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Provides cancer risk assessment and counseling for individuals who may have increased risk of cancer due to family history. Genetic tests may be used to establish whether a predisposition to some types of familial cancer exists. Participation in confidential research studies designed to learn more about familial cancer available to those interested. Education and recommendations for cancer screening and prevention are also provided.

Offers a hotline staffed by volunteers who are all trans-identified and educated in the range of difficulties transgender people experience. While their goal is to prevent self-harm, they welcome the call of any transgender person in need, including people who may be struggling with their gender identity and are not sure whether they are transgender. Operators call emergency services only with the caller's expressed consent.

Provides information and resources for addressing environmental dangers and concerns for air, land, waste, and water areas. Offers portal to report environmental violations and hazards.

Provides contact information for Vermont's County Foresters, state employees who are available to provide information, technical assistance, and outreach to Vermonters about managing and stewarding forest land.

Provides advice and guidance on how to identify and prevent bed bugs; information about diseases spread by ticks, including Lyme; information about mosquito-borne illnesses, including EEE, Zika, and West Nile; and information on the prevention, symptoms, and transmission of Mpox and rabies.

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

Provides a list of deadlines, benefits, resources, and common legal problems that can come up after a flooding disaster. Also includes dates and times for free flood legal assistance clinics.

Provides care to LGBTQ2+ Veterans. Services include mental health care, hormone therapy, HIV prevention, testing, and other STI treatments and screenings. Also provides gender affirming prosthetics, transgender and other LGBTQ2+ support groups and services.

Offers a responsible driving education program that provides participants with increased insight into what it means to drive irresponsibly and greater awareness of how victims, others, the community, and themselves are impacted by their distracted and/or impaired driving behavior.

Provides assistive technology (AT) device demonstrations, trainings, as well as information and assistance regarding AT devices and services, funding resources, and other disability-related topics. People can check out loans online, and have the item mailed to them. The program also offers public awareness via informational displays and equipment demonstrations at outreach events, and technical assistance regarding AT to agencies and programs.

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 the Rent Right Program, designed to provide participants with the skills, materials, and confidence necessary to find and maintain stable housing. Upon completion of the program, participants receive a Preferred Renter Certificate, which shows landlords that they have made an investment into being a good tenant.

Provides a wide range of online health information directories on topics ranging from clinical trials, drugs and dietary supplements, general health information, and environmental health. The clinical trials database allows users to search by type of health condition and by location of trial. The Household Products Database provides information on the potential health effects of chemicals contained in common products. MedlinePlus offers information about various health issues, searchable by body location/system, type of disorder, as well as diagnostic tests and therapies.

Makes available Call Center Specialists who take reports of missing children. The NCMEC case management team next works directly with the family and local law enforcement agency. They offer technical assistance tailored to the case to help ensure all available search and recovery methods are used. As appropriate, NCMEC case management teams create and distribute posters, review leads received on 1-800-THE-LOST, communicate with federal authorities, provide peer support, resources, and empowerment from trained volunteers who have experienced a missing child incident in their own family, and provide families with access to referrals they may use to help process any emotional or counseling needs.

Issues medical marijuana licenses to protect patients from state criminal penalties for using marijuana to relieve the symptoms or effects of a debilitating medical condition. Also maintains a list of medical dispensaries, as well as a way to submit a complaint about adult-use cannabis establishments.

Offers a monthly check in via Zoom for fathers and masculine-identifying caregivers to connect and converse with one another.

Offers consultant services, cash incentives, technical support, and trainings for installing energy efficiency renovations to apartment buildings.

Provides representation to individuals in the custody of the Commissioner of Corrections. Provides representation to juveniles in delinquency proceedings, and to parties in juvenile proceedings including children in need of care and supervision (CHINS) and termination of parental rights cases. Individuals in extradition, probation or parole revocation proceedings are also represented.

Provides general and specialized inpatient and outpatient mental health services and intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment. Specialized services include military sexual trauma assessment and treatment, post traumatic stress disorder assessment and treatment, as well as readjustment counseling services.

Offers innovative and often very intensive assistance to youth transitioning to adulthood with accessing and succeeding in employment, education, housing, positive relationships, community connections, and living independently. The JOBS program focuses on youth who have either left or are seriously at-risk-of leaving school prior to successful graduation and are at high risk for involvement with the criminal justice system, substance use, homelessness, physical abuse, abusive behaviors, or other areas of significant concern.

Provides assistive technology (AT) device demonstrations, trainings, as well as information and assistance regarding AT devices and services, funding resources, and other disability-related topics. People can check out loans online, and have the item mailed to them. The program also offers public awareness via informational displays and equipment demonstrations at outreach events, and technical assistance regarding AT to agencies and programs.

Provides partial wage replacement to eligible unemployed workers. Also offers the Domestic and Sexual Violence Survivors' Transition Program, a special benefit program for individuals who have been forced to leave their employment due to domestic or sexual violence, including stalking. If an individual is disqualified for unemployment benefits, it provides temporary partial wage replacement if they had to leave employment for those reasons.

Offers substance-free transitional housing for veterans experiencing homelessness. Also provides veterans living in the transitional housing shared living facility with support services.

Offers a diversion-like program that connects participants with substance use, mental health, and other community-based service supports, regardless of the participants criminal history, with the aim of improving the person's health and reducing future adverse involvement in the justice system. Successful completion of program results in a dismissal of the criminal charge.

Provides victims of sexual assault with access to a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) and, if they wish, a Victim Advocate. SARCs and Advocates are not counselors or licensed clinicians, but are a confidential resource specialists. SARCs and Advocates will explain military reporting options available to the victim and connect them to appropriate medical, behavioral health, legal, spiritual, and financial resources available through the military.

Provides trained interpreters who work with most social service providers, including healthcare facilities and the Vermont judicial system.