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Manages water and air quality, regulates solid and hazardous wastes, and administers a number of voluntary pollution and waste reduction programs. Program also provides environmental permit information and assistance, business and municipal compliance assistance, a number to call to report hazardous materials spills, and an Environmental Enforcement Division, which takes complaints regarding potential violations of Vermont's environmental laws. Also offers sampling of drinking water, well tests, and other resources during water-related emergencies.

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Provides shelter, medical treatment, and other basic care for surrendered and stray animals, including dogs, cats, and small pets. Facilitates pet adoptions, with adoption counseling to best match shelter animals with appropriate households. Also offers disaster preparedness services including education and emergency boarding. Provides a wide range of volunteer opportunities.

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Provides contact information directories for Vermont Agency of Education, Supervisory Unions/Districts, Vermont Public and Private Schools, and Vermont Higher Education, including addresses and phone numbers. Also provides a directory of Vermont Public Schools' Homeless Liaisons.

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Personal care items may be available depending on donations. Also offers food vouchers in the form of Farm to Family coupons that can be used to purchase produce at participating farmers markets and farm stands. A food shelf is located next door.

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Responds to reports of suspected child abuse and neglect, and helps parents get the services and supports they need. Vermont Department for Children and Families Family Services Division (DCF/FSD) is also responsible for placing children in temporary out-of-home care when necessary to keep them safe, working with parents and relatives toward children's safe return home, and finding permanent homes for children who can't return home safely. The program provides a hotline number for reporting suspected cases of child abuse, neglect, or risk of harm. Social workers who answer the line take reports, conduct investigations, assess families, and make recommendations for services to alleviate family stress and improve parenting skills.

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Provides shelter; medical treatment; and other basic care for stray and surrendered animals, including dogs, cats, and other small pets. Facilitates adoption of shelter animals, matching pets with the most appropriate households. Helps reduce feline overpopulation through a trap/neuter/return program for free-roaming (feral) cats. Provides a Foster Care Program that includes food and supplies for foster care volunteers caring for pregnant cats and dogs, animals recovering from minor surgery, and animals in extreme stress in the shelter environment. Provides a wide array of donation and volunteer opportunities.

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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 may include movement and exercise, nutrition, chronic disease self-management, and health/disease specific support group meetings.

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Provides a community-wide, coordinated effort to identify, assess and find appropriate options for homeless individuals and families seeking housing or related services, and/or for those at imminent risk of becoming homeless.

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Supports the successful re-entry into the community of people released from incarceration through Circles of Support and Accountability (COSAs). COSAs are made up of citizen volunteers who work with participants to help them learn to manage the challenges of everyday life, be accountable for their actions and become responsible community members. Volunteer coordinators may help establish links to employment, housing, transportation, and benefit programs.

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Provides fast track medical services to individuals who have minor medical problems that do not require complex diagnostic work, including colds, flu, infections, muscle strains and sprains, cuts, insect stings and bites, rashes and stomachaches. Services include common immunizations, sports and school physicals, lab testing and x-rays.

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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, adult and children's services.

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Provides information, advice and advocacy to patients voluntarily admitted to inpatient psychiatric facilities or who are held on an involuntary 72-hour hold as part of an Emergency Examination. Offers outreach to individuals with mental health issues at designated hospitals and emergency departments. Investigates cases of serious abuse, neglect, and violation of rights against persons with mental illness who may not otherwise have access to Disability Rights Vermont services.

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Receives and sells items no longer needed by state government, including office furniture, computers and related equipment, vehicles, and a variety of other items. Sells vehicles by auction.

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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.

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Provides up to $5,000 for 25% of the cost of a used fuel-efficient car. Requires participants to take the MileageSmart Skills Workshop. Program lists lenders who offer low-interest vehicle loans for fuel-efficient cars. Eligible cars are rated at 40 MPG or higher.

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Provides a voluntary program for youth who have received a civil violation for underage drinking, possession of alcohol, or a civil violation for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana. The program consists of a substance misuse assessment, screening, education program, and community service.

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Fields questions about the status of current legislation.

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Provides transportation to medical appointments and pharmacy visits. Transportation for other purposes includes but not limited to: food shopping, errands, social events, and access to Neighborhood Connections and community programming.

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Provides comprehensive preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services for women from puberty through the post-menopausal years. Services include well-woman exams, contraception, pregnancy and delivery services including midwifery services, pregnancy and childbirth education, as well as breastfeeding and post-partum support services. Services may also include menopausal and post-menopausal management services and urogynecology services.

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Provides a voluntary mental health crisis alternative to hospitalization. Interlude is a home-like, trauma-sensitive space with staff who are individuals informed by lived experience.

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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).

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Provides a smartphone app (Transit) with real time route information and trip planning. The real time route information shows potentially available on-demand transportation options. Buses and/or volunteer drivers may be able to pick up users if driver's current location allows.

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Provides temporary shelter for pets during times of crisis and transition, maintaining pet owner's confidentiality, in partnership with homeless, domestic violence, and other local human services organizations. Services include sheltering, feeding, vaccines, and spay/neuter surgery.

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

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Provides ongoing, up-to-date information about national and international public health occurrences such as extreme weather events, contagious disease outbreaks, and natural disaster information.

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