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AGE WELL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM | AGE WELL

Provides volunteers to support and assist individuals who need occasional help to be able to live independently. Assistance includes friendly visiting, errand running, grocery shopping, Meals on Wheels delivery, and transportation to medical appointments. Volunteers do not provide caregiving, laundry, or cleaning services.

What's Here

Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation

WESTMINSTER CARES PROGRAMS | WESTMINSTER CARES

Provides programs that help individiuals to remain in their homes and connected to the community. Services may include transportation to medical appointments, shopping, friendly visits and reassurance calls, chores and yard work, and homemaker assistance. Also provides medical equipment loans, as well as a modest home heating assistance fund. The only wheelchair-accessible entrance to Westminster Cares is the back entrance.

What's Here

Home Delivered Meals
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Friendly Telephoning
General Yard Work
Homemaker Assistance
Friendly Visiting
Heating Fuel Payment Assistance
General Minor Home Repair Programs
Senior Ride Programs
Disability Related Transportation

AGE WELL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM | AGE WELL

Provides volunteers to support and assist individuals who need occasional help to be able to live independently. Assistance includes friendly visiting, errand running, grocery shopping, Meals on Wheels delivery, and transportation to medical appointments. Volunteers do not provide caregiving, laundry, or cleaning services.

What's Here

Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation

NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS | TUNBRIDGE NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS

Provides services that may include transportation, errand-running, friendly visiting, computer/internet assistance, occasional help with gardening and lawn care, loans of mobility equipment, delivery of food shelf items, and referrals to state, county, and federal services. Capacity to provide services is dependent upon availability of volunteers.

What's Here

Disability Related Transportation
Friendly Visiting
Senior Ride Programs
General Yard Work
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan

COMPASSIONATE CONTACT CORPS | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Offers a program where trained volunteers are matched with individuals experiencing loneliness or who are socially isolated. Volunteers typically call weekly for 15-60 minutes to provide socialization and companionship via phone or video calls, as needed. Individuals should contact their VA primary care physician or VA social worker. Individuals should contact their local VA Center for Development and Civic Engagement for volunteer opportunities.

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Friendly Visiting
Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Friendly Chat

MARLBORO CARES | MARLBORO CARES

Provides non-emergency assistance such as transportation, errand running, companionship, friendly telephoning, and a welcome baby program, referrals for a repair person or other services, or information. Marlboro Cares can also make referrals to other agencies, and offers educational programs on occasion. Ride requests require 48-hour notice; All other requests should be scheduled as far ahead as possible to ensure adequate response. Short notice of need will be met with every effort to help.

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General Paratransit/Community Ride Programs
Transportation Volunteer Opportunities
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Homemaker Assistance
Friendly Telephoning
Resource Passports for Newborns
Friendly Visiting
Senior Ride Programs

AGE WELL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM | AGE WELL

Provides volunteers to support and assist individuals who need occasional help to be able to live independently. Assistance includes friendly visiting, errand running, grocery shopping, Meals on Wheels delivery, and transportation to medical appointments. Volunteers do not provide caregiving, laundry, or cleaning services.

What's Here

Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation

DUMMERSTON CARES PROGRAM | DUMMERSTON CARES

Provides information and referrals for community, regional, and state services. The program also offers transportation to medical appointments, friendly visiting, medical equipment loans, assistance with minor home repairs and household chores, community programs on wellness issues and other topics, and an emergency fuel fund. All services are performed by volunteers.

What's Here

Certificates/Forms Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
General Minor Home Repair Programs
Heating Fuel Payment Assistance
Homemaker Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Friendly Visiting

BARNARD HELPING HANDS | BARNARD HELPING HANDS

Provides a variety of services to support the health and well-being of neighbors on a temporary basis. Services may include transportation, friendly visiting, certificates and forms assistance, yard work, assistance with errands, homemaker assistance, and minor home repairs and maintenance. Also provides one-time emergency financial assistance to individuals facing a short-term crisis as well as referrals to other agencies for more long term needs. Barnard Helping Hands in partnership with Barnard General Store maintains a food collection box to support Woodstock Community Food Shelf. They also work closely with the Hub in Woodstock, the Ottauquechee Health Foundation and the Woodstock Thomspon Senior Center.

What's Here

Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Homemaker Assistance
Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Ride Programs
General Yard Work
Disability Related Transportation
Home Delivered Meals

GUILFORD CARES SERVICES | GUILFORD CARES

Provides programs that help individuals to remain in their homes and connected to the community. Services may include transportation to medical appointments, shopping, and friendly visits, community nurse visits, referrals for other services, wellness classes and activities.

What's Here

Advance Medical Directives
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Friendly Visiting

VOLUNTEERS IN ACTION | MOUNT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER

Recruits volunteers and matches interests and abilities with community members in need. Administers a volunteer program and coordinates local volunteers with senior community members who would like friendly visiting sessions, telephone reassurance calls, and minor home repairs. Provides volunteer drivers to assist with transportation to needed services such as medical, dental, grocery shopping, senior meal sites, court dates, housing appointments, etc. This service is not a formal transportation service and provision of rides is dependent upon volunteer driver availability. One week advance notice appreciated for a ride request.

What's Here

Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Friendly Telephoning
Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Volunteer Recruitment/Placement
Senior Ride Programs
Telephone Reassurance
General Minor Home Repair Programs
Transportation Volunteer Opportunities

NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF THE NORTHSHIRE

Provides services to help people remain independent in their own homes. The Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) program's services include friendly visits, transportation to appointments, running errands, and doing small jobs around the house and garden. N2N also sponsors social events that keep people connected. Program does NOT provide any medical or financial assistance. Office is located on the first floor of the First Congregational Church building in Manchester.

What's Here

Friendly Visiting
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
General Yard Work
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation

VET2VET | SENIOR SOLUTIONS

Provides matches of older homebound veterans with younger or more mobile veterans from any branch of the military service for companionship and support. Can offer visiting and friendship, telephone reassurance, help with forms & correspondence, and other activities. Provided in partnership with Brattleboro American Legion Post 5.

What's Here

Friendly Visiting
Friendly Telephoning