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Offers a complete line of home health care products and services, including respiratory and home medical equipment, stairway lifts and scooters, and specialty products such as back and leg braces. Provides home assessments, free equipment delivery, in-home set-up and training, and 24 hour on call service.

Develops partnerships, coordinates volunteers, and offers program initiatives that address specific issues in health, community resiliency, and financial security.

Issues Firewood and Christmas tree Cutting Permits for use in Green Mountain National Forest. Also, through the Every Kid In A Park Program, a child's park pass can serve as a voucher for a free cut-your-own Christmas tree.

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.

Provides door-to-door van service. Van does NOT transport outside the towns of Essex and Essex Junction with the exception of travel to the Fanny Allen Campus of UVM Medical Center, UVM Medical Center Adult Primary Care Williston in Blair Park, and Evergreen Family Health. The Senior Van also will drop off at the Green Mountain Transit bus stop in the village for a transfer.

Provides an intensive inpatient treatment program that includes 24-hour nursing, on-site medical detoxification, individualized treatment, medication management, family and significant other programs, and management of co-occurring disorders.

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations. Provides about five days of food.

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 non-urgent health care. Includes exams, nutrition counseling, and mental health counseling. Women's health care services provided through partner providers in nearby locations. Also included are acute illness care, chronic care management, vaccines and tobacco cessation. Dental services include cleanings and evaluations. Offers referrals for extractions and fillings. Offers help with signing up for Medicaid, RRMC Free Care, and YOU First. Patients may get help with over-the-counter and prescription medications.

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 the Vermont Enhanced Driver License (EDL/ID), a border crossing document for US citizens without a passport who are returning home from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean or Bermuda, by land or sea. The EDL /ID is not accepted for international air travel. The EDL/ID is a Real ID-Compliant License, and a federal, Western Hemisphere Travel (WHT) Initiative-compliant document.

Provides public awareness and education to promote community wellness and to prevent the abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, with an emphasis on youth substance abuse prevention. Collaborates with other wellness programs, schools, and communities to help them promote healthy behaviors and reduce health risks.

Provides education and support, including support of individual developmental goals, and transition planning for services after early intervention. Coaches families and early care and education providers around individual child supports.

Provides fast track medical services to individuals who have minor medical problems that do not require complex diagnostic work, including colds, flu, infections, muscle strains and sprains, cuts, insect stings and bites, rashes and stomachaches. Services include common immunizations, sports and school physicals, lab testing and x-rays.

Operates a thrift shop that offers gently used clothing, household goods and baby furniture. Offers clothing to individuals and families in need at no cost.

Provides individuals with a one time benefit of $120 for each eligible child to be able to purchase food during the summer.

Provides educational presentations on domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, human trafficking, sexual harassment, and related topics to schools, churches, businesses, medical staff, law enforcement, and community organizations. Presentations can be tailored to meet specific organization needs.

Provides connection to contracted private homes for individuals in need of shared living arrangements to remain in their communities. Provides comprehensive, coordinated long-term care for individuals that have been matched with private home providers. Services include case/care management, homemaker assistance and assistance with the activities of daily living, including personal care and respite care that enables senoirs and individuals with permanent disabilities to live safely, comfortably and as independently as possible at home.

Provides presentations to high schools. Topics include sexual assault, dating violence, sexual harassment, and human trafficking.

Provides a warmline offering emotional support, practical guidance, and connects individuals with resources tailored to their specific situation.

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations. Provides about five days of food.

Provides a confidential support and information hotline. Person-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 free services to people who have disabilities that affect their ability to get jobs, keep them, or advance in their careers. Counselors and specialists in 12 district offices work together with an extensive network of partners to help participants assess their interests and skills, explore career options, obtain career-focused training, and secure jobs and career advancement.

Provides information on issues affecting young children and their families, including early childhood care, infant mental health, early language and literacy development, early intervention and the impact of culture on early childhood development.