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Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items are often available as well.

Provides financial assistance of up to $10,000 to eligible crime victims who have experienced a financial loss as the direct result of a crime, as long as the loss is not reimbursable through other sources, such as insurance. When appropriate, money is available to pay for the following expenses: medical and dental care, counseling for victims and family members, funeral expenses, lost wages due to time missed from work, other expenses such as prescriptions, eyeglasses, and limited transportation costs. If death occurs as a result of the crime, legal dependents may receive temporary living expenses.

Provides emergency home repair for households in crisis by addressing immediate health and safety risks, basic needs, correcting code violations, and assisting in energy inefficiency.

Offers secondary school students the opportunity to earn up to 6 college credits while still enrolled in high school. Classes may be online or in-person.

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

Pursues the preservation and protection of endangered land resources from indiscriminate development. Partners with local and statewide conservation organizations to conserve Vermont lands for the future. Conservation efforts include acquisition of development rights transferred through conservation easements for Vermont farms, working forest projects, and community projects. Also offers an online directory of conserved land open to the public for recreational trails.

Sells new and gently used furniture, building supplies, kitchen cabinets appliances, tools, housewares, linens, clothing and home improvement products. Accepts donations of used vehicles for scrap. Proceeds fund home building in Chittenden County by Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity.

Provides a crisis intervention and assessment program that includes telephone or face-to-face consultation and assessment for admission to local and/or statewide residential crisis programs. Also provides crisis intervention referral services and follow-up. When deemed warranted by the emergency intervention specialist, individuals may be placed in a Public Inebriate Program bed, a safe alternative for individuals who require ongoing supervision during withdrawal from drug and/or alcohol intoxification.

Provides seasonal, outdoor food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations.

Provides a program that empowers Vermonters to lead healthier lives through hands-on nutrition education. The Expanded Food & Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is usually a six-session series held in home, school, or community settings. An online nutrition education series, Eat Smart, Move More, is also offered and participants can access lessons at their own pace while receiving one-on-one support from their closest EFNEP Educator via phone calls, zoom meetings, and emails. Topics covered may include meal planning and preparation, food budgeting with a limited income, food safety and preservation, and nutrition tips.

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 home entry and bathroom accessibility modifications. Offers financial assistance for nonprofit housing providers for accessibility modifications in their affordable rental housing.

Provides a broad selection of recreational opportunities and leisure time activities.

Provides assistance with advance care planning for individuals who want to express their wishes regarding future medical treatment should they become incapacitated and/or to name the individual they would like to make health care decisions on their behalf.

Pays for laundry machine use and provides soap if needed.

Provides a variety of core services in the communities it serves, including emergency support and assistance for low-income families and individuals in crisis. Other services include problem-solving support, 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 the Extension Master Gardener Course, which covers the fundamentals of home gardening and plant and soil sciences, and is adapted to local needs and the Vermont environment. Program also provides a year-round toll free Extension Master Gardener Helpline, an office location for submitting plant and pest specimens for analysis, and an e-mail address to which the home gardener's horticulture questions can be addressed. The website provides information about the program; the garden help services it provides; instructions for sending plant, insect, and soil samples; and downloadable Extension Master Gardener Course registration forms.

Provides a list recreational facilities and a broad selection of recreational opportunities and leisure time activities.

Provides information about foster care and coordinates support and resources for foster parents of children in State of Vermont custody.

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

Provides a full range of supportive services for individuals with a limited life expectancy, and their families. Also provides comprehensive Palliative and support care to individuals in need of pain and other symptom management whether or not they have a life limiting illness.

Provides oversight and management of the statewide emergency telecommunication system accessible to everyone. Emergency 911 calls are routed to one of six Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs). The PSAPs are staffed by trained personnel who assess requests for emergency assistance and notify the appropriate emergency response agency - law enforcement, fire, or EMS.

Provides a peer-hosted, mental health crisis respite housing program as an alternative to psychiatric hospitalization. Offers non-clinical treatment and programs in a safe, mutually supportive and empowering environment, with primary emphasis on self-directed healing. Program is voluntary.

Provides assistance with locating, securing and/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.

Provides eligibility screening for financial assistance programs. Offers personal assistance to qualifying individuals in obtaining ongoing health care with a doctor at reduced cost or for free. Offers assistance with obtaining affordable medications and eye glasses and accessing community resources and state programs. Also offers assistance with managing health concerns through case management, coordination of care, and communication with health care providers.