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Provides educational presentations on domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, sexual harassment, and related topics to schools, churches, businesses, medical staff, law enforcement, and community organizations. Presentations can be tailored to meet specific organization needs.

Visits people in a variety of settings, including, but not limited to, hospitals, adult day centers, retirement communities, residential health care facilities, schools, libraries, and veteran housing communities. Therapy Dogs of Vermont (TDV) Volunteer Handlers and their dogs undergo thorough and rigorous testing and evaluation with the goal of certification.

Provides down payment grants towards the purchase of a single-family home. Funds available on a first come, first served basis.

Answers questions about federal agencies and provides help with resolving a problem with such agencies, including the Social Security Administration, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Internal Revenue Offers help resolving problems with Social Security, Immigration, IRS, and other federal agencies. Assists with service academy nominations. Provides help with federal grant searches, US flags, and visits to the Capitol and White House.

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

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.

Operates a multipurpose center that offers a wide range of services and activities, including a variety of social and wellness programs, as well as information and referral services (available by phone and email). Provides transportation to medical appointments for seniors.

Provides rescue services to dogs at risk, placing them in foster homes and ultimately connecting them to adoptive households. Offers education and training to individuals and families on behavior modification, pet care, and pet owner responsibilities. Also provides volunteer opportunities, including fostering. Does not provide a shelter; rescued animals are fostered in private homes. Offers a Senior to Senior Program matching older adults with older dogs.

Provides transitional housing to men and women leaving incarceration and transitioning to the community. Dismas is a supportive community and substance-free environment where former prisoners and students live together with volunteer involvement from the greater community.

Provides information about travel advisories, airport traffic, border crossings, as well as travel assistance for US citizens and international travelers. Explains declaration and customs duty requirements for travelers returning from international destinations.

Provides loan of humane traps for the safe relocation of both domestic animals and wildlife in jeopardy. Assists with relocation of juvenile wild animals to wildlife sanctuary in Woodstock. Provides enclosure to confine animal so it adjusts to area.

Provides comprehensive cancer-related treatment in a research-based, clinical care environment. Services include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgical treatment, and palliative care for individuals with cancer. Also researches cancer causes, prevention, cures, and treatments.

Provides volunteer opportunities for individuals to serve one-on-one with frail elderly and other homebound persons who have difficulty completing everyday tasks. They might assist with grocery shopping, bill paying, and transportation to medical appointments, and alert doctors and family members to potential problems. Senior Companions also provide short periods of relief to primary caregivers.

Develops partnerships, coordinates volunteers, and supports program initiatives that address specific issues in the areas of education, income and health. This includes programs that strengthen financial stability, financial literacy, individual nutritional and physical well being, early learning, addiction prevention. Additionally, support is provided for programs addressing basic needs such as housing, food, and accessibility in service communities.

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 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 mental health and/or substance use disorder to support groups, job training and access, recovery centers, drug testing, and other services. Provides transportation service to and from areas outside of the Northeast Kingdom and the state, provided the client prepays the negotiated cost of the trip(s). Offers volunteer driver opportunities.

Provides ongoing weekly parenting classes using the Strengthening Families "Strong" curriculum. A light meal is provided.

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

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 access to low-cost, flexible home ownership mortgage programs for individuals in need of affordable, low-interest mortgage financing. Program also offers a down payment assistance program for eligible first-time home buyers.

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

Provides grants for the purchase of hearing aids and hiring of auditory trainers.

Provides individuals with a one time benefit of $120 for each eligible child to be able to purchase food during the summer.

Provides nurses and/or other trained professionals who visit the homes of women during pregnancy and after childbirth to help the women improve their personal health and development during the prenatal period and learn to care for their infant. Services include at-home assessments for expectant mothers and infants, postpartum assessments, newborn evaluations, breastfeeding support, nutrition education, parenting information, family adjustment support, skilled nursing care if needed, and assistance with coordination of family services.