, and business skills training. Provides a wide range of volunteer opportunities. Through these programs ZP Participants contribute and benefit from the community.

Provides pre-boxed food staples and personal grooming items as available.

Provides a weekdays community breakfast.

Provides energy conservation services that improve efficiency, comfort, safety and save money on fuel. Includes a thorough inspection of a home to pinpoint areas where energy loss is the greatest and provides the needed improvements. Works on reducing drafts, installing insulation, repairing heating systems, caulking, and improving indoor air quality.

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 information about local child care providers. Also offers information on what to look for in quality child care.

Provides a safe, stable, drug and alcohol-free home and supportive services with the goal of helping residents transition to independent living and re assimilation into communities. Home environments are "family-style" where residents support one another in their recovery and cooperate to manage the household.

Provides prenatal and postpartum support including childbirth education, breastfeeding support, parenting strategies, coping skills, and information on health and safety issues.

Provides down payment zero interest loans towards the purchase of a single-family home. If the buyer owns and lives in the home for three or more years, the loan does not have to be repaid.

Provides loans and/or grants to municipalities and nonprofit organizations to purchase or expand community facilities and equipment, including public services like hospitals, libraries, fire/police stations and schools, water and waste management, and local food systems. Also provides disaster relief funding for communities and organizations impacted by catastrophes.

Provides home entry and bathroom accessibility modifications. Offers financial assistance for nonprofit housing providers for accessibility modifications in their affordable rental housing.

Meets people with empathy and practical tools, offering one-on-one problem-solving to meet urgent needs while helping to promote long-term stability. Prevents utility shutoffs and restores heat and electricity, Stabilizes housing by providing emergency rental and back rent assistance, Supports flood recovery and disaster response, Helps unhoused families and individuals move into permanent housing. Also offers Community Resource and Food navigation and Application support.

Provides Work Incentives Counselors who can help individuals decide whether to work, keep necessary benefits while they work, and avoid work/benefits conflicts. The program is also available to youth in high school who are in transition to adult life. Youth and their families can receive accurate information about the impact of employment on all Federal and State benefits they receive. Provides the Vermont Work/Benefits Helpline.

Senator Sanders' office provides casework and answers questions from constituents about federal agencies, Social Security benefits, veterans benefits, passports and visas. Assists constituents with service academy nominations, and federal grant searches. Assists constituents who are having trouble solving a problem with a federal program or agency. Assistance may include helping understand what is involved, inquiring about the status of a case, encouraging an agency to give a case full and fair consideration, and when appropriate, advocating for speedier resolution.