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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.

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

Assists with personal needs items and incidentals expense assistance as well as emergency dental, medical, and prescription assistance, medical supplies and equipment assistance, and burial costs.

Provides information about climate change and health. Cold weather topics include shoveling and heart attacks, what to do if the power goes out, and wood stove safety. Hot weather topics include heat safety tips and heat illnesses. Also provides a searchable map of indoor cooling centers.

Offers reparative panels as a form of community-sponsored probation that brings convicted offenders before a volunteer panel of citizens as part of their sentencing process. Panels work with victims and offenders to identify the harm caused by the crime and how that harm can be repaired while holding the offender responsible and accountable.

Provides coed program of career and life-time vocational opportunities through partnerships with business, industry, law enforcement agencies, business associations, churches, and community organizations.

Offers gently-worn secondhand clothing, linens, housewares, furniture, antiques, collectables, and jewelry. TheThrift Shop accepts direct donations from the public.

Provides transportation for older adults aged 60 or older and people with ADA disabilities for whom regular bus service does not work. Offers rides to medical appointments, senior meal sites, shopping, social activities, errands, and essential services. Offers volunteer driving opportunities.

Provides access to a set of service options that help older adults in their communities remain safely and independently in their homes as they age. Also provides a registered nurse for home health services. Services may include assessments, consultation, case management, foot care, uncomplicated wound care, and blood pressure screenings. Services available to participants may include transportation, companionship, social activities, opportunities for community involvement, and help with home chores.

Provides information about child care providers, such as when they became licensed, if they are accredited or have a STARS rating, and if they've had any licensing violations in the past year. Also provides a way to voice a concern about a provider (for example, they are unregulated, there is lack of supervision or too many children, unqualified or not enough staff, inappropriate guidance and discipline, unsafe environment), or make a formal complaint about a child care provider.

Provides information on degrees and credentials, career paths, and required skills and competencies for people interested in a career in early childhood education.

Provides bereavement support groups that serve as a source of help, compassion, and understanding for families and individuals who have had a loved one pass as a result of substance abuse or addiction.

Offers free and confidential HIV testing and counseling. Tests chiefly use a finger stick, but an oral swab is available if necessary. Results are obtained in 20 minutes.

Sponsors a weekly community supper. Also provides a Christmas lunch on Christmas Day.

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

Provides representation to individuals in the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections. Provides representation to juveniles in delinquency proceedings, and to parties in juvenile proceedings including children in need of care and supervision (CHINS) and termination of parental rights cases. Individuals in extradition, probation or parole revocation proceedings are also represented.

Provides free, confidential online and telephone business advice and mentoring. Volunteer mentors can provide insight into how to start a business, operate and grow a business, buy or franchise a business, and sell a business.

Provides a confidential support and information hotline. Person-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.

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

Coordinates/Provides transportation to medical appointments, as well as dental, vision, counseling, Fair Hearing, prescription pick-up, and other covered transportation services for eligible Medicaid recipients. Offers volunteer driving opportunities.

Provides fast track medical services to individuals who have minor medical problems that do not require complex diagnostic work, including colds, flu, infections, muscle strains and sprains, cuts, insect stings and bites, rashes and stomach aches.

Promotes volunteerism and provides assistance with finding volunteer opportunities within the community, Provides an online volunteer match/referral service where individuals who would like to volunteer in their communities can find a listing of opportunities and where agencies and organizations seeking volunteers can post volunteer opportunities. During times of regional disasters or emergencies provides information intended to help everyone in their communities get to the resources they need quickly and efficiently.

Provides an offender re-entry program that is designed to address and repair the harm done to the community and the offender's victims while reducing the barriers to successful re-entry of offenders back into the community as citizens.

Provides screening, diagnostics, and treatment planning services for people who are experiencing acute or chronic psychiatric problems. Offers individual, group, conjoint (couples), and family counseling, therapy groups, medication and other mental health services for community residents, including those who have may be experiencing difficulty resolving personal or interpersonal conflicts or making personal adjustments to stressful life situations.

Provides shelter and care for surrendered and stray animals, including dogs, cats, and other small furry pets. Facilitates pet adoptions, matching shelter animals with appropriate households. Also offers low-cost microchip clinics, volunteer opportunities, dog training, and educational programs on pet care.