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Provides play opportunities for parents and children to enable parents with young children to get together. A play group facilitator sets up play space with developmentally stimulating activities and acts as a resource for parents by providing advice, information about available resources, and community events.

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 2-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.

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 a free monthly meal.

Provides consumers with a federally mandated, free credit report annually, as well as fraud and identity theft services, and free credit marketing list removal (OptOut). Also offers a way to dispute information in a credit report.

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 stomachaches. Services include common immunizations, sports and school physicals, lab testing and x-rays.

Provides a weekly community breakfast.

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 case management, advocacy, information, social support, emergency financial assistance, housing assistance, transportation assistance, education, information and referral to social service organizations.

Provides a wide variety of mobility products including stair lifts (sales and installation), lift recliners, motorized scooters, power wheelchairs, manual wheelchairs, walkers, rollators, knee walkers, hospital beds, patient lifts and ramps for private homes, public schools or commercial enterprises. Also provides rentals of recliners, scooters, knee walkers, wheelchairs, hospital beds and ramps, and repairs may types of assistive equipment.

Offers apprenticeships in the following areas: Certified Public Bookkeeper, Manufacturing Production Technician, Medical Assisting, Medical Records Assistant, and Pharmacy Technician. All offerings pair credit-bearing classes with on-the-job learning.

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

Provides a variety of core services including emergency support and assistance. Services include problem-solving support, assistance accessing resources, prejob guidance, employment goal setting, budget counseling, tenant-landlord mediation, emergency food services, and emergency assistance with other basic needs such as utility payment assistance. Also provides assistance with filling out benefit program applications and other forms.

Provides individuals with a one time benefit of $120 for each eligible child to be able to purchase food during the summer.

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

Provides modest emergency financial assistance, for expenses such as gas cards, heating fuel, minor car repairs, rent, and other utility bills.

Provides transportation services for people with disabilities who are unable to use standard bus service. Service is provided within three-quarters of a mile of the fixed routes.

Offers a combined partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program. Programming offers online support that provides the tools, stategies, and experiences that will help individuals become more resilient, empowered, and successful in living a meaningful and productive life. Provides computer and smartphone access to a comprehensive team of licensed therapists, substance abuse counselors, and psychiatric prescribers.

Offers an eight-week full day camp with a different theme and activities each week. Includes breakfast, lunch, and snack.

Provides preventive health care as well as diagnosis and treatment of illness in children, adolescents and adults. Services include primary medical care such as physical health examinations, acute and chronic health screenings, obstetric care, laboratory testing, teen family planning and birth control counseling. 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 safe places to leave a baby anonymously and legally. A parent or his or her designee can bring a baby up to 30 days old to any Safe Haven in Vermont without fear of being arrested or charged as long as the baby has not been abused or neglected. To be covered by the Baby Safe Haven Law, the baby must be handed IN PERSON to a volunteer or employee of a Safe Haven. THE BABY CANNOT BE LEFT ALONE. A Safe Haven is any fire or police station, health care facility, place of worship, adoption agency licensed in Vermont, or a place that an emergency responder contacted through 9-1-1 agrees to meet the parent or person acting on the parent's behalf.

Manages a home medical equipment loan and exchange program where individuals in need can either donate, borrow or exchange used in-home medical equipment that assists with daily living.

Provides confidential support and information. 24-hour hotline. Survivor-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 help to taxpayers who have a tax dispute with the IRS about an audit, tax debt, levy, or lien. Help in understanding letters sent from the IRS. Offers education and outreach events and materials to help taxpayers understand their tax responsibilities get benefits (like the Earned Income Tax Credit) they may qualify for.

Provides a search engine on which to find local programs that offer free gun safety kits, and information and materials about gun safety to the public and to schools.