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Provides Work Incentives Counselors who can help individuals decide whether to work, keep necessary benefits while they work, and avoid work/benefits conflicts. The program is also available to youth in high school who are in transition to adult life. Youth and their families can receive accurate information about the impact of employment on all Federal and State benefits they receive. Provides the Vermont Work/Benefits Helpline.

Provides a variety of core services including emergency support and assistance. Services include problem-solving support, assistance accessing resources, prejob guidance, employment goal setting, budget counseling, tenant-landlord mediation, emergency food services, and emergency assistance with other basic needs such as utility payment assistance. Also provides assistance with filling out benefit program applications and other forms.

Offers a free directory assistance service called 1-800-FREE411. Consumers dial the 800 number from anywhere in the United States to use the toll-free service, which allows callers to obtain any residential, business, or government telephone number for no charge. Callers must first listen to a brief advertisement.

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. Also includes a text line for individuals who prefer not to call.

Serves all of Vermont with leadership, coordination, and support during the four phases of emergency management: mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Offers training and education conferences, a forum for discussion and information exchange, and access to policy research. Also encourages collaboration and mutual assistance networks, advocates for legislative initiatives and other measures that enhance emergency planning and effectiveness, and provides leadership to ensure that there is an integrated approach to the management of emergency programs and activities.

Provides information about free and/or safe recycling of products that contain mercury, such as fluorescent and compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs, thermostats, and thermometers.

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

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 searchable directory to find contact information for a town's health officer.

Provides intensive wraparound services based on the distinctive needs, strengths, values and preferences of the child and family. Services include clinical case management; comprehensive multidisciplinary assessment; psychiatric consultation and medication management; individual, group and family therapy; substance abuse services; respite, education, community skills training; family reintegration; parent education; 24-hour crisis response; and other individualized services as needed.

Provides counseling and advice on planning, launching, managing, and growing a small business. Services include financial assistance through loan guarantees, minority business development, and counseling and advice to veterans and deployed military. Online courses, webinars, and in-person presentations are also available.

Provides assistance with locating, securing or maintaining housing. Provides information and guidance about rental costs; how to select affordable housing that meets individual needs; and how to budget for insurance, utility costs and other requirements related to paying for housing. assistance with locating, securing or maintaining housing. Develops and manages permanently affordable rental housing.

Issues Vermont's Disabled Plates and Windshield Placards that allow individuals to park in designated spaces in public areas or in front of their homes. Also allows parking for unlimited periods of time in time limit zones as well as parking in metered parking areas without paying fees.

Provides primary medical care for all age groups for lifestyle medicine, reproductive and sexual health including family planning and birth control, nutrition and dietary counseling, preventive care, chronic disease management, behavioral health services, psychiatry referrals,substance use treatment including medication treatment for opioid use disorder (MOUD), alcohol use and stimulant use disorders. They also have a mobile health care unit.

Provides a monthly evening meal.

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

Provides Work Incentives Counselors who can help individuals decide whether to work, keep necessary benefits while they work, and avoid work/benefits conflicts. The program is also available to youth in high school who are in transition to adult life. Youth and their families can receive accurate information about the impact of employment on all Federal and State benefits they receive. Provides the Vermont Work/Benefits Helpline.

Provides supplemental food for families with young children. WIC also provides breastfeeding support and nutrition education. Participants can get Farm to Family coupons to use at local farmers' markets.

Administers the Vermont Restitution Fund which makes payment available to crime victims who suffer financial hardship and have been awarded court-ordered restitution from the offender. The Restitution Unit is able to pay victims their restitution as soon as it has been ordered by the court. The Restitution Unit collects from the offender to reimburse the Fund.

Provides shelter services to persons experiencing homelessness.

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

Offers free, lockable storage boxes to safely store medications and prevent accidental ingestion.

Provides individualized, comprehensive, outpatient treatment services that address both the substance use of the individual and the needs of those affected by the individual's substance use. Groups are gender and trauma specific and are designed to build relapse prevention skills and harm reduction. Provides information about alcohol and drug use, the effects on individuals, families and communities, as well as information to the public about strategies for prevention and early intervention.

Provides comprehensive outpatient substance use disorder treatment services that include substance use disorder counseling, medication-assisted treatment, integrated medical and behavioral services, treatment and counseling for individuals with co-occurring disorders, and psychiatric medication management.

Operates a thrift store offering clothing and small household goods.