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Provides shelter; medical treatment; and other basic care for stray and surrendered animals, including dogs, cats, and other small pets. Facilitates adoption of shelter animals, matching pets with the most appropriate households. Helps reduce feline overpopulation through a trap/neuter/return program for free-roaming (feral) cats. Provides a Foster Care Program that includes food and supplies for foster care volunteers caring for pregnant cats and dogs, animals recovering from minor surgery, and animals in extreme stress in the shelter environment. Provides a wide array of donation and volunteer opportunities.

Provides young adults with short-term, crisis intervention and inpatient care services for severe mental health and addiction problems.

Provides comprehensive specialized care via a team that includes a neurologist, speech and language pathologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, nurse, nutritionist/dietician, clinical social worker, palliative care provider, clinical pharmacist, and an ALS care services manager.

Provides limited financial assistance for utilities and rent.

Provides drug awareness teams to inform about addiction and recovery in public places throughout the state. Public awareness events are offered in partnership with local businesses and organizations where Teen Challenge participants make available written materials and personal testimonies to educate youth and adults on the dangers of drug and alcohol addiction.

Provides volunteers to support and assist individuals who need occasional help to be able to live independently. Assistance includes friendly visiting, errand running, grocery shopping, Meals on Wheels delivery, and transportation to medical appointments. Volunteers do not provide caregiving, laundry, or cleaning services.

Provides a monthly community meal.

Provides a full range of supportive services for individuals with a limited life expectancy and their families. Also provides comprehensive palliative and support care to individuals in need of pain and other symptom management, whether or not they have a life limiting illness. Provides bereavement support services that include individual grief counseling and/or support groups.

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 a telecommunications relay service that connects Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech-impaired individuals with users of conventional telephones.

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 community-based supports to assist youth with successful transition to adulthood. Provides youth not sleeping at home services that include provision of shelter homes while team intervention helps to resolve issues of conflict or stress. Offers intensive support programs to facilitate skills development in community-based and home settings. Respite Services provide hourly and overnight mentoring and supervision to enhance family functioning. Emergency overnight respite alleviates stressors impacting client and family functioning.

Provides supplemental food for families with young children. WIC also provides breastfeeding support and nutrition education. Participants can get Farm to Family coupons to use at local farmers' markets.

Maintains military discharge records from World War I to the present on veterans who entered military service from Vermont. Provides verification of military service necessary for all veteran-related benefits. Assists veterans with obtaining records from other states or from National Personnel Archives.

Provides a monthly cash benefit to qualified workers unable to work for a year or more because of a disability. Also offers a process to file an appeal.

Helps youth with disabilities plan and prepare for life after high school. HireAbility Vermont vocational counselors work with both students and school personnel. Services include career counseling, assessment, job search skills, work experiences, exploration of post-secondary education and training programs, workplace readiness, instruction in self-advocacy, and guidance and information on IEP and transition planning, 504 accommodations, benefits planning, and other needed services.

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 specialized short-term, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment for PTSD, alcohol misuse, drug addiction, anxiety, and depression as a consequence of their professional experiences. Treatment is offered as a remote clinical service.

Provides driver training or re-training to adaptive driving candidates. Adaptive equipment is provided as necessary. Also provides services to individuals with learning challenges, anxiety, or low vision.

Provides a transitional housing program to individuals leaving incarceration and transitioning to the community.

Provides custom-fitted window inserts to reduce heating costs and waste by lowering heat loss through windows. Trained volunteers measure windows in home and the inserts are made to order by volunteers. The inserts are easily installed and removed, low cost, and free to those who cannot afford the cost.

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

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.

Manages 6 correctional facilities throughout the state. Provides website about each facility, with visitation schedule and links to information.

Provides a safe, supervised, substance-free environment and a place to socialize, study, access the Internet, listen to music, and explore interests.