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Offers a 12 Step recovery program for individuals who wish to stop the compulsive behavior of drinking. Also provides information about dates, times, and locations of meetings.

Provides a twice-weekly balance and strength-training exercise program. Sessions are for up to 15 participants.

Provides information about what vaccines are needed and for whom and suggests age-appropriate immunization schedules. Also provides information about vaccines and preventable diseases, the availability of vaccines in the United States, vaccine side effects, and vaccine safety.

Provides mostly disposable children's diapers up to size 6.

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

Provides flexibly scheduled and routed door-to-door (or curb-to-curb) transportation services. Coordinates and provides non-emergency medical transportation to health and wellness appointments, including for individuals who do not qualify for Medicaid or Senior Rides transportation programs. Offers transportation for individuals with substance use disorder to support groups, job training and access, medically assisted treatment, recovery centers, drug testing, and other services. Provides opportunities for volunteer drivers.

Provides adoption services and support that includes, but is not limited to: all-options, non-directive, judgment-free pregnancy counseling; free, independent legal assistance; free, independent counseling before and after pregnancy; and lifelong support. Friends in Adoption (FIA) also works with prospective adoptive parents to help prepare and guide them through the adoption process. FIA specializes in "open" adoptions, where birth parents may have contact to some degree with the adoptive family, but also handles closed adoptions. FIA's website has information about different adoption options and a list of potential adoptive families. FIA also provides adoption training for healthcare/counseling professionals.

Provides a method for filing a complaint about a member of the Winooski Police Department.

Provides limited funding for emergency dental care, prescriptions, and other medical needs, and a limited amount of gasoline cards for transportation to medical appointments if public transportation is not realistic. Other supports may be available for medical appointments at distant locations.

Provides comprehensive services to individuals with developmental disabilities, autism, and other pervasive developmental disorders. Individuals are assigned professional service coordinators who are responsible for clients' Individualized Support Agreements, and for assisting them in achieving success in the community. Services include personal support and case management, specialized residential programs, psychiatric and medical care, vocational and skill acquisition training, family support services, and support services to individuals in nursing homes. Provides a spectrum of supported living arrangements to meet the needs of each person. Clinical services for individuals include provision of a psychiatrist to provide evaluation, medication checks, and after-hours consultation on medication issues. Also provides care coordination services.

Allows for an individual or organization that receives Social Security and/or SSI payments and who cannot manage their own money to name a representative to assist with direct management of their benefits. The Social Security Administration assists individuals in finding a representative payee, as well as manages the application process for individuals and organization looking to become representative payees.

Operates community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including military service-related sexual assault counseling, reintegration counseling, and individual, group, marriage, and family counseling.

Accepts donations of gently used adult clothing, up to 3X, as well as maternity, baby, and children's clothing. May also accept donations of toys and books.

Provides the equipment and 24-Hour personal response services that connect users to trained 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. Some services include fall detection. Also provides medication dispensing equipment.

Provides primary police services for approximately 200 Vermont towns out of 10 barracks throughout the state. Troopers perform traditional police services of traffic enforcement and the investigation of crimes, and also enforce snowmobile and recreational boating laws.

Provides a broad selection of recreational opportunities and leisure time activities.

Offers business advising to eligible farmers, agriculturally-related businesses (including food businesses), forest products enterprises, and forest landowners. A network of advisers provides business planning and technical assistance. The Viability Program also makes grants available on a competitive basis when funding allows.

Provides rescue, refuge, medical treatment, and other basic care for abandoned, stray, and neglected animals. Facilitates adoption of fostered animals, matching pets with the most appropriate households.

Offers free and confidential HIV testing and counseling. Tests chiefly use a finger stick, but an oral swab is available if necessary. Results are obtained in 20 minutes.

Provides individualized outpatient substance use assessment and treatment services for individuals who are dependent upon, or at risk of becoming dependent upon, alcohol or other substances. Also provides family substance use counseling for families dealing with adolescent substance use issues and provides group treatment services for adolescents. Provides information about alcohol and drug use; the effects on individuals, families and communities; as well as information for the public about strategies for prevention and early intervention.

Provides wellness information to community members that may include the following: activity and exercise, stress reduction, disease-related support groups, chronic disease self-management, fall prevention, CPR and first aid instruction. Provides Healthier Living Workshops for individuals living with chronic diseases and long term health issues to improve their health and well-being through participation in group exercise activities and health education classes.

Provides assistance with locating, securing and maintaining permanent, affordable housing and will provide intensive case management individually tailored to meet the needs of each family. Counselors work with families to assess needs and to establish housing goals. Provides information and guidance about rental costs, renter responsibilities, 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. Also provides tenant rights information and landlord/tenant mediation as part of individualized case management.

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 information about insect pests, including pest identification, pest surveillance, plant certification, public awareness, Christmas tree inspections, and pest management strategies.

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.