Service Listings

Medicaid

Medicaid provides low-cost or free coverage for low-income children, young adults under age 21, parents, pregnant women, caretaker relatives, people who are blind or disabled, and those age 65 or older.

Mental Health Elder Care Clinican Program (ECCP)

The Vermont Elder Care Clinician Program is a service provided to help older adults who experience mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Any older adult aged 60 and over experiencing a mental health concern that interferes with their daily life may be served. This program is a joint initiative of Mental Health Services and the Division of Disability and Aging Services (Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living).

My Child Support Case

Parents can go online to get information on their open child support case.

Neighbor to Neighbor

The Neighbor to Neighbor Project places Americorps volunteers in each of the Agencies on Aging in Vermont to perform community service for older Vermonters. The services the volunteers provide vary, based on what the senior requesting assistance identifies as their need. As examples, volunteers have helped to rebuilding front steps to improve home access for a senior and have helped with chores/personal care assistance and transportation.

Offender Services

The focus of Offender Services is to keep the community and past victims safe while providing treatment and supervision to offenders with developmental disabilities who are not served by the Correctional system.

Older Vermonters and Family Caregiver Services (Older Americans Act)

The Older Americans Act (OAA) provides funding for a range of programs that offer services and opportunities for older Vermonters to remain as independent as possible and to be active and contributing members of their community. The OAA also provides a range of services to family caregivers to support them to continue in this essential role. The Older Americans Act focuses on improving the lives of older adults and family caregivers in areas of income, housing, nutrition, health, employment, retirement, and social and community services.

Partners in Service (PINS)

Learn how congregations of faith can help children in foster care.

Prescription Assistance

Vermont has several Prescription Assistance programs to help uninsured Vermonters and those enrolled in Medicare pay for prescription medicines based on income, disability status and age. These programs include VPharm, VHAP-Pharmacy, VScript, and Healthy Vermonters.

Project Crash

Vermont's Drinking Driver Rehabilitation Program

Project Family

In 2000, the Department for Children and Families joined forces with Lund Family Center (the state's largest and oldest non-profit adoption agency) to create Project Family. We are dedicated to finding parents for children in foster care, and helping the parents and children to access the support and services they need.

Reach Up

Reach Up helps families with children by providing cash assistance for basic needs and services that support work and self-sufficiency.

Refugee Health Program

The Refugee Health Program helps with the transition of newly arriving refugees and promotes their physical and mental well being by connecting them to medical providers. Call 1-800-464-4343 or (802) 863-7333

Reporting Child Abuse

Certain people are required by Vermont law to report suspected cases of child abuse and neglect. These mandated reporters are legally required to report their suspicions to their local Family Services District Office—within 24 hours. In addition, any other person who has reason to believe that a child may have been abused or neglected may make a report to the Family Services Division of DCF.

Rural Farm and Family

Members of rural and farm families with disabilities are eligible for evaluation, counseling and job placement through this program. Our counselors are experienced with all kinds of agriculture, including dairy farming, logging, landscaping, market gardening, agribusiness, aquaculture, and other types of work, including self-employment.

Savings Assistance

A savings program, called an Individual Development Account (IDA), that helps lower-income Vermonters to save money for a home, education, or a small business.

School to Career Program

VocRehab Vermont’s School to Career Program helps youth with disabilities plan and prepare for life after high school. Working with both students and school personnel, VocRehab counselors assist with transition planning for students with disabilities.

Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)

The Senior Community Services Employment Program is a job-training organization that offers training within partnered community service agencies. The combination of skills training and community service leads to employment for low-income individuals age 55 and older.

Smoking Quit Line

The Smoking Quit Line is operated 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by the American Cancer Society's National Cancer Information Center. Vermonters can get personal help in the form of cessation support, factual information, quitting strategies, a series of phone counseling sessions, and referrals to local services that help smokers quit. Call 1-877-YES-QUIT (1-877-937-7848)

Substance Abuse Intervention and Treatment

Resources, treatment guidelines and providers of substance abuse services in Vermont

Substance Abuse Prevention

12 regional prevention consultants to help communities and coalitions to prevent alcohol and drug abuse in Vermont