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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.

Provides confidential support and information. 24-hour hotline. Survivor-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 a wide range of health and wellness, recreational, youth development and family development programs including classes, and recreational activities. Also provides age-appropriate fitness programs for seniors, child care services, leadership development opportunities, summer camps, and parent-child programs.

Provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient care and 24-hour emergency care. Services include 24-hour physician staffed emergency room services, diagnostic imaging, general medical and surgical services, lab testing, blood supply services, hospital-based outpatient services, disease specific treatment, pain management, and adult and children's services

Provides community food shelf services. Personal care items may be available depending on donations. Other arrangements can be made for homeless persons. Delivery is available under certain conditions.

Provides small, limited community food services including grocery bags and silverware (as available). All food determined to be edible is accepted as donations including packaged food in unopened packaging, prepared food, and fresh produce.

Provides custom-made hairpieces for each applicant. Application and donation forms are available on the website.

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).

Administers a network of state service programs that engage volunteers, both full and part-time, to serve in nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and faith-based organizations where they provide intensive services to meet needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. Members' services may include opportunities to tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, and help communities respond to disaster. AmeriCorps' programs include AmeriCorps VISTA, the AmeriCorps NCCC Program (National Civilian Community Corps), FEMACorps, and Senior Corps. Senior Corps volunteer opportunities include RSVP (Retired Seniors Volunteer Program) that matches skills and experiences with needs of the community, the Foster Grandparents Program, a tutoring and mentoring program, and the Senior Companion Program, assisting and caring for the elderly. Full-time AmeriCorps members also receive a modest living allowance, health care benefits, and child care.

Offers reparative panels as a form of community-sponsored probation that brings convicted offenders before a volunteer panel of citizens as part of their sentencing process. Panels work with victims and offenders to identify the harm caused by the crime and how that harm can be repaired while holding the offender responsible and accountable.

Offers a substance free environment for peer support, educational programs, information and referral to needed services, recovery coaching, socializing, recreational activities, and meeting space for a variety of recovery workshops and meetings. They offer Narcan.

Provides money management counseling services that include credit counseling, debt counseling, personalized budgeting, school loan repayment counseling, bankruptcy counseling, and financial literacy training.

Offers a series of health-related workshops and presentations for the community, many of which are offered by health professionals. Information about local wellness programs is provided on line and is also published in flyer form. Topics include movement and exercise, nutrition, childbirth education, car seat safety, chronic disease self-management, and health/disease specific support group meetings.

Provides a webpage with a map of Vermont divided into towns. Each town is color-coded to indicate which Solid Waste Management District (SWMD) covers that town. The key to the map provides the phone numbers for all the SWMDs. The website itself (as well as individual SWD websites) contains important information about hazardous waste disposal, including how to properly dispose of such items as computers, tires, and batteries. The website also provides detailed information about Act 148, Vermont's Universal Recycling Law, which covers how to comply with the law's requirements on how to dispose of plastic, paper, yard debris, clean wood, food scraps, and other organic materials.

Partners with senior meal sites, senior centers, and restaurants to provide hot, nutritious, noontime meals. Home-delivered meals are often available for those who are unable to reach a meal site because of illness or frailty.

Provides links to resources on money management. Topics include budgeting, credit, credit scores, identity theft, and online data protection. Also offers a savings calculator.

Provides safety information regarding smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms, and fireworks.

Provides in-home pediatric care under physician orders for intermittent skilled care and specific procedures. Provides physical therapists at request of physicians to do growth and development assessments, to establish exercise routines, to monitor progress, and to assist families with obtaining adaptive equipment. Also offers support and information to parents and family members who have previously experienced the loss of an infant.

Coordinates/Provides transportation to medical appointments, as well as dental, vision, counseling, prescription pick-up, and other covered transportation services for eligible Medicaid recipients. Offers volunteer driving opportunities.

Provides training designed to prevent child sexual abuse. Training's can be delivered as webinars, community workshops, and comprehensive multi-day organizational trainings including trainer certifications.

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

Provides the use of a Montpelier post office box address. The substitute address has no relation to the participant's actual address. First-class mail and service of process are then forwarded, at no cost, to the participant's actual location. Participants can vote, get a driver's license, get married, register births, etc. without fear of being located by their perpetrator.

Provides a crisis intervention program that offers face-to-face recovery coaching to individuals admitted to Central Vermont Medical Center and Gifford Emergency Department.

Provides volunteer opportunities for individuals to serve one-on-one with frail elderly and other homebound persons who have difficulty completing everyday tasks. They might assist with grocery shopping, bill paying, and transportation to medical appointments, and alert doctors and family members to potential problems. Senior Companions also provide short periods of relief to primary caregivers.

Coordinates/Provides transportation to medical appointments, as well as dental, vision, counseling, prescription pick-up, and other covered transportation services for eligible Medicaid recipients. Offers volunteer driving opportunities.