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Community Partners
Up one levelCommunity Partners are non-state agencies in your community that the Agency of Human Services partners with to provide supports for clients as well as providers. This is only a few of our many partners.
- Mental Health Agencies
- Mental Health Services helps children and adults who have a severe and persistent mental illness, and/or a severe emotional disturbance.
- Community Action Agencies
- Nonprofit private and public organizations were established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight America's War on Poverty. They help people to help themselves in achieving self-sufficiency.
- Area Agencies on Aging
- These agencies coordinate and support a wide range of home- and community-based services, including information and referral, home-delivered and congregate meals, transportation, employment services, senior centers, adult day care and a long-term care ombudsman program. They also provide assistance for adults in need of protection or supportive services.
- Home Health Agencies
- Provides a wide range of high-quality care for people of all ages, with acute and long term illnesses. In addition to skilled nursing services, speciality nurses coordinate high-quality individualized care. Licensed Nursing Assistants assist with personal care and activities of daily living.
- Parent Child Centers
- Vermont has 15 Parent Child Centers that provide home visiting as part of a variety of supports and services for families. Each center can also connect family members to more information and help.
- Regional Community Partnerships
- Regional Partnerships are collaborative groups in each of the twelve geographical regions of the state that were created in Vermont statute to improve the well-being of children, families and individuals and to make their communities healthier places to live. Staffed by part-time regional coordinators and formalized as a statewide association (Vermont Association of Regional Partnerships), membership includes individuals and families served by human services and education programs; other community citizens; non-profit and state providers of health, education and human services; economic development representatives, and business leaders. Their role is to develop and implement local strategies for improving the social well-being of Vermonters, to engage diverse community members as partners, and to mobilize community resources to enhance local support services and systems to improve outcomes.
