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Provides free college courses for Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) staff and Vermonters who are incarcerated, including textbooks and fees.

Provides a crisis intervention program that offers face-to-face recovery coaching to individuals admitted to North Country Hospital Emergency Department.

Provides local bus service with connecting service to Brattleboro and Bennington. Deviated fixed routes within one-quarter mile of route are available.

Provides rehabilitative therapies including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech language pathology to help individuals recovering from surgery, stroke, or illness. Also provides pediatric rehabilitative therapies.

Provides an intensive family learning program that includes parent education and support, job skills training, and help with completing high school education. Provides parents with consumer information about local Early Headstart, Headstart, home-based care, and child care centers. Also provides information on what to look for in quality child care. Offers on-going parent education workshops and classes. Coordinates community-based, professionally facilitated open play times are offered to children and their grown-ups.

Provides a range of services designed to stabilize children and families and promote children's successful adjustment in the community. Services may include outpatient services, respite care, therapeutic case management, school-based services and support, crisis residential services, child psychiatry, specialized foster care, and consultation.

Manages a fund used to help certain Vermonters pay for a delivery of heating fuel. Fuel dealers sign up to pledge to make a fuel delivery to one of their customers per winter. The fund pays back the dealer for half of the delivery. Any Vermonter can donate to the fund. Neighbors and friends can nominate someone to receive the free delivery.

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

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

Exercises guardianship on behalf of the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) to protect the well-being, rights, and welfare of people who are determined by the court to be in need of supervision, protection, or assistance, and lack the active assistance of a family member or private guardian. The program also provides Representative Payee Services to persons receiving and managing Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI), whether they are under public guardianship, or as an effective alternative to guardianship. Representative Payee Services will arrange for public benefit checks (usually Social Security or SSI) to be sent to a public agency, nonprofit organization, bank, relative or other individual who has been appointed under federal law to act as a surrogate for recipients in situations where they have a cognitive impairment and are unable to manage their own funds.

Provides demand-responsive, door-to-door transportation for seniors and individuals with disabilities to senior meal sites, medical appointments including dialysis and chemotherapy, adult day care, employment-related appointments, social events, shopping, and other services and activities.

Provides safe, confidential, temporary emergency shelter and supportive services.

Offers weekend retreats centered on provision of leadership development opportunities through the scope of social justice and empowerment.

Assists schools, students and families in the development and implementation of strategies to overcome barriers to school attendance.

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 transportation to and from non-Medicaid medical appointments, meal sites, senior centers, social activities, shopping and pharmacy trips, radiation and dialysis treatment, and general daily needs. Offers volunteer driving opportunities.

Oversees complaints of violations of civil law. These include violations of laws regarding traffic, the environment, fish and wildlife, hazing, and minors' possession of alcohol and tobacco. Also includes violations regarding animal control, cruelty to animals, public nuisances, junkyards, recycling, liquor control, non-criminal marijuana violations, health regulation, and zoning.

Manages 6 correctional facilities throughout the state. Provides website about each facility, with visitation schedule and links to information.

Provides home pre-purchasing counseling and foreclosure prevention counseling, as well as general homebuyer education.

Sells new and gently used furniture, building supplies, appliances, tools, housewares, and home improvement products. Some sites may include clothing. Accepts donations of used vehicles for scrap. Proceeds help to fund area Habitat for Humanity projects.

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.

Works with households to resolve emergencies involving home heat and electrical disconnection notices using programs and funds available and helps with applications. Electric heat assistance is limited to households with primary heat source of electricity or electricity that is essential to keeping other types of heating systems operational. The Wood Warms Program provides two free cords of wood to eligible households that heat entirely with wood or that supplement their primary heat source by burning wood.

Head Start (ages 3-5) and Early Head Start (ages 0-3) provide high-quality education, healthy meals, medical and dental screenings, and holistic support for the entire family to prepare children for kindergarten and beyond. Head Start also connects families to social services and resources for housing, employment, education, food, health, mental health counseling, substance use disorder, domestic violence, English as a Secondary Language, and other family needs. Space is reserved for children with special needs (hearing, speech, vision impairment, emotional or physical challenges). Families with foster children are automatically eligible. A limited number of families that exceed the income guidelines can enroll.

Provides professional assistance with the assessment and development of plans for the care of individuals who, because of age, illness, disability or other difficulties, need assistance in planning and arranging for in-home care services. Putney's community Registered Nurse will coordinate the delivery of needed services, provide assistance/education around following medical advice and proper medication taking, assess in-home mobility safety to reduce the risk of falls, assist families with understanding the issues and needs of the family member requiring in-home care services, and provide ongoing follow-up visits to ensure the best possible health outcomes. All services provided are confidential and specific to each individual's needs.