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Offers a Resource library that includes a variety of downloadable books, toolkits, and reports, on various topics of importance to the autistic community such as: accessibility resources,self-advocacy resources, and acceptance resources.

Provides management and surveillance of wildlife diseases including rabies, avian influenza, and chronic wasting disease. Offers a Vermont-specific rabies hotline in partnership with the Vermont Department of Health. Responds to questions and concerns about nuisance wildlife.

Provides referrals to quality child care and specific supports to eligible children, and program consultation for early care and education and after school programs. CIS Coordinators assist families in accessing services appropriate to their needs. CIS teams have expertise in social work and family support, maternal/child health and nursing, child development and early intervention, early childhood and family mental health, and specialized child care. Child care financial assistance may be available.

Provides confidential consultations by trained professional case managers who can provide assistance with planning and arranging for support services. Assessments are provided both in home or pre-dismissal from hospitals or rehabilitation centers to determine eligibility for a variety of programs including Medicaid, SSI, food stamps, fuel assistance, housing, transportation, state pharmacy assistance programs, Lifeline telephone credit, respite and in-home services. Provides assistance with filling out forms for submission. Case managers also work with the VA in assisting veterans with applying for the Veterans Independence Program.

Provides ways to connect with individuals who share common life experiences or goals for support, education and mutual aid. Offers monthly support groups as well as telephone support. Provides new information and strategies for preventing or confronting problems, options to find emotional and other support from others and build confidence, and the opportunity to help others. Lists volunteer opportunities and a search tool for local events for individuals affected by MS.

Provides provides information on the safety of medications and other exposures during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Information Specialists answer questions about the safety and risk of exposures, such as medications, vaccines, chemicals, herbal products, substances of abuse, maternal health conditions and more, during pregnancy or breastfeeding.

Offers information related to healthcare, treatment costs, and managing complications of spinal cord injuries in order to improve an individual's health and quality of life.

Provides specialized information, referral, and advocacy in the areas of treatment, driver's licenses, employment, and education for people with epilepsy.

Provides presentations and speakers with lived experience on substance abuse issues to schools, church groups, and community organizations upon request. Presentations are tailored to appropriate age groups and public interest.

Provides legal advice or representation to individuals regardless of having filed a police report. Program assists survivors of domestic violence who want protective orders, or advice on divorce, custody, and visitation; elders and vulnerable adults facing abuse or financial exploitation; victims with housing, employment, or government benefits issues; and victims who need help safeguarding their rights through criminal proceedings.

Provides confidential consultations by trained professional case managers who can provide assistance with planning and arranging for support services. Assessments are provided both in home or pre-dismissal from hospitals or rehabilitation centers to determine eligibility for a variety of programs including Medicaid, SSI, food stamps, fuel assistance, housing, transportation, state pharmacy assistance programs, Lifeline telephone credit, respite and in-home services. Provides assistance with filling out forms for submission. Case managers also work with the VA in assisting veterans with applying for the Veterans Independence Program.

Issues medical marijuana licenses to protect patients from state criminal penalties for using marijuana to relieve the symptoms or effects of a debilitating medical condition. Also maintains a list of medical dispensaries, as well as a way to submit a complaint about adult-use cannabis establishments.

Offers a responsible driving education program that provides participants with increased insight into what it means to drive irresponsibly and greater awareness of how victims, others, the community, and themselves are impacted by their distracted and/or impaired driving behavior.

Provides a monthly cash benefit to qualified workers unable to work for a year or more because of a disability. Also offers a process to file an appeal.

Provides crisis intervention services to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress or worried about someone else in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. Specialized services available to the deaf/hard of hearing/those with hearing loss, Veterans, and Spanish speakers. Follow up services provided as well.

Convenes a multi-disciplinary group of service providers that meets monthly to coordinate services for pregnant and postpartum women with opioid use disorder and their infants. Encourages mothers to stay with their substance abuse treatment, get good prenatal care, and learn how to safely mother their newborns.

Offers new and diverse learning opportunities for serving the intellectual needs of Vermont’s older citizens through non-credit courses and programs offered at an affordable cost.

Provides assistive technology (AT) device demonstrations, trainings, as well as information and assistance regarding AT devices and services, funding resources, and other disability-related topics. People can check out loans online, and have the item mailed to them. The program also offers public awareness via informational displays and equipment demonstrations at outreach events, and technical assistance regarding AT to agencies and programs.

Provides a fund in the form of grants and loans for first-time homebuyers and homeowners. Grants and loans include Down Payment Assistance, Home Improvement, Interest Rate Buydown, and Affordable Housing Construction and Rehabilitation programs.

Provides general and specialized inpatient and outpatient mental health services and intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment. Specialized services include military sexual trauma assessment and treatment, post traumatic stress disorder assessment and treatment, as well as readjustment counseling services.

Provides temporary emergency shelter with shower and laundry facilities.

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.

Offers a recovery program for individuals with substance use issues. The program offers the opportunity to form close relationships with peers and recovery coaches that can support them in developing a healthy lifestyle that is rewarding and free from substance use.

Provides ongoing, up-to-date information about national and international public health occurrences such as extreme weather events, contagious disease outbreaks, and natural disaster information.

Provides a transitional housing program to individuals leaving incarceration and transitioning to the community.