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Provides a variety of services to support the health and well-being of neighbors. Services may include medical transportation, gas cards, welcome baskets, and new baby blankets.

Provides comprehensive primary and preventive health care, including on-site behavioral health professionals. Services include medical, mental health and substance abuse counseling, family planning, and lab services. The Community Health Pharmacy program offers discounted prescriptions to all patients. Also provided is eligibility support for State and Federal Benefits and low-cost drug manufacturer giving programs.

Receives public benefits, such as Social Security, on an individual's behalf. Sets up and manages their monthly budget. Mediates disputes with landlords, businesses, or service providers. Distributes remaining funds to the client throughout the month.

Offers a financial fitness education program that includes information on budgeting, saving, debt reduction, spending plans, and building credit.

Provides a variety of core services in the communities it serves, including emergency support and assistance for low-income families and individuals in crisis. Other services include problem-solving support, employment goal setting, budget counseling, tenant-landlord mediation, emergency food services, and emergency assistance with other basic needs such as utility payment assistance. Also provides assistance with filling out benefit program applications and other forms.

Provides nurses and/or other trained professionals who visit the homes of women during pregnancy and after childbirth to help them 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.

Provides an interactive decision support process that helps individuals in need of long term care and their families understand their strengths, needs, preferences and unique circumstances and weigh the pros and cons of available alternatives. The consultation includes a discussion of the factors to consider when making long term care decisions, information about the range of long term care support options available in their community (such as personal care, transportation and medication management) and resources that can help them pay for services. Maintains a regional listing of in-home assistance providers available to assist seniors with continuing to live independently at home.

Provides preventive health care as well as diagnosis and treatment of illness in children, adolescents and adults. Services include primary medical care such as physical health examinations, acute and chronic health screenings, obstetric care, laboratory testing, teen family planning and birth control counseling. 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 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.

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.

Inspects and licenses pet sellers, livestock dealers, transporters, and packers. Registers animal shelters, rescue organizations, certified euthanasia technicians, and their facilities. Provides a way to file a report about poultry and other domestic birds that died from a disease. Also publishes information about various diseases that affect livestock and poultry.

Offers a safe and fun place for youth in the community to spend time. The Hub provides games, food, art, activities, programs, and more.

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. The Wood Warms Program provides two free cords of wood to eligible households that heat entirely with wood or that supplement their primary heat source by burning wood.

Provides early childhood development materials that includes: milestones information, tips on having progress conversations with pediatricians, and information about other available resources. Offers a parenting kit, and a Milestone Tracker App that provides parents with easy-to-use illustrated checklists, tips, and activities to encourage a child's development.

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.

Hosts community and neighborhood forums that encourage community members to speak out, raise questions, process implications, resolve conflict and, where appropriate, make decisions on issues of significance to the commmunity. Facilitators help groups focus on the task, stimulate constructive debate, and promote equal member participation. Facilitates civil community conversations about difficult issues.

Provides youth employment services that include vocational testing and assessment to help identify skills, talents and experience; career guidance to help plan and map out a career strategy; tutoring and study skills training; summer employment opportunities; paid work experience including internships and job shadowing; leadership development opportunities; and support services to help overcome employment barriers.

Provides a program that empowers Vermonters to lead healthier lives through hands-on nutrition education. The Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is usually a six-session series held in home, school, or community settings. An online nutrition education series, Eat Smart, Move More, is also offered and participants can access lessons at their own pace while receiving one-on-one support from their closest EFNEP Educator via phone calls, zoom meetings, and emails. Topics covered may include meal planning and preparation, food budgeting with a limited income, food safety and preservation, and nutrition tips.

Provides resources for individuals experiencing issues related to drought, including resources for dry wells or drinking water shortages, tips for water conservation, ways to report drought impacts, and a interactive state map monitoring current drought conditions.

Provides complaint resolution to the public, as well as purchase and protection tips, business and charity reviews, consumer purchase planning trends, and customer reviews. The organization also provides the BBB Military Line for retired, active, and reserve military consumers and their families. Services include consumer education, financial education, and dispute resolution.

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 home pre-purchasing counseling and foreclosure prevention counseling, as well as general homebuyer education.

Helps families with children by providing case management services that support work, training and education, and cash grants for basic necessities. Reach Up helps with identifying skills, abilities, interests, training or education needs, preparation for work, childcare costs, transportation costs, and work-related costs such as clothing, tools, and supplies. Each person on Reach Up works with a case manager to create a Family Development Plan. Benefits paid through direct deposit or EBT card. Child-Only Reach Up provides cash assistance to help eligible adults care for the minor, dependent children of relatives or family friends. Reach First helps families overcome temporary, short-term financial crises and avoid the need for longer-term assistance, providing case management, financial help, and support services. Reach Ahead helps families transition from Vermont's Reach Up or Post-Secondary Education (PSE) programs to working, with supports to help maintain a job, including cash incentives for working and help paying for car repairs, work clothes, and work supplies, a 100% childcare subsidy, and a cash benefit for food.

Provides an interactive decision-support process that helps individuals in need of long term care and their families understand the services and assistance available in the community. Helps the individual identify their strengths, needs, preferences, and unique circumstances to weigh the pros and cons of available alternatives. Includes a discussion of the factors to consider when making long term care decisions, and information about the range of long term care support options (such as personal care, transportation, and medication management). Also helps to identify resources that can help to pay for services. Maintains a regional listing of in-home assistance providers available to assist seniors with continuing to live independently at home.

Provides formal supervision of offenders released conditionally on probation or parole or confined to their homes or other venues in the community.