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Offers wellness, fitness, and fall prevention programs that may include classes in yoga, strength training, and tai chi. Also offers a twice monthly online facilitated discussion group about aging issues.

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 2-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. Offers a youth crisis hotline, with an option of home visits. Batelle House provides crisis stabilization services for adults when screened through the Emergency Services programs. Also provides PUCK (Psychiatric Urgent Care for Kids), providing a safe alternative to the Emergency Department for youth experiencing a mental health crisis.

Convenes a coalition of community organizations and individuals working collaboratively to prevent and reduce underage use of alcohol, binge drinking, vaping and tobacco while increasing prescription drug safety, and marijuana education, and to encourage youth to make substance free healthy choices.

Administers the registration and title of all motor vehicles. Issues Vermont license plates. Issues Vermont Driver Licenses, Commercial Driver Licenses, School Bus Driver Licenses, and Motorcycle Driver Licenses. Provides driver training information and issues ID (Non-driver) cards and Learner Permits. Provides school bus driver training information and administers scheduling for driver's license exams. Issues Foreign and International Licenses.

Provides safety information regarding smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and fireworks.

Supports youth seeking to complete their education, acquire relevant and desirable employment skills, and enhance life and parenting skills. Provides an on-site care and education program for children ages six weeks to three years while parents work on achieving their own goals.

Provides a range of services designed to stabilize children and families and promote children's successful adjustment in the community. Services may include outpatient services, respite care, therapeutic case management, school-based services and support, crisis residential services, child psychiatry, and consultation.

Provides sheltering and adoption services for stray or surrendered pets. All cats, dogs, and rabbits at the shelter are spayed or neutered, vaccinated as appropriate, and undergo behavior modification as necessary before being adopted out. Adoption includes a voucher for one free examination with a local veterinarian.

Works with hospitals and other community providers, such as Early Head Start, homebirth midwives, and primary care professionals, to provide newborn and early periodic hearing screenings. Provides support, training, and care management for families and their babies, hospitals, and community providers.

Provides online training to educate individuals in the prevention of child sexual abuse. Topics include signs and symptoms of abuse, grooming practices, communicating with children at different developmental stages about healthy behaviors and recognizing and responding to concerning situations.

Provides harm reduction kits and personal hygiene supplies including diapers, period products, and other personal care items. Residents encouraged to take what they need and/or donate what they can.

Provides services and supports to prevent individuals falling into homelessness, stabilize their housing, move to more sustainable housing, or get assistance with rehousing

Offers a program for individuals who are looking for an alternative way to earn a diploma, and need comprehensive development and job training in construction and energy efficiency skills. Provides an opportunity to graduate from program with a GED or high school diploma as well as receive training certificates.

Administers the registration and title of all motor vehicles. Issues Vermont license plates. Issues Vermont Driver Licenses, Commercial Driver Licenses, School Bus Driver Licenses, and Motorcycle Driver Licenses. Provides driver training information and issues ID (Non-driver) cards and Learner Permits. Provides school bus driver training information and administers scheduling for driver's license exams. Issues Foreign and International Licenses.

Provides monthly cash assistance to low-income households in which a person's care or services are essential to an elderly or disabled person's remaining in his or her home. Benefit can be directly deposited into a bank account, or put onto an EBT card.

Offers periodic online business workshops related to the topic areas of expertise of the SCORE volunteer mentors. Provides online workshops through its national website.

Provides investigation of all sexually based crimes and assures that victims are supported through the process. Facilitates the Sexual Assault Response Team (SART), a team of professionals from diverse fields who respond to sex crimes. SART members include investigators from Vermont Department for Children and Families, law enforcement officers, victim advocates, prosecutors and medical and mental health professionals.

Provides public shuttle bus service connecting Vergennes and Bristol to Middlebury, and connecting Vergennes and Bristol via New Haven. Allows deviations of up to one half-mile from route.

Provides community events, peer-to-peer support, and advocacy led by, and for, asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees. Also provides the South Vermont Immigrant Community Leader Network (SVICLN).

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 garden space and agricultural support for growing vegetables and flowers for individual use and/or for CSA (Community Shared Agriculture) sales. Technical support includes education about marketing farm produce and starting a small farm business.

Provides skills training in activities of daily living, safe travel techniques, independent management of personal finances, access to printed materials, and the use of adaptive technology and equipment.

Provides victims of sexual assault with access to a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) and, if they wish, a Victim Advocate. SARCs and Advocates are not counselors or licensed clinicians, but are a confidential resource specialists. SARCs and Advocates will explain military reporting options available to the victim and connect them to appropriate medical, behavioral health, legal, spiritual, and financial resources available through the military.

Offers small grants for cancer-related costs, such as child care or transportation to and from cancer treatment. Grants for different costs are available at different times depending on funding streams.

Offers an online, self-paced driver-refresher course. Topics include how to tune up driving skills, age-related physical changes that affect driving ability, and how to reduce traffic violations, crashes, and chances for injuries. A four-hour classroom version is also available in certain areas.