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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 a range of services to improve the safety and wellbeing of children and families. Services include care coordination, family safety planning, family time coaching and family finding.

Offers assistance to families who need to travel for childhood cancer treatment. Funds for domestic transportation and lodging accommodations are available to eligible families who meet program criteria.

Provides a support line which can connect callers to the VA, a Caregiver Support Coordinator, or just listen. Peer Support Mentoring is also offered, as well as a variety of other services.

Offers innovative and often very intensive assistance to youth transitioning to adulthood with accessing and succeeding in employment, education, housing, positive relationships, community connections, and living independently. The JOBS program focuses on youth who have either left or are seriously at-risk-of leaving school prior to successful graduation and are at high risk for involvement with the criminal justice system, substance use, homelessness, physical abuse, abusive behaviors, or other areas of significant concern.

Provides temporary financial assistance for a heating-related need such as heating fuel purchase, furnace repair, or furnace replacement.

Offers services that may include employment counseling and guidance, provision of technical assistance in different settings (such as accommodations at work and home), adaptive equipment, technical assistance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and information about deaf and hard of hearing clubs, associations, and support groups.

Offers informational and peer social support groups for people living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS), and their families, friends, and caregivers.

Allows eligible Vermonters to use a simpler, shorter combined application for both 3SquaresVT and fuel benefits, with a 36 month renewal term and no additional paperwork. Each program enrollee will have an individual caseworker. Current 3SquaresVT recipients who qualify will be converted to 3Squares in a SNAP.

Provides interpretation assistance to individuals for various appointment, including immigration proceedings.

Provides access to community resources, including financial, medical, and legal information. In addition, a coordinator works with peers to improve options for independent living in the community.

Offers services that may include employment counseling and guidance, provision of technical assistance in different settings (such as accommodations at work and home), adaptive equipment, technical assistance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and information about deaf and hard of hearing clubs, associations, and support groups.

Offers small respite grants to kinship caregivers. Grants are on a first-come, first-served basis.

Offers resources related to perinatal mental health, for both mental health providers and people experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Helps eligible parents earn two- or four-year undergraduate college degrees with the goal of getting good paying jobs so they can support their families. The program provides monthly cash payments, support services, help with childcare, transportation, and school supplies, and may provide benefits through Reach Ahead if the parent is working and the PSE grant closes.

Teaches skills of daily living, Braille and other communication skills, and use of adaptive equipment and mobility aids. The program also helps teens with transitioning out of high school into adult life. Also offers a summer camp program. Parents receive information about helpful resources and literature, as well as answers to questions concerning their child's growth and development. Educators can obtain textbooks in Braille or in large print.

Provides inpatient and outpatient primary, mental health, and specialty heath services including hospice care, home nursing, and telemedicine. Assistance with home health aides are also included in the services.

Provides job skills training, financial literacy workshops, English literacy classes, career support, and support meetings devoted to the challenges facing mothers in the United States. Also Coordinates a mentor network linking Burlington community professionals with aspiring women.

Provides emergency financial assistance, including payment of outstanding utility bills or overdue rent on a one-time basis, airfare to the UK for emergencies or permanent resettlement, car repairs if needed for work, and other needs on a case-by-case basis.

Connects people experiencing both mental health issues and homelessness with existing services and resources. Based on an Intentional Peer Support approach. Provides access to a mental health therapist if desired.

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

Provides resource coordination, an online resource directory, free short-term counseling for farmers and farm families, a peer farmer program, post-disaster planning assistance, and an after hours hotline staffed by trained mental health practitioners.

Offers services that may include employment counseling and guidance, provision of technical assistance in different settings (such as accommodations at work and home), adaptive equipment, technical assistance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and information about deaf and hard of hearing clubs, associations, and support groups.

Offers disaster preparedness information, and emergency assistance and recovery information for farmers in the recovery phase of natural disasters, and farm-related information regarding water contamination and pesticide exposure. Hotlines may be set up during specific disaster situations and links would be posted in this program. Also provides business disaster loan information for farmers and other agricultural business operators.

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.