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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 USDA food commodities, 3SquaresVT application assistance, and seasonal Farm to Family coupons. Farm to Family coupons can be used at farmers markets and farm stands.Also offers diapers. Provides Thanksgiving baskets of sides for the meal and a voucher to purchase a turkey. Also offers a cooked take-out Thanksgiving meal with turkey and all the trimmings.

Provides homeowners with a source of low-cost financing for the repair or replacement of failed septic and/or drinking water supply systems.

Provides new and/or used clothing and household goods. Also provides free clothing and household goods to families in need.

Provides education and resources to prevent injuries of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults to the general public. Focuses primarily on unintentional injury prevention through education, media initiatives, participation in safety fairs as well as other local injury prevention efforts. Provides safe child passenger seat installation information and child seat inspection location information.

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 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 shelter services to persons experiencing homelessness.

Provides small, limited, community food services, consisting of fresh produce from local farms and organizations. Residents are encouraged to take what they need and/or donate what they can in support of the Farmstand. They also offer a variety of farmstand tasks for volunteers.

Offers a 12 Step recovery program for individuals who wish to stop the compulsive behavior of debting. Also provides information about dates, times, and locations of meetings.

Provides MAT (medication-assisted treatment) for adults struggling with opioid use disorder. Provides assessment and treatment for opiate addiction. Services include screening intake, assessment, treatment planning, methadone maintenance and medically supervised withdrawal, counseling services, case management and referral, medical services for opioid disorder, discharge planning, and follow-up.

Provides formal supervision of offenders released conditionally on probation or parole or confined to their homes or other venues in the community.

Maintains a database of information about programs that offer free and/or discounted prescription drugs.

Provides outpatient substance disorder treatment that includes assessment and mental health evaluations, observed and random urinalysis screenings, individual, family and couples counseling, child and family therapy, clinical group treatment, coordination of case and care management, aftercare and peer support. Co-occurring mental health needs may also be addressed. The program works with the hub at the Howard Center in management of medication assisted treatment (MAT) and required counseling as a spoke in Vermont's Care Alliance for Opioid Addiction.

Provides support for individuals in crisis through a confidential and secure texting intervention model that allows trained crisis counselors to receive texts and respond quickly to texters. Trained crisis counselors respond within five minutes to help texters out of a moment of crisis by providing guided safety planning and assisting with the creation of plans on how texters can continue to feel better.

Provides comprehensive and coordinated long term care in an individual's home. Services include case/care management, homemaker assistance, and assistance with the activities of daily living. Also provides Medicaid Waiver, community-based one-to-one long term care services to individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

Provides a community lunch.

Provides an online directory of its member psychologists and other mental health providers statewide by practice, focus areas, and city.

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 loans of mobility equipment, such as wheelchairs, walkers, crutches and canes, as needed.

Provides tax information and assistance with tax filing preparation and e-filing of federal and state income tax returns, as well as assistance with filing for renters' rebates and homestead declarations at three locations. Also provides services for those filing basic self-employment returns (sole proprietors who do not carry inventory or depreciation).

Provides tax information and assistance with tax filing preparation and e-filing of federal and state income tax returns, as well as assistance with filing for renters' rebates and homestead declarations at three locations. Also provides services for those filing basic self-employment returns (sole proprietors who do not carry inventory or depreciation). Home-based assistance with renters' rebates is available for people who are homebound.

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 a smartphone app (Transit) with real time bus information and trip planning.

Provides telephone and face-to-face crisis intervention services for individuals whose emotional distress may range in severity from difficulty in coping with daily stress to the crisis of a psychotic episode. Enhanced Mobile Crisis Services provide rapid mobile response for individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis. A trained 2-person team can meet the individual at home, workplace, or another community setting, providing support and comfort including safety plans, peer support, care coordination and follow up and, if needed, temporary overnight accommodation.