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

Provides evaluations for hearing sensitivity and speech understanding, tinnitus/hyperacusis, and offers consultations and fittings for hearing aids. Provides information on other assisted listening devices.

Provides a local shuttle around Bennington for shopping and other errands.

Provides emergency food shelf services. Provision of personal care items, disposable diapers, and pet food is dependent upon availability. Clothing also is offered.

Provides assistance for people who need housing including information and guidance about rental costs; how to select affordable housing that meets individual needs; and how to provide for insurance, utility costs, and other requirements related to paying for housing. Coordinates with other providers in the community to help individuals and families obtain or maintain housing. May offer limited financial assistance with rent, rental deposit, and other payments. Also provides information on tenant rights and responsibilities.

Offers new and used clothing, furniture, and household goods. Vouchers are available through other Listen programs.

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 an inpatient psychiatric unit offering a comprehensive program of general psychiatric care, through the use of individual, group and family therapies; action therapy groups; and psycho-education.

Works with households to resolve emergencies involving home heat and electrical disconnection notices using programs and funds available and helps 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.

Helps with the cost of buying a "qualified health plan" through Vermont Health Connect. "Assisters" throughout the state can help with applying.

Offers free information and non-legal advice about the rights and responsibilities of tenants and landlords in Vermont. Provides educational workshops and classes about Vermont's residential rental housing laws and codes, and enforcement policies. Class may include such topics as "Tenant Skills" and "Finding Housing." Also publishes the "Finding Common Ground: The Definitive Guide to Renting in Vermont," which summarizes Vermont's Landlord-Tenant laws. Other publications available include "An Illustrated Guide To Vermont Renter's Rights" and Vermont's Rental Housing Health Code.

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

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 money management counseling services that include credit counseling, debt counseling, personalized budgeting, school loan repayment counseling, bankruptcy counseling, and financial literacy training.

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 the public with an emergency alert messaging service via mobile phone, land line, text, and e-mail. Alerts include information about disasters, weather advisories, fire advisories, traffic bulletins, road closures bulletins, Amber Alerts, product safety alerts, hazardous materials advisories, and public health notifications. Individuals are able to choose receipt of alerts for the entire state or for specific areas within Vermont that they wish to be contacted about, such as their home locations, their relatives' home locations and their places of employment.

Provides support to personal care homes, assisted living facilities, and skilled nursing communities to stabilize operations, and to help navigate crises, compliance, and culture change.

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.

Assists individuals with regaining their licenses while they are paying off fines and fees. Program participants work with diversion staff to develop contracts that include a payment plan. Participants must satisfy the Vermont Judicial Bureau and the Department of Motor Vehicles requirements. Successful completion of program leads to criminal charges being dismissed.

Provides monthly supplemental nutrition assistance benefits to low-income households to purchase food. Households in which any person is younger than 65 access their benefit using a Vermont Express electronic benefits transfer (EBT) debit card. If everyone in a household is 65 or older, or receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), benefits are deposited as cash into the recipient's bank account. Expedited benefits are available in emergencies and other specific situations. EBT cards may also be used to buy fresh, local products at certain farmers' markets in Vermont. A list of farmer's markets that can accept EBT cards is available on the website. In addition, 3SquaresVT benefits may be used for seeds and plants that grow fruit and vegetables at any retailer or farmer's market that accepts EBT cards.

Provides a crisis intervention and assessment program that includes telephone or face-to-face consultation and assessment for admission to local and/or statewide residential crisis programs. Also provides crisis intervention referral services and follow-up.

Provides local bus service to general public and accommodates qualified riders with deviated routes. Seven bus routes: Blue Line: Bennington In Town serving healthcare and residential areas; Red Line: In Town serving retail and residential areas; Orange Line: Connecting the towns of Manchester, Arlington, Shaftsbury, Bennington; Purple Line: Connecting Bennington to Pownal and Williamstown, MA; Brown Line: Serving North Bennington and Bennington; and Green Line: Saturdays only, around Bennington.

Provides transportation services for clients of partnering health and human services agencies for medical and other appointments, essential shopping, and some educational outings. Offers volunteer driver opportunities.

Manages water and air quality, regulates solid and hazardous wastes, and administers a number of voluntary pollution and waste reduction programs. Program also provides environmental permit information and assistance, business and municipal compliance assistance, a number to call to report hazardous materials spills, and an Environmental Enforcement Division, which takes complaints regarding potential violations of Vermont's environmental laws. Also offers sampling of drinking water, well tests, and other resources during water-related emergencies.

Provides free clothing to individuals in need. Participates annually in providing free winter clothing. Types and sizes of winter clothing availability is dependent upon donations received.