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Provides workshops led by puppets and puppeteers that teach children how to keep themselves safe and healthy and to appreciate each other’s differences. Skits and workshops focus on effective leadership, problem-solving skills and demonstrate respect, compassion and inclusion in a diverse community.

Provides a post-secondary educational option offering two-year Associates Degree programs and Certificate Programs at twelve regional Academic Centers, as well as through the Center for Online Learning. Classes may be online or in-person.

Provides short-term help with budgeting. Also helps with applications for services to help individuals and families to navigate systems and community resources.

Provides a drop in center with access to snacks and coffee, showers, laundry facilities, email, a mailing address, telephones, access to the food shelf, and a kitchen to prepare meals. Also provides an overnight shelter with a place to sleep and a hot meal each night.

Provides a free resting place where individuals can escape the elements and have a nutritious meal. Also includes a small emergency food pantry and a clothing closet with winter jackets, sweatshirts, gloves, boots, scarves, hats, and socks. Also provides a warming center and a cooling center depending on extreme weather. They provide a Thanksgiving and Christmas Meal.

Assists individuals in completing applications for benefits, including housing applications, child care tuition subsidy application, health care application, disability applications, and application for financial assistance from Vemont Division of Economic Services. Assists with attempts to access local and state emergency financial assistance when applicable. Personal budgeting counseling sessions are offered and made available to all individuals seeking financial assistance.

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.

Offers resources to help find treatment for eating disorders

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.).

Offers a series of health-related workshops and presentations for the community, many of which are offered by health professionals. Information about local wellness programs is provided on line and is also published in flyer form. Topics may include movement and exercise, nutrition, chronic disease self-management, and health/disease specific support group meetings.

Provides rehabilitative therapies including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech language pathology to help individuals recovering from surgery, stroke, or illness. Also provides pediatric rehabilitative therapies.

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.

Provides airsealing improvements during the coldest months of the year for eligible home owners and renters (with permission from landlords) to assist in reducing heating costs by sealing windows, doors, and heating ducts.

Provides consumers with a federally mandated, free credit report annually, as well as fraud and identity theft services, and a way for consumers to Opt-Out of offers of credit or insurance. Also offers a way to dispute information in a credit report.

Partners with senior meal sites, senior centers, and restaurants 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.

Offers temporary home environment and care for surrendered cats, dogs or other small animals. Provides adoption services and enlists volunteers for variety of shelter tasks to assist the professional staff.

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 provides ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey is not included.

Offers a variety of exercise and aquatic program opportunities. Programs include entry-level exercise classes, group exercise classes, youth fitness classes and prescription exercise programs for participants referred by a physician, as well as water aerobics, family swim hours, swimming lessons, rock climbing clinics and more.

Provides tax information and assistance with tax filing preparation and e-filing of federal and state income tax returns, as well as assistance with filing for renters' rebates and homestead declarations at three locations. Also provides services for those filing basic self-employment returns (sole proprietors who do not carry inventory or depreciation). Home-based assistance with renters' rebates is available for people who are homebound.

Provides training to help adults who interact with children better understand the risks and benefits of the use of technology by children. Screen time and effects of technology on early brain development are discussed. Discussion also includes the major risks to children using technology, such as cyber-bullying, exposure to pornography, online gaming, and "sexting." Tools will be provided to identify options to help protect children from harmful messaging.

Provides transportation for older adults and people with disabilities for whom regular bus service does not work. Offers rides to medical appointments, senior meal sites, shopping, social activities, work, errands, and essential services. Offers volunteer driving opportunities.

Provides a warm, dry place for people in need due to power outages, flooding, or extreme cold temperatures.

Website provides information on state law, municipal permitting, and safety issues regarding fireworks and sparklers.

Provides a range of services designed to stabilize children and families and promote children's successful adjustment in the community. Services may include outpatient services, respite care, therapeutic case management, school-based services and support, crisis residential services, child psychiatry, specialized foster care, and consultation.

Provides community meals and home-delivered meals