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

Provides resource listings and links via the web for county sheriff departments, local police departments, state police offices, and other key law enforcement-related departments.

Provides screening, diagnostics, and treatment planning services for people who are experiencing acute or chronic psychiatric problems. Offers individual, group, conjoint (couples), and family counseling, therapy groups, medication and other mental health services for community residents, including those who have may be experiencing difficulty resolving personal or interpersonal conflicts or making personal adjustments to stressful life situations.

Provides legal advice or representation for Vermonters who have a civil legal problem. Areas of priority include: housing, relief from abuse, financial exploitation, victim’s rights, Social Security, Medicaid, and protection of personal autonomy. Represents Medicare beneficiaries who also receive Medicaid in Medicare appeals concerning home health services, durable medical equipment, nursing care and prescription drug coverage.

Educates the public about alternative, renewable energy sources, promotes investment in clean, safe renewable energy, and works to reduce toxic threats to the environment and human health throughout the state. VPIRG is also the lead advocacy agency for accuracy in labeling, requiring clear and specific disclosure of all ingredients, including genetically modified organisms (GMOs), that go into the production of food being sold in Vermont.

Works with households to resolve emergencies involving home heat and electrical disconnection notices using programs and funds available and helping with applications. Electric heat assistance is limited to households with primary heat source of electricity or electricity that is essential to keeping other types of heating systems operational.

Provides a monthly community lunch to eat in or take out.

Partners with senior meal sites and senior centers to provide hot, nutritious noontime meals.

Provides screening, diagnostics, and treatment planning services for people who are experiencing acute or chronic psychiatric problems. Offers individual, group, conjoint (couples), and family counseling, therapy groups, medication and other mental health services for community residents, including those who have may be experiencing difficulty resolving personal or interpersonal conflicts or making personal adjustments to stressful life situations.

Provides a lending service for durable medical equipment. Some items may include but not limited to wheelchairs, walkers, canes and quad canes, crutches, shower chairs, commodes, hospital beds, bed rails, and hoyer lifts.

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.

Provides a way for clients, or community partners helping clients, who are in a crisis situation due to benefits being denied in error or delayed to request help, or to register complaints about Economic Services programs or personnel. Also provides the public with a way to anonymously report suspected cases of fraud involving Reach Up (TANF), 3SquaresVT, General Relief or other Economic Services programs.

Provides a free and anonymous syringe exchange program. Program distributes new syringes and disposes of used syringes, safer use supplies, naloxone, wound care kits, fentanyl test strips, xyalazine test strips, and overdose prevention education.

Provides the public with the ability to report, online and via toll-free telephone, instances of online enticement of children for sexual acts, child sexual molestation, child pornography, child sex tourism, child sex trafficking, unsolicited obscene materials sent to a child, misleading domain names, and misleading words or digital images on the Internet.

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

Offers an eight-week full day camp with a different theme and activities each week. Includes breakfast, lunch, and snack.

Provides low interest loans and grants to help build, purchase, or repair a single family home. Funds may also be used in approved mobile home parks.

Provides representation to individuals in the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections. Provides representation to juveniles in delinquency proceedings, and to parties in juvenile proceedings including children in need of care and supervision (CHINS) and termination of parental rights cases. Individuals in extradition, probation or parole revocation proceedings are also represented.

Provides a monthly evening meal.

Offers HomeBuyer's Workshops, as well as education and counseling that include pre-purchase credit and budget counseling, financial literacy and foreclosure issues, guidance on affordable mortgages and refinancing, home maintenance education, and assistance with home rehabilitation planning. Offers housing down payment loans for manufactured homes through its Housing Loan Fund.

Provides a community space and resource center, play area for babies and toddlers, changing station with free diapers, baby wearing demos, and discounted baby carriers for sale. Also includes a book and DVD lending library.

Offers a series of health-related workshops and presentations for the community, many of which are offered by health professionals. Topics can include movement and exercise, nutrition, childbirth education, car seat safety, chronic disease self-management, and health/disease specific support group meetings.

Provides a comprehensive, confidential, statewide, health and human services information and referral service. Trained Community Resource Specialists offer personalized assistance by telephone, text, or email, help solve problems, and provide information and referrals to callers about government programs, community-based organizations, support groups, and other community resources.

Acts as enforcement officers for state trial courts. Handles the execution, service and return of all writs, processes criminal warrants directed by the courts; operates court house lock-ups; guards defendants who are in custody; transports inmates; and performs other duties, as needed, to ensure that the courts operate effectively.

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations.Offers USDA food commodities, 3SquaresVT application assistance, and seasonal Farm to Family coupons. Farm to Family coupons can be used at farmers markets and farm stands.Also offers diapers. Provides Thanksgiving baskets of sides for the meal and a voucher to purchase a turkey. Also offers a cooked take-out Thanksgiving meal with turkey and all the trimmings.