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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.

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 ongoing support groups. Groups provide emotional support, information, and resources to help participants process and heal from their experiences.

Provides a safe, stable, drug and alcohol-free home and supportive services with the goal of helping residents transition to independent living and reassimilation into communities. Home environments are "family-style" where residents support one another in their recovery and cooperate to manage the household.

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 annual national prescription drug take back days, in partnership with Vermont law enforcement agencies. On specific days each year, unused prescription drugs and vaping devices may be disposed of at local drop off sites.

Owns and manages manufactured home parks in Franklin and Grands Isle Counties. Lots are rented at an affordable rate to mobile home owners.

Provides local bus service with connecting service to Brattleboro and Bennington. Deviated fixed routes within one-quarter mile of route are available.

Provides an intensive inpatient treatment program that includes 24-hour nursing, on-site medical detoxification, individualized treatment, medication management, family and significant other programs, and management of co-occurring disorders.

Provides partial wage replacement to eligible unemployed workers. Also offers the Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors' Transition Program, a special benefit program for individuals who have been forced to leave their employment due to domestic or sexual violence, including stalking. If an individual is disqualified for unemployment benefits, it provides temporary partial wage replacement if they had to leave employment for those reasons.

Provides presentations to high schools. Topics include sexual assault, dating violence, sexual harassment, and human trafficking.

Offers free basic income tax return preparation by trained volunteers at community locations. Volunteers can also help with special credits, such as Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit, and Credit for the Elderly. Many VITA sites offer free electronic filing. In addition to VITA, the Tax Counseling for the Elderly program offers free tax help for all taxpayers, particularly those who are 60 years of age and older, specializing in questions about pensions and retirement-related issues.

Offers a monthly community dinner.

Provides information about foster care and coordinates support and resources for foster parents of children in State of Vermont custody.

Provides one-stop centers that offer an array of employment and training services. Helps job seekers assess skills and interests, explore training options, create a job search plan, write a resume, and find a job. Job seekers can access computers, educational resources, and information on employers. Training and pre-job assistance services include ICAN, which pairs qualified individuals with an employment coordinator to assist them with resources, support services, job readiness skills, case management, and job placement.

Provides free temporary housing and care for animals in emergency situations (e.g. domestic violence, homelessness, and medical issues). If a pet owner is suddenly hospitalized or displaced by a house fire, for example, Upper Valley Human Society can take care of their pets so that they don’t have to surrender them. Emergency boarding is for a two-week period and can sometimes be extended, depending on the situation. Offered on a case-by-case basis due to limited capacity.

Provides public bus transportation services with local and long distance commuter routes. Provides commuter bus service with the Milton Commuter. Also provides long distance commuter bus service with the Montpelier and the Saint Albans Link Express routes.

Offers a weekly drop-in time for youth to work on bikes. Participants can spend the first half of the time in the shop volunteering in order to earn parts and personal instruction during the second half of the shop time.

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 MAT (medication-assisted treatment) for adults struggling with opioid use disorder. Provides assessment and treatment for opiate addiction. Services include screening intake, assessment, treatment planning, methadone maintenance and medically supervised withdrawal, counseling services, case management and referral, medical services for opioid disorder, discharge planning, and follow-up.

Community-based, professionally facilitated open play times are offered to children and their grown-ups.

Provides shelter, medical treatment for shelter pets, and other basic care for stray and surrendered pets, including dogs and cats. Facilitates adoption of shelter animals.

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations

Provides assistance programs in the form of Rehabilitation Loans, Emergency Repair Loans, Access Modification Grants, and Down payment Assistance (duplexes only).

Provides down payment zero interest loans towards the purchase of a single-family home. If the buyer owns and lives in the home for three or more years, the loan does not have to be repaid.