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Increases access to fresh fruits and vegetables by offering cooking demonstrations and taste tests to visitors at food shelves and other community locations, while also increasing capacity of food shelves to stock fresh produce. The program provides support to community food shelves with strategies that help make it easier for food shelf visitors to choose fruits and vegetables. Produces a handbook that provides information on over 40 fruits and vegetables grown in Vermont that includes their nutritional value, storage advice, preparation tips, and recipes.

Promotes and supports the implementation of effective evidence-based suicide prevention, intervention, and post intervention programs and strategies in schools, communities, and Vermont institutions of higher education.

Provides training designed to prevent child sexual abuse. Training's can be delivered as webinars, community workshops, and comprehensive multi-day organizational trainings including trainer certifications.

Provides support to personal care homes, assisted living facilities, and skilled nursing communities to stabilize operations, and to help navigate crises, compliance, and culture change.

Provides a telephone and/or face-to-face response to individuals in crisis. This service offers an immediate intervention and suicide prevention response by mental health counselors and connects individuals to resources that best fit the needs of their particular situations. Within the First Call program there are specialized services such as crisis case management, crisis respite, support services when a tragic event impacts a child, as well as Safety Net, an urgent response service for families impacted by incarceration. First Call also provides education, support, and "Gatekeeper Training" to community providers to promote prompt and appropriate response to mental health crises.

Offers on demand, recorded trainings that help professionals, family members, and other community helpers involved with caring for older adults develop the skills they need to function more effectively in the workplace.

Provides information, guidance, and problem-solving assistance to childcare providers and after school programs. Consultants may help diagnose organizational strengths and weaknesses, as well as identify and develop best practices.

Offers choice of a 15-hour educational course (over 2 days) or 4-hour seminar for mental health care providers. Course/seminar is taught by a trained peer, a family member, and a provider with lived experience related to mental health conditions.