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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 a drop-in community center that offers opportunities to socialize and to access support for help with acquiring supported employment, access to education and housing, peer support, and opportunities to explore holistic health and wellness. Also provides packed meals to go. During the winter months, the center offers extended hours to provide a warm space for individuals to congregate until the overnight shelter opens its doors.

Offers a home-based and neighborhood-centered youth development program designed to support family life, develop physical and mental skills, and encourage cooperation. Boys and girls become members of a den, which is usually led by a parent. Dens meet on a regular basis and earn awards through their achievements and activities, including sports, games, outdoor adventure, and life skills.

Governs labor relations primarily between public sector employers and employees, including Vermont State Colleges, University of Vermont, school districts, and small private operations. The Board determines appropriate bargaining units, conducts union representation elections, adjudicates unfair labor practice charges, and arbitrates grievances.

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 online and is also published in flyer form. Topics can include movement and exercise, nutrition, chronic disease self-management, and health/disease specific support group meetings.

Accepts donations of gently used adult clothing, up to 3X, as well as maternity, baby, and children's clothing. May also accept donations of toys and books.

Assists families with financial support for respite care.

Provides rides to all towns in the covered area, including rural towns not on the standard bus routes. Purpose of rides can include social, recreational, employment, medical, shopping, and other needs. Offers quick response if car is available.

Assists individuals seeking to improve their money management skills in monthly bill paying, debt reduction, savings and credit reports and credit repair. The process generally involves analysis of the individual's income, expenses, debts, taxes and other factors to create a personal financial assessment and development of a budget for basic living expenses. Also offers workshops that address a wide variety of money management issues including banking services, consumer credit lending, and debt consolidation/repayment.

Provides screening, diagnostics, and treatment planning services for people who are experiencing acute or chronic psychiatric problems. Offers individual, group, conjoint (couples), and family counseling, therapy groups, medication and other mental health services for community residents, including those who have may be experiencing difficulty resolving personal or interpersonal conflicts or making personal adjustments to stressful life situations.

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.

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

Provides one-stop centers that offer an array of employment and training services. Helps job seekers assess skills and interests, explore training options, create a job search plan, write a resume, and find a job. Job seekers can access computers, educational resources, and information on employers. Training and pre-job assistance services include ICAN, which pairs qualified individuals with an employment coordinator to assist them with resources, support services, job readiness skills, case management, and job placement.

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

Provides an offender re-entry program that is designed to address and repair the harm done to the community and the offender's victims while reducing the barriers to successful re-entry of offenders back into the community as citizens.

Provides a confidential crisis hotline and online services to call, chat, or email. Offers solution-focused crisis intervention, referrals to local resources, education, and prevention assistance for youth and families. Services include youth-initiated Conference Calls, which facilitates a call between the youth and their family or a helping agency; Home Free, which offers a free bus ticket home or to an alternate living arrangement; and Message Service, which takes messages from parents that the National Runaway Safeline (NRS) will deliver to the youth if they choose to call the hotline to check for messages.

Provides transitional housing to men and women leaving incarceration and transitioning to the community. Dismas is a supportive community and substance-free environment where former prisoners and students live together with volunteer involvement from the greater community.

Provides job skills training to individuals with little or no work experience. Training includes introduction to work settings, job skills, and practicing professional skills and receiving feedback.

Provides housing search assistance, life skills assessment, training, budgeting, nutrition education, and tenancy skills class which may include some financial assistance. Once placed in permanent housing, individuals with receive ongoing support to help them maintain housing.

Provides an interactive training designed to help overcome fears and other barriers to taking action about child sexual abuse. The training helps adults recognize and respond to boundary violations and pre-offending behaviors before they result in child sexual abuse.

Works with households to resolve emergencies involving home heat and electrical disconnection notices using programs and funds available and helps with applications. Electric heat assistance is limited to households with primary heat source of electricity or electricity that is essential to keeping other types of heating systems operational. The Wood Warms Program provides two free cords of wood to eligible households that heat entirely with wood or that supplement their primary heat source by burning wood.

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.

Provides preventive health care, as well as diagnosis and treatment of illness in children, adolescents and adults. Services include primary medical care such as physical health examinations, acute and chronic health screenings, obstetric care, laboratory testing, and birth control counseling. Provides onsite coordinated primary care, mental health services, and substance abuse services to enhance access to appropriate prevention, treatment, recovery and wellness services and activities. Programs for health maintenance and public education services are also offered. Coordination of transportation to medical appointments and wellness programs is available for patients.

Provides up to $75 (paid directly to vendor) for job and education related needs, including car repair, registration, insurance, work-related tools; uniforms, fees, and assistance with tuition and textbooks for persons in college or training that is likely to increase the chances of the person obtaining employment.

Educates the public about alternative, renewable energy sources, promotes investment in clean, safe renewable energy, and works to reduce toxic threats to the environment and human health throughout the state. VPIRG is also the lead advocacy agency for accuracy in labeling, requiring clear and specific disclosure of all ingredients, including genetically modified organisms (GMOs), that go into the production of food being sold in Vermont.