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

Provides information about winter driving safety tips, teen driving tips, and motorcycle safety tips.

Provides one-on-one peer support to those recently diagnosed, in treatment, living with cancer, beyond cancer, or caregivers.

Offers a twice weekly moderated online group for individuals to talk in a safe space without fear of being made to feel uncomfortable or unwelcome.

Helps new fathers adjust to parenting and life in the United States. Provides support and resources about parenting to all fathers.

Offers a 24Hour helpline staffed by Cancer Information Specialists who answer cancer-related questions. Cancer Information Specialists can also link callers to local programs and resources, such as peer support groups, patient housing, financial assistance, and medical transportation.

Provides an information line for the autism community. The Autism Response Team provides personalized information, tools, and resources.

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.

Focuses on rural health care workforce development to meet the needs of communities and health care professionals. Related to workforce development, the center works closely with the University of Vermont in supporting medical students and their community faculty prior to, during, and after rotations.

Offers free admission to Vermont State Parks (overnight camping and other park fees are excluded), Vermont State Historic Sites, and events which are fully State sponsored.

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.

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 a wide range of online health information directories on topics ranging from clinical trials, drugs and dietary supplements, general health information, and environmental health. The clinical trials database allows users to search by type of health condition and by location of trial. The Household Products Database provides information on the potential health effects of chemicals contained in common products. MedlinePlus offers information about various health issues, searchable by body location/system, type of disorder, as well as diagnostic tests and therapies.

Provides monetary grants of up to $5,000 (with a lifetime maximum of $10,000 per child) toward a family's share of the cost of medical services when gaps in a family's commercial health benefit plan mean that a child may go without necessary treatment, or when the child receives care and the family assumes a large amount of debt. Covered services include deductibles, co-insurance, co-pays, and services not covered by insurance. A list of services not covered by this program is available on the website

Provides care coordination and family training on palliative care principals, medical treatment regimens, medical equipment use, how to provide in-home care, and expressive therapies (art, music, and play). Pediatric palliative care may also include skilled respite and family grief counseling/bereavement counseling, both during the patient's life and for up to six months in the event of the patient's death.

Provides assistance for applying for and filing claims for all federal benefits, including pensions, healthcare, and burial benefits. Also provides information on obtaining representative payee services.

Provides information about clinical trials for individuals at sites in the New England region, across the nation, and also through online surveys.

Offers ongoing domestic violence accountability group for those who have caused harm in their intimate relationships. The program supports participants through a process of developing and maintaining accountability as they heal unresolved trauma and transform abusive values.

Provides licenses to establishments that prepare and serve food or offer lodging to the public for more than one day a month. Provides information about Vermont restaurant and lodging rules. The establishments licensed by VDH include, but are not limited to, restaurants, delis, bakeries, seafood vendors, food caterers, fair stands, B&Bs, children's camps, grocery stores, and hotels. Accepts complaints about restaurant sanitation, as well as reports of possible food poisoning.

Offers online support for patients, caregivers, and those mourning the loss of a loved one through cancer using a password-protected message board format (not live chat).

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.

Conducts outreach at hospitals, prisons, residential care homes, therapeutic care homes, and mental health agencies. Offers trainings by advocates on a wide range of disability-related subjects, including issues of violence against, and abuse and exploitation of, people with disabilities; advance directives; and representative payee services. Also provides Traumatic Brain Injury legal clinics.

Assists with support and information on such topics as survivor benefits, resources, programs, and educational resources.

Provides public awareness and education to promote community wellness and to prevent the misuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, with an emphasis on youth substance use prevention. Collaborates with other wellness programs, schools, and communities to help them promote healthy behaviors and reduce health risks.