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Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations. Provides home delivery of pantry items to qualifying individuals.

Offers secondary school students the opportunity to earn up to 6 college credits while still enrolled in high school. Classes may be online or in-person.

Provides a monthly community lunch to eat in or take out.

Provides support to disabled American veterans, including assistance with applying for disability benefits, health care, death benefits, vocational rehabilitation and employment, education, discharges, and military records. Also provides transportation to medical appointments.

Constructs energy efficient, affordable homes in partnership with eligible families. The houses are sold to the partner families at cost, with no profit and no interest. Costs are kept low by using donated materials and volunteer labor.

Offers after-school enrichment programs in Brattleboro (serving Brattleboro and Guilford), and in Dummerston. Also offers summer camp programs for children in and out of the region in Springfield, with bussing from many towns. The Y-ASPIRE after-school programs run all 180 days of the school year and include programming on in-service days, parent-teacher days, and school vacation days. Y Day Camp program runs for 8 weeks in summer when school is not in session. Also available are "specialty camps" like mountain biking and adventure camp; a Leader in Training and a Counselor in Training programs.

Provides a free resting place where individuals can escape the elements and have a nutritious meal. Also includes a small emergency food pantry and a clothing closet with winter jackets, sweatshirts, gloves, boots, scarves, hats, and socks. Also provides a warming center and a cooling center depending on extreme weather. They provide a Thanksgiving and Christmas Meal.

Provides telephone and face-to-face crisis intervention services for individuals whose emotional distress may range in severity from difficulty in coping with daily stress to the crisis of a psychotic episode. Enhanced Mobile Crisis Services provide rapid mobile response for individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis. A trained two-person team can meet the individual at home, workplace, or another community setting, providing support and comfort including safety plans, peer support, care coordination and follow up and, if needed, temporary overnight accommodation.

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

Provides intensive wraparound services based on the distinctive needs, strengths, values and preferences of the child and family. Services include clinical case management; comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment; psychiatric consultation and medication management; individual, group and family therapy; substance abuse services; respite, education, community skills training; family reintegration; parent education; 24-hour crisis response; and other individualized services as needed.

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items are often available as well.

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.

Places individuals in paid community service positions, up to 20 hours per week, for the purpose of training and improvement of skills that may lead to permanent employment. Participants may be offered supportive services such as transportation, counseling, work equipment, and other supports.

Provides medication and cannabis lock boxes and pouches, Deterra at-home medication disposal bags, and works closely with the Hartford Police Department in support of the National Prescription Drug Take Back Days to promote safe disposal of unused prescription medication.

Offers a series of health-related workshops and presentations for the community, many of which are offered by health professionals. Information about local wellness programs is provided online and is also published in flyer form. Topics can include movement and exercise, nutrition, chronic disease self-management, and health/disease specific support group meetings.

Provides primary health care, as well as prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness. Services include primary medical care such as physical health examinations, immunizations, acute and chronic health screenings, obstetric care, laboratory testing, and birth control counseling. Provides onsite integrated health services to enhance access to appropriate prevention, treatment, recovery and wellness services and activities. 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 family dentistry services. Comprehensive clinical care services include: preventive, restorative, extractions, crown and bridge, periodontal services, and minor implant restorations.

Provides service coordination, family supports, shared living arrangements, residential crisis services, respite support, community supports, employment supports, personal care services, medical coordination, psychiatric services, medical in-service and care-giver training, and financial management.

Provides a traveling dental trailer staffed by professionals offering comprehensive dental hygiene care that includes dental cleanings, screenings, fluoride treatments, x-rays, and sealants.

Provides interactive tools for finding Vermont state parks (Find a Park) and trails in both Vermont and New Hampshire (Trail Finder). Also available is an online and phone number registration system for reserving campsites, cabins, cottages, picnic areas and group sites in Vermont state parks. Park passes can be purchased online.

Governs labor relations primarily between public sector employers and employees, including Vermont State Colleges, University of Vermont, school districts, and small private operations. The Board determines appropriate bargaining units, conducts union representation elections, adjudicates unfair labor practice charges, and arbitrates grievances.

Provides a free "Spay the Mom Program" to mom dogs and cats. After weaning their litters, all offspring are surrendered to the Humane Society. Appointments are made at local veterinarians for spays and vaccinations (rabies and distemper) for the mother. The offspring are spayed/neutered, microchipped, given age-appropriate vaccinations etc. and adopted to new families.

Supports the successful re-entry into the community of people released from incarceration through Circles of Support and Accountability (COSAs). COSAs are made up of citizen volunteers who work with participants to help them learn to manage the challenges of everyday life, be accountable for their actions and become responsible community members. Volunteer coordinators may help establish links to employment, housing, transportation, and benefit programs.

Provides advice or representation for qualifying Vermonters with legal problems including: relief from abuse, housing, government benefit programs, consumer rights, and problems with the IRS.

Provides individualized outpatient substance use assessment and treatment services for adolescents who are dependent upon, or at risk of becoming dependent upon, alcohol or other substances. Also provides family substance use counseling for families dealing with adolescent addictions/substance use issues and provides group treatment services for adolescents. Provides information about alcohol and drug use, the effects on individuals, families and communities, as well as information to the public about strategies for prevention and early intervention. As the Public Inebriate Program's designated agency, provides assessment and placement of individuals requiring medically monitored detoxification.