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Provides free, confidential support groups are for those living with mental health conditions. offer safe spaces to share experiences, confront challenges, and access learning opportunities in a supportive setting. Meetings are facilitated by trained peers with lived experience.

Offers career development and support services to early childhood education professionals and childcare providers through provision of grants and bonuses.

Offers services and programs to eliminate barriers to obtaining healthcare such as: financial assistance applications for healthcare, dental care financial assistance for patients who meet criteria, help with enrollment and management of pharmaceutical programs for free medication and vouchers, and transportation vouchers when needed to get to healthcare or wellness appointments.

Offers a distribution service that loans qualified individuals with adaptive equipment that enables them to use telephone service. Example loaner equipment includes cell phones, caption phones and tablets. There is an option to purchase equipment by contributing 10% of the equipment cost.

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.

Provides information, advice, and necessary forms to register for the National Do Not Call Registry. The Registry gives individuals a choice about receiving telemarketing calls. Once registered, other types of organizations may still call, such as charities, political groups, debt collectors, and survey organizations.

Provides a post-secondary educational option offering two-year Associates Degree programs and Certificate Programs at twelve regional Academic Centers, as well as through the Center for Online Learning. Classes may be online or in-person.

Provides individualized, comprehensive, outpatient treatment services that address both the substance use of the individual and the needs of those affected by the individual's substance use. Groups are gender and trauma specific and are designed to build relapse prevention skills and harm reduction. Provides information about alcohol and drug use, the effects on individuals, families and communities, as well as information to the public about strategies for prevention and early intervention.

Assists with enrollment in Dental Financial Assistance program through North Star Health and provides assessment for eligibility for other programs that can help with cost dental care.

Provides community food shelf services.

Provides small, limited, community food services. Residents encouraged to take what they need and/or donate what they can in support of the pantry.

Provides advice or representation for qualifying Vermonters with legal problems including: relief from abuse, housing, government benefit programs, consumer rights, and problems with the IRS.

Owns and manages affordable, income-based housing units.

Provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient care and 24-hour emergency care. Services include 24-hour physician-staffed emergency room services, diagnostic imaging, general medical and surgical services, lab testing, blood supply services, hospital-based outpatient services, disease-specific treatment, pain management, adult and children's services.

Provides money management counseling services that include credit counseling, debt counseling, personalized budgeting, student loan counseling, bankruptcy counseling, and financial literacy training.

Offers food, clothes, and toiletries for take out.

Offers programs that introduce girls and gender-expansive youth to technical occupations, skilled trades, and empowerment activities to help them build confidence, think critically, and develop new skills. Rosie's Girls is offered as both a summer camp and afterschool program for middle school youth. Women Can Do is a one-day career exploration experience for high school girls and LIFT (Launching Inclusive Futures in Trades), is a one-week trades program in the summer for high school students. Additional youth programs include Career Challenge Days, and other programming with regional technical and career centers.

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

Provides school backpacks containing essential school supplies that will be available at local pick-up sites. Check website for pick up locations and phone number.

Recruits volunteers to provide relief to victims of disasters, and to help prepare for, and respond to emergencies nationally and internationally. The Red Cross provides training for most volunteer positions and the level of training varies according to the requirements of the position.

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 monthly supplemental nutrition assistance benefits to low-income households to purchase food. Households in which any person is younger than 65 access their benefit using a Vermont Express electronic benefits transfer (EBT) debit card. If everyone in a household is 65 or older, or receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), benefits are deposited as cash into the recipient's bank account. Expedited benefits are available in emergencies and other specific situations. EBT cards may also be used to buy fresh, local products at certain farmers' markets in Vermont. A list of farmer's markets that can accept EBT cards is available on the website. In addition, 3SquaresVT benefits may be used for seeds and plants that grow fruit and vegetables at any retailer or farmer's market that accepts EBT cards.

Provides information on how to identify, prevent, and treat mold and mildew, as well as information on the potential dangers of radon gas. Also provides radon test kits.

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.

Provides comprehensive preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services for women from puberty through the post-menopausal years. Services include well-woman exams, contraception, pregnancy and delivery services including midwifery services, pregnancy and childbirth education, as well as breastfeeding and post-partum support services. Services may also include menopausal and post-menopausal management services and urogynecology services.