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Offers a 12 Step recovery program for individuals who wish to stop the compulsive behavior of using cocaine. Also provides information about dates, times, and locations of meetings.

Provides flood-related recovery services and resources, including assistance with resource navigation, emergency housing support, Food, water, clothing, flood buckets and mucking supplies, dehumidifiers and box fans, use of washer and dryer, and flood damage reporting assistance.

Provides comprehensive and coordinated long-term care in an individual's home. Services include homemaker assistance, medication management, and assistance with the activities of daily living, including personal care and respite care. Also provides caregiving to clients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI’s).

Helps connect consumers to safe, affordable bank and credit union accounts. Provides a way to enable individuals without regular access to a financial institution to create accounts for direct deposits of child tax credits and other benefits, as well as a means to pay for bills safely.

Provides strength based psychotherapy services including play and various group therapies both in area schools and in Waterbury and Waitsfield offices. Also offers resource and referral information, free consultations, parenting education and prevention training.

Provides financial assistance to help Green Mountain Power (GMP) customers pay their bill when they have received a disconnect notice. Part of the bill will be paid by the program, and payment arrangements will be made for the balance.

Provides a way to search by county for financial literacy classes. Also provides some statewide resources.

Provides free college courses for Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) staff and Vermonters who are incarcerated, including textbooks and fees.

Administers Medicare and partners with state governments to administer Medicaid. Pursues cases of alleged Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Provides a database of doctors who accept Medicare.

Provides training designed to prevent child sexual abuse. Training's can be delivered as webinars, community workshops, and comprehensive multi-day organizational trainings including trainer certifications.

Assists individuals seeking to improve their money management skills in monthly bill paying, debt reduction, savings and credit reports and credit repair. The process generally involves analysis of the individual's income, expenses, debts, taxes and other factors to create a personal financial assessment and development of a budget for basic living expenses. Also offers workshops that address a wide variety of money management issues including banking services, consumer credit lending, and debt consolidation/repayment.

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.

Provides down payment zero interest loans towards the purchase of a single-family home. If the buyer owns and lives in the home for three or more years, the loan does not have to be repaid.

Provides preventive health care, as well as diagnosis and treatment of adults. Services include primary medical care such as physical health examinations, acute and chronic health screenings. Programs for health maintenance and public education services are also offered.

Provides nurses and/or other trained professionals who visit the homes of women during pregnancy and after childbirth to help women improve their personal health and development during the prenatal period and learn to care for their infant. Services include at-home assessments for expectant mothers and infants, postpartum assessments, newborn evaluations, breastfeeding support, nutrition education, parenting information, family adjustment support, skilled nursing care if needed, and assistance with coordination of family services.

Offers the services of Certified Recovery Coaches/Peer support specialist, who work both one-on-one with people on all paths to recovery to help them plan and make positive improvement in their lives, as well as with their families. Recovery Coaches also help guide people in recovery to finding resources such as detox and treatment, housing, food, heat, clothing, and transportation, and resources for improving relationships and getting connected with others in recovery with whom they can relate.

Provides a toll-free telephone number to report hazardous material spills. Specially trained hazardous materials (HAZMAT) technicians located throughout Vermont, and specially equipped HAZMAT Team trucks, assist fire departments in responding to spills of hazardous materials. The HAZMAT Team consists of firefighters, police officers, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), paramedics, and environmental specialists.

Provides physical health exams, acute and chronic health care, immunizations, women's health screenings, limited mental health counseling by appointment, lab and blood work, x-rays (Castleton and Mettowee only), and assistance with finding affordable prescription medications. Provides patient-centered physical and mental health care delivered by a team of primary care and mental health clinicians .The clinics also provides referrals to other health and non-health services, and will screen patients and callers for eligibility for other health services and public insurance programs, as well as assisting with the application process. The Brandon, Castleton, and Mettowee clinics also hold diabetes education classes. This location also serves as an Express Care urgent care clinic.

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.).

Provides small, limited, community food services. Residents encouraged to take what they need and/or donate what they can in support of the pantry.

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.

Offers adult education and literacy instruction that provide learners with the opportunity to acquire the education and literacy skills they need either to complete a secondary education or to better achieve post-secondary/career goals. Instruction is provided at six learning centers, as well as at job sites, libraries, homes, and other locations. Services include the following: Functional Literacy Education (Reading, Writing, Math), Computer Literacy, Financial Literacy, English Language Learning and Citizenship Preparation, High School Completion Program, General Education Development (GED) Credentialing, and Career and College Readiness.

Provides new and/or used clothing and household goods.

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.

Issues Social Security numbers and Social Security cards, as well as replacements for lost or stolen cards for all United States citizens. A Social Security card/number identifies the monthly benefits for individuals who are fully insured. Provides information about and assists with filing for social security benefits. Benefit amounts depend upon date of birth, wages earned, and the type of benefit.