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Strengthening Families Programs (SFP) provides parenting and life skills training programs for parents with substance use disorders and to prevent substance use in their children.

Provides prenatal and postpartum support including childbirth education, breastfeeding support, parenting strategies, coping skills, and information on health and safety issues.

Provides criminal history information to individuals or employers. VCIC also maintains a list of Fingerprint Identification Centers for individuals whose employment or volunteer duties may require fingerprinting, as well as a Criminal History Repository.

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 a corporate employee engagement program to create care packages for dialysis patients. Educates employees of local corporations about kidney disease and the effect on their community. Encourages sponsorship of an activity where staff put together care packages that will be sent to local dialysis centers.

Provides educational presentations on domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, human trafficking, sexual harassment, and related topics to schools, churches, businesses, medical staff, law enforcement, and community organizations. Presentations can be tailored to meet specific organization needs.

Provides occasional nursing and rehabilitative therapies in the patient's home. Skilled Nursing Services include nursing care, case management, and client and family education. Provides clients with social workers who offer coordination of community services and resources, client and family counseling, and navigating the health care system. Licensed Nursing Assistants provide home health assistance, including personal care assistance, light housekeeping, and help with normal daily living activities.

Offers help with payment for child care. Support varies according to need.

Provides public awareness and education to promote community wellness and to reduce substance use and abuse, with an emphasis on youth substance use prevention. Collaborates with other wellness programs, youth-serving organizations, schools, and communities to help them promote healthy behaviors and reduce health risks.

Provides a community-wide, coordinated effort to identify, assess and find appropriate options for individuals and families experiencing homelessness seeking housing or related services, and/or for those at imminent risk of becoming homeless.

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.

Provides comprehensive and coordinated long-term care in an individual's home. Services include homemaker assistance, medication management, and assistance with the activities of daily living, including personal care and respite care. Also provides caregiving to clients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI’s).

Provides a crisis intervention program that offers face-to-face recovery coaching to individuals admitted to Copley Hospital Emergency Department.

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

Provides information about local child care providers. Also offers information on what to look for in quality child care.

Provides a bi-monthly community dinner.

Offers learning through provision of access to online courses available to all library users.

Provides professional interpretation and translation services in 47 different languages to enable organizations to communicate with their clients who speak limited English.

Issues Vermont's Disabled Plates and Windshield Placards that allow individuals to park in designated spaces in public areas or in front of their homes. Also allows parking for unlimited periods of time in time limit zones as well as parking in metered parking areas without paying fees.

Works to reduce the over-population of unwanted cats by stabilizing barn cat colonies and reducing the number of free-roaming cats through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR). Organizes humane trapping of unowned and loosely owned cats from farms, outbuildings, and the streets; provides spay/neuter services, vaccinations, and needed medical care; and returns them to their original environment or partners with other agencies that place adoptable animals in appropriate homes. Also provides periodic spay/neuter clinics.

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

Provides mostly disposable children's diapers up to size 8.

Responds to reports of suspected child abuse and neglect, and helps parents get the services and supports they need. Vermont Department for Children and Families Family Services Division (DCF/FSD) is also responsible for placing children in temporary out-of-home care when necessary to keep them safe, working with parents and relatives toward children's safe return home, and finding permanent homes for children who can't return home safely. The program provides a hotline number for reporting suspected cases of child abuse, neglect, or risk of harm. Social workers who answer the line take reports, conduct investigations, assess families, and make recommendations for services to alleviate family stress and improve parenting skills.

Offers online and in-person firearm, bow hunting, and trapper courses. Seminars also available. Website also provides a way to replace lost hunter education cards ("orange cards").