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

Helps youth with disabilities plan and prepare for life after high school. HireAbility Vermont vocational counselors work with both students and school personnel. Services include career counseling, assessment, job search skills, work experiences, exploration of post-secondary education and training programs, workplace readiness, instruction in self-advocacy, and guidance and information on IEP and transition planning, 504 accommodations, benefits planning, and other needed services.

Provides a 24-hour therapeutic treatment environment in a residential setting with consistent supervision and support in achieving individualized treatment goals. Clinical services include intensive family counseling along with individual, group, and milieu therapy.

Provides monthly cash assistance to low-income households in which a person's care or services are essential to an elderly or disabled person's remaining in his or her home. Benefit can be directly deposited into a bank account, or put onto an EBT card.

Maintains a limited supply of small durable medical equipment to be loaned out as needed. Equipment includes bed assist bars and other supports; mobility assistance: canes, quad canes, and crutches, knee scooters, walkers, wheelchairs, and transport chairs; showering and toileting equipment; and tools for daily living assistance.

Provides social and emotional support for children with challenging behavior and/or who have or are experiencing trauma, and consultation and partnership with families and early care and education providers.

Assists with such needs as personal needs items and emergency dental care (including extractions) for relief of pain, bleeding, and infection. Provides means to return to the state of legal residence for people who are stranded.

Offers apprenticeship programs for early childhood educators in order to gain education and experience in the field. Also offers pre-apprenticeship programs, which combine classroom-based learning and on-the-job learning, for high school students interested in a career in early childhood education.

Provides a voluntary, confidential alternative to the regular court process, which allows selected offenders the opportunity to take responsibility for their actions and make amends to victims and to the community. The offender meets before a Community Review Board that creates an individualized contract. The contract attempts to repair the harm done to the community and the victim. Upon completion of the contract, the charge is dismissed. Two years later the record is sealed.

Helps youth with disabilities plan and prepare for life after high school. HireAbility Vermont vocational counselors work with both students and school personnel. Services include career counseling, assessment, job search skills, work experiences, exploration of post-secondary education and training programs, workplace readiness, instruction in self-advocacy, and guidance and information on IEP and transition planning, 504 accommodations, benefits planning, and other needed services.

Operates the Share the Harvest stand offering free produce donated by local farmers, gardeners, and help-yourself gardens. Volunteers are welcome and can sign up online to volunteer.

Provides free, confidential face-to-face and/or online business advice and mentoring. Volunteer mentors can provide insight into how to start a business, operate and grow a business, buy or franchise a business, and sell a business.

Provides restorative interventions for youth and youthful offenders involved with the juvenile justice system, at risk of becoming involved with the juvenile justice system, and/or truant. Aims to decrease risk factors and strengthen protective factors in order to reduce or eliminate further involvement in the system. Offers community restorative practices.

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 door-to-door transportation in lift-equipped vans to individuals unable to use public transportation. Eligible clients may use transportation for medical appointments as well as errands, shopping, and other non-medical appointments. Offers volunteer driving opportunities.

Offers financial assistance for expenses such as medications, medical equipment and supplies, transportation, private care or respite care, nutritional support, clothing, and prostheses.

Offers education and assistance regarding the transition from high school to adult life for students with disabilities. Included is a specialized education program that enables youth to learn self-advocacy skills and participate more effectively in all areas of their transition planning. Maintains a comprehensive electronic Transition Toolkit for Youth for Disabilities for families, professionals and youth.

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.

Provides a Thanksgiving dinner.

Provides assistance for people who need housing, including information and guidance about rental costs; how to select affordable housing that meets individual needs; and how to provide for insurance, utility costs, and other requirements related to paying for housing. Coordinates with other providers in the community to help individuals and families obtain or maintain housing. May offer limited financial assistance with rent, rental deposit, and other payments. Also provides information on tenant rights and responsibilities.

Provides free primary medical care, including management of acute and chronic diseases, physical exams, wellness education, women's clinics, care management, referrals to participating specialists when medically necessary, and assistance obtaining pharmaceuticals. Also provides a community health vending machine which dispenses harm reduction and hygiene supplies located outside on the center's grounds.

Provides the equipment and 24-Hour personal response services that connect users to trained associates who can send help quickly, allowing at-risk individuals to continue to live as independently as possible. Activation of the emergency response system can provide an immediate professional response to emergency situations such as falling. Some services include fall detection. Also provides medication dispensing equipment.

Provides a personal line of credit that can be used for health care, dental care, or veterinary care. There is no interest ONLY IF ALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS ARE PAID ON TIME. Promotional periods vary based on dollar amount charged. If the balance is not paid by the end of the promotional period, the whole amount of interest accrued will be owed.

Provides emergency shelter, safety, and basic needs. Participants also receive information about resources as they develop a plan to address their immediate needs.

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.