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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 information that assists travelers with making health and immunization decisions prior to traveling and provides protocol guidelines for individuals returning from international travel when disease outbreaks are an issue. Online travelers' health resources include a checklist for vaccination and travel, a national Find-a-Clinic link, and a continuously updated travelers' resource library.

Offers reparative panels as a form of community-sponsored probation that brings convicted offenders before a volunteer panel of citizens as part of their sentencing process. Panels work with victims and offenders to identify the harm caused by the crime and how that harm can be repaired while holding the offender responsible and accountable.

Provides formal wear that includes gowns, tuxedos, shoes, and accessories for high school proms between April and June annually. Accepts donations of formal wear (in fashion and vintage) that is in very good condition.

Offers a victim centered, pre-charge offender program that provides an opportunity to the offender to participate in an out-of-court process that, upon successful completion, will result in no legal charge being brought against them.

Provides safety information regarding smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and fireworks.

Provides information on lead safety, testing, and laws. Accepts reports of high lead levels. Provides information to tenants and landlords on Vermont Lead Law.

Provides confidential support and information. 24-hour hotline. Survivor-directed services may include safety planning, emotional support, assistance in obtaining emergency relief from abuse orders, hospital emergency room support, assistance in finding emergency shelter, advocacy for legal, financial, medical, and housing issues, and community resource referrals.

Provides in-home pediatric care with skilled nursing, therapies, and specific procedures. Provides physical therapists to do growth and development assessments, to establish exercise routines, to monitor progress, and to assist families with obtaining adaptive equipment. Also offers support and information to parents and family members who have previously experienced the loss of an infant.

Offers individualized career coaching focused on employment-readiness skills. The program also provides employment and career services for individuals with substantial barriers to employment. Provides free online learning pages and other resources on its website.

Provides information about foster care and coordinates support and resources for foster parents of children in State of Vermont custody.

Provides referrals for free, confidential mental health services of an hour per week for a year. Give an Hour also supplies a variety of links to mental health information and resources for military families. Works to reduce the stigma associated with mental health problems through education, training, and outreach efforts. Also provides free webinars for Wellness Ambassadors for promoting and advocating for mental health awareness in communities.

Assists schools, students and families in the development and implementation of strategies to overcome barriers to school attendance.

Provides preventive health care, as well as diagnosis and treatment of illness in children, adolescents and adults. Behavioral health services to include mental health and substance use disorder services.

Provides community food shelf services, including shelf-stable items and fresh produce (as available). Clothing and personal care items may also be available depending on donations.

Provides primary health care, as well as prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness. Services include primary medical care such as physical health examinations, immunizations, acute and chronic health screenings, obstetric care, laboratory testing, and birth control counseling. Provides onsite integrated health services to enhance access to appropriate prevention, treatment, recovery and wellness services and activities. Pediatric primary care is staffed by specialists who are concerned with the physical, emotional and social health of infants, children and adolescents from birth to young adulthood.

Provides the equipment and 24-hour personal response services that connect users to trained personal response associates who can send help quickly, allowing at-risk individuals to continue to live as independently as possible. Activation of the emergency response system can provide an immediate professional response to emergency situations such as falling. Some services include fall detection.

Provides transitional housing program for individuals and families who are at risk of becoming homeless or who are homeless in order to increase their level of self-sufficiency and ultimately transition from homelessness to permanent housing.

Partners with senior meal sites and senior centers to provide hot, nutritious, noontime meals. Home-delivered meals are often available for those who are unable to reach a meal site because of illness or frailty.

Provides general labor jobs in areas such as construction, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing and distribution, retail, hospitality, waste and recycling on a daily basis. Workers are paid net wages daily by paycard.

Provides a broad selection of recreational opportunities and leisure time activities.

Provides information about locations throughout Vermont where batteries can be recycled. Accepted batteries include alkaline batteries (such as AA, AAA, 9V, D-cell, C-cell, button cell, etc), rechargeable batteries, e-bike batteries, and Lithium batteries, such as those found in e-cigarettes. Cell phones can also be recycled.

Provides a visor card to help individuals who are Deaf or hard of hearing communicate with law enforcement officers if they are pulled over while driving. There are tips for how officers should communicate with the cardholder, followed by options that cardholders can point to indicating how best to communicate (writing, texting, lip-reading, etc.) with them. On the back, there are graphics with one-word labels that officers can point to under “I need to see your” (license, registration, insurance, other) and “Violations.” The last section is “Help” and lists options for cardholders to show the officer what they need (medical, lost, tow, etc.).

Assists people with persistent psychiatric difficulties to live in the community by offering individual and group counseling, service coordination and outreach, crisis intervention services, medication management, supported housing, and employment/volunteer services.

Offers a way to compensate for food lost during a disaster, such as a flood or fire, loss of electricity, or equipment failure. Recipients are eligible to have a portion or all of their benefit replaced, depending on the value of the food they lost due to the disaster.