Vermont Children's Aid Society
Vermont Fire Technical Support Team - Randolph
The Vermont Foodbank
Visiting Nurse Association
Welfare Restructuring Project of Vermont
Women Helping Battered Women (A United Way Agency)
YWCA of Vermont
Vermont Children's Aid Society
79 Weaver Street
PO Box 127
Winooski, VT 05405-0127
(802)655-0006
The VCAS provides Lifetime Adoption Services, Child and Family Counseling, and Pregnancy Counseling with the basic goals of children and families in mind, i.e. prevention, preparation, preservation, and permanence, meanwhile stressing the importance of individual needs.
Vermont Fire Technical Support Team - Randolph
P.O. Box 411
Rt.66 Professional Center
Randolph, VT 05060
1-800-299-6408
(802) 728-9526
fax (802) 728-5951
Public and private interests have joined together forming the Vermont Rural Fire Protection Task Force. The Task Force supports volunteer fire departments in their efforts to provide the maximum level of security against fire loss. One of their goals is to facilitate financial and technical assistance to meet fire protection needs. The Vermont Fire Technical Support Team hopes to assist local fire departments in reducing the risk of injury, loss of life and property, and to improve the safety and welfare of the community.
The Vermont Foodbank is an independent non-profit organization that distributes supplies to emergency food shelves, community kitchen, shelters for the homeless and battered women, senior meal sites and other similar programs. The Vermont Foodbank provided help to over 100,000 hungry people by distributing 1.1 million lbs of food in 1994. It has moved its headquarters from Granger Road, Berlin to the old Calmont Beverage building (20,000 sq ft) on Rt 14 in South Barre, Barre Town. Edward Day, executive director, said the purchase and renovation of the building (a $750,000 project) was made possible by a $400,000 grant from DCA to Barre Town augmented by foundation and corporation and individual contributions. There has been powerful support from the board of selectman and municipal staff of Barre Town. Vermont Mutual Insurance Co. bought the foodbank's old building in Berlin letting the organization stay rent free for 3 months. (TA, 4/25/95:9).
Visiting Nurse Association
25 Prim Rd.
Colchester, VT 05446
(802) 658-1900
The VNA serving Chittenden and Grand Isle counties has widened the scope of their traditional home visits by professional nurses to include a large variety of services with a team-delivered approach to care. In addition to their traditional Home Care program, the VNA now provides a hospice program for people with terminal illnesses and their families to cope with death by living life to the fullest. Through a Maternal Child Health Service, three VNA home and center-based programs provide care for women with childbirth-related medical problems and for sick children as well as provide early child education and support services. There are childbirth education classes for expecting parents, called Expectations. The VNA runs an Adult Day Program which provides therapeutic, social, and recreational activities, respite, education, and in-home consultation for physically handicapped and frail adults, and those with cognitive disorders and their families. Through the Foster Grandparent Program, volunteers 60 years and older with limited incomes are placed with special needs children who are in need of love and guidance. The elders receive additional income, preventative physical exams, and a sense of usefulness and purpose. The VNA offers Community Services which include the Care Connection, a Medicaid Waiver Program, the Homemaker Program, and the Medicaid High Tech Program. The Care Connection offers skilled nurses and home care providers in private homes, residential care facilities, and at hospitals. The Medicaid Waiver Program promotes independent living to people eligible for Medicaid and requiring nursing care. For individuals with incomes less than $12,000, the Homemaker Program can provide assistance in performing some regular household duties. Finally, the Medicaid High Tech Program offers care managers to children and adults who are technology-dependent to help them live in their homes and communities. (See also Vermont Home Health and Visiting Nurse Association in Brief Directory)
Welfare Restructuring Project of Vermont
There are four main goals in the Project including 1)strengthening incentives to work by lengthening the time of benefits after having obtained a job and loosening the restrictions that cut ANFC recipients out of the program, 2)make dependence on ANFC benefits transitional by encouraging, assisting, and finally requiring ANFC parents to support themselves and their children financially through work, 3)promote good parenting and positive role-modeling and 4)form a partnership between ANFC parents and the State. Applicants and recipient families of ANFC are randomly assigned one of the following three groups, and receive benefits and services accordingly: 60% (group 3) are subject to all provisions of WRP, including the time limits and requirement to accept subsidized employment. 20% (group 2) are subject to all provisions of WRP except the time limits and requirement to accept subsidized employment, and 20% (group 1) are subject to regular ANFC policies.
Women Helping Battered Women (A United Way Agency)
P.O. Box 1535
Burlington, VT 05402
(802) 658-3131
hotline: (802) 658-1996
Women Helping Battered Women help women and children live without fear of physical, sexual, emotional, or financial abuse. A hotline provides 24 hour crisis service for referrals, support, and immediate intervention. The Children's Services and Shelter programs work together to support and advocate for the women and children in the shelter. Confidential meetings provide support groups where women can share experiences, information, and mutual support. The Community Education program offers presentations about domestic abuse, teen dating violence, the effects of abuse on children and services for victims of abuse.
YWCA of Vermont
278 Main Street
Burlington, Vermont 05401
862-7520
The Vermont YWCA is a non-profit, volunteer, individual membership organization committed to the development of women and girls. They focus on the education, housing, recreational and occupational needs and physical and mental well-being of Vermont women. They offer long-term affordable housing for low-income women at a newly renovated site on Main Street. They run a program offering financial management seminars to women, and a summer camp "Hochelaga" in South Hero for girls aged 6-16 with all sorts of indoor and outdoor activities and tuition assistance available.
Comments to: crs@uvm.edu Reviewed on 4/16/97