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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.

Provides transportation service for clients of various human service agencies that have partnered with Green Mountain Community Network. Rides can be to medical appointments, congregate meal sites for seniors and approved by the local AAA, adult day services, essential shopping, vocational, and essential personal trips. Offers volunteer driver opportunities.

Offers free and confidential HIV testing and counseling. Tests chiefly use a finger stick, but an oral swab is available if necessary. Results are obtained in 20 minutes.

Constructs energy efficient, affordable homes in partnership with eligible families. The houses are sold to the partner families for an affordable mortgage. Costs are kept low by using donated materials and volunteer labor.

Represents individuals who receive long term care services in nursing homes, residential care homes, assisted living residences, or their own homes through the Choices for Care Program. Issues addressed include quality of care, quality of life, and residents' rights.

Provides one-stop centers that offer an array of employment and training services. Helps job seekers assess skills and interests, explore training options, create a job search plan, write a resume, and find a job. Job seekers can access computers, educational resources, and information on employers. Training and pre-job assistance services include ICAN, which pairs qualified individuals with an employment coordinator to assist them with resources, support services, job readiness skills, case management, and job placement.

Maintains a database of audiologists and speech-language pathologists, searchable by location, language of practitioner, areas of focus, and/or age group of patient.

Provides a crisis intervention and assessment program that includes telephone or face-to-face consultation and assessment for admission to local and/or statewide residential crisis programs. Also provides crisis intervention referral services and follow-up. When deemed warranted by the emergency intervention specialist, individuals may be placed in a Public Inebriate Program bed, a safe alternative to incarceration for individuals who require ongoing supervision during withdrawal from drug and/or alcohol intoxication.

Sells household items, appliances, electronics, and building materials. Provides relief for low-income or disadvantaged people to receive assistance with obtaining essential household items through the use of vouchers. Local services agencies participate in distributing vouchers to individuals in need. Also offers repair service for appliances, electronics, and computers.

Accepts consumer complaints regarding fraud and online privacy, and seeks refunds for groups of people affected by deceptive claims and services, such as cryptocurrency scams. Provides information about recent cases that resulted in consumer refunds, and suggestions about how consumers can proceed. The FTC cannot resolve individual consumer complaints, but when enough complaints are received about a particular organization or company, the FTC may open an investigation.

Provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient care and 24-hour emergency care. Services include 24-hour physician staffed emergency room services, diagnostic imaging, general medical and surgical services, lab testing, blood supply services, hospital-based outpatient services, disease specific treatment, pain management, adult and children's services.

Provides contact information for all Vermont State's Attorneys who charge and prosecute individuals, including juvenile. Each county in Vermont has an elected State's Attorney, responsible for prosecution of cases.

Provides comprehensive and coordinated long-term care in an individual's home. Services include case/care management, homemaker assistance and assistance with the activities of daily living. Also provides Medicaid Waiver, community-based one-to-one long term care services to individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Pays a portion of home heating bills for households meeting income eligibility requirements. Seasonal Fuel Assistance is not designed to cover all of the costs of heating a home or apartment. Active Seasonal Fuel households are eligible for free weatherization services.

Provides an online searchable, map-based directory of community and school gardens around the state, tools and tips for garden organizers, garden grant listings, a statewide garden-related events calendar, and resources such as seeds. Technical assistance via email or phone, and community garden start-up support are also available.

Provides telephone and face-to-face crisis intervention services for individuals whose emotional distress may range in severity from difficulty in coping with daily stress to the crisis of a psychotic episode. Enhanced Mobile Crisis Services provide rapid mobile response for individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis. A trained 2-person team can meet the individual at home, workplace, or another community setting, providing support and comfort including safety plans, peer support, care coordination and follow up and, if needed, temporary overnight accommodation.

Offers secondary school students the opportunity to earn up to 6 college credits while still enrolled in high school. Classes may be online or in-person.

Handles adoptions, regular guardianships, emancipation of minors, death and marriage records, the establishment of decedents' wills, the settlement of decedents' estates, and decisions relating to the administration of the estates of minors and individuals adjudged to be incompetent to manage their own affairs. Also handles trusts and name changes. Offers to file wills for safekeeping.

Provides activity groups that offer education, support, and opportunity for socialization.

Pays a portion of home heating bills for households meeting income eligibility requirements. Seasonal Fuel Assistance is not designed to cover all of the costs of heating a home or apartment. Active Seasonal Fuel households are eligible for free weatherization services.

Addresses complaints regarding housing discrimination, mobile and manufactured homes, deceptive contractors, issues with poor maintenance, health and safety risks. Also handles complaints about mismanagement and fraud on the part of landlords or property managers of HUD-insured and HUD-subsidized housing.

Provides information about local child care providers. Also offers information on what to look for in quality child care.

Provides information and assistance with Medicare, including Part D Drug benefit, Medigap Supplemental Insurance; managed care and long term care insurance; durable medical equipment; and pharmacy assistance programs. Healthcare Benefits Specialists can explain how the different programs work, can help sort through medical forms and bills, and can evaluate medical insurance needs.

Provides education and support, including support of individual developmental goals, and transition planning for services after early intervention. Coaches families and early care and education providers around individual child supports.

Provides occasional nursing and rehabilitative therapies in the patient's home. Skilled Nursing Services include nursing care, case management, and client and family education. Provides clients with social workers who offer coordination of community services and resources, client and family counseling, and navigating the health care system. Licensed Nursing Assistants provide home health assistance, including personal care assistance, light housekeeping, and help with normal daily living activities.