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Provides free parent-to-parent support and information about breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding, including local contacts for monthly meetings. La Leche leaders are familiar with research about all aspects of breastfeeding and educated to answer parent questions and concerns.

Provides individual and family counseling, individual and family crisis intervention services, family mediation, and short-term temporary emergency shelter in family homes that are made available by volunteer shelter parents.

Provides a flexible-schedule, flexible-route curb-to-curb service. MyRide is an on-demand travel service that takes multiple passengers heading in the same direction and books them into a shared vehicle.

Provides information to air travelers about traveling with food or gifts, liquids, acceptable identification at security checkpoints, and prohibited items. Also provides information to travelers with special needs, defined as travelers with disabilities and medical conditions; travelers with children; travelers traveling with special items; and military travelers.

Provides small, limited, community food services. Residents encouraged to take what they need and/or donate what they can in support of the pantry.

Offers a collection of five step by step video tutorials that help individuals move through the steps of common legal and benefit issues. Tutorial topics include divorce, relief from abuse orders, security deposits, small claims, and social security appeals. Also included is a video overview on what to expect when getting ready for a court hearing.

Provides children's hospital services and primary care services staffed by specialists who are concerned with the physical, emotional and social health of infants, children and adolescents from birth to young adulthood. Pediatricians have advanced training in the biological, social and environmental factors that have an influence on a developing child and have expertise in diagnosing and treating the acute and chronic diseases that are common to individuals in this age range.

Provides health care services at all community outpatient clinics. Homebound Veterans are served by Home Based Primary Care (HBPC). Additional services can include basic nursing services, telemedicine, patient advocacy, hospice care, and physical, occupational, or speech therapies through a Skilled Home Care service.

Provides weekly online peer support via Zoom led by trained volunteers who have recovered from their own eating disorder, or volunteer professionals in the eating disorder field.

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

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

Provides an emergency shelter program that includes case management. Also offers homeless prevention services and assistance in finding and applying for subsidized housing opportunities. Accepts donations of camping gear.

Provides non-emergency medical care. Also provides health education and referrals to other community health agencies when needed.

Makes available certified child passenger safety technicians who provide free child safety seat inspections at various permanent locations throughout Vermont, as well as occasional mobile sites. Inspections include checking for correct fit of the car seat to the child, proper installation of the car seat in the vehicle, and screening for car seat recalls. The child and the child’s safety seat must be present to receive personal instruction on proper installation and use. The website lists the locations that provide regularly scheduled and by-appointment child safety seat checks by county, as well as mobile site inspection events. Free car seats are available to income-eligible households.

Helps families with children by providing case management services that support work, training and education, and cash grants for basic necessities. Reach Up helps with identifying skills, abilities, interests, training or education needs, preparation for work, childcare costs, transportation costs, and work-related costs such as clothing, tools, and supplies. Each person on Reach Up works with a case manager to create a Family Development Plan. Benefits paid through direct deposit or EBT card. Child-Only Reach Up provides cash assistance to help eligible adults care for the minor, dependent children of relatives or family friends. Reach First helps families overcome temporary, short-term financial crises and avoid the need for longer-term assistance, providing case management, financial help, and support services. Reach Ahead helps families transition from Vermont's Reach Up or Post-Secondary Education (PSE) programs to working, with supports to help maintain a job, including cash incentives for working and help paying for car repairs, work clothes, and work supplies, a 100% childcare subsidy, and a cash benefit for food.

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.

Provides second-hand clothing and household goods, including baby furniture. Availability of clothing types and sizes is dependent upon donations made.

Provides training that introduces new riders to the public transit system and teaches them to use bus service effectively. Participants are educated first in a classroom setting and then paired with an experienced travel advisor to learn the basic components of the system, including routes, fares, schedules, and policies. Helps build confidence in riding the bus and traveling independently. Accepts volunteers to serve as travel advisors.

Encourages caregivers to practice good self-care and assists them in learning about resources that provide respite and enhance caregiving. This program also uses teaching strategies to reduce the stress of caregiving, work successfully with challenging behaviors, and develop good boundary-setting skills.

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 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.

Provides an overnight cold weather shelter.

Provides smartphone app with real time route information that shows potentially available on-demand transportation options. Buses may be able to pick up users if driver's current location allows.

Offers assistance in cat rescue, practices Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) service for ferals, provides spay/neuter services for stray cats and kittens and fosters strays until adopted into homes.

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.