HireAbility
Individualized employment services. They help community members:
- maintain their jobs
- explore and develop career pathways
- build new skills through education and training
- find-maintain employment that works long term.
Call their main phone number 802-888-5976 or local representative DJ Masi at 802-793-8309. You can also visit their website.
Green Mountain Support Services
Green Mountain Support Services (GMSS) provides person-centered based services to those with a disability. GMSS has five programs: developmental services , brain injury, adult family care, choices for care, supportive employment services. “Empowering Neighbors with disabilities to be at home in their community.”
- Morrisville: 802-888-7602, 93 James Road
- St. Johnsbury: 802-424-1636, 1222 Main Street, Suite 102
Shared Living Provider (SLP) program: unites trained, compensated caregivers who want to share their homes with individuals who need assistance with daily living. Shared Living Providers create opportunities for individuals with disabilities to live with a single person, couple, or family in the community. To learn more about this program, click here.
Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL)
VCIL works to promote the dignity, independence, and civil rights of Vermonters with disabilities. Programs include:
- Community Access Program: improves access to buildings, services, and programs.
- Home Access Program (HAP): home entry and bathroom accessibility modifications.
- Information, Referral & Assistance specialist
- Meals on Wheels delivered meals.
- Peer Advocacy Program: engages people with disabilities in community efforts to promote changes in programs, policies, and laws.
- Sue Williams Freedom Fund (SWFF): funding for services and equipment to help people with disabilities achieve or maintain independence.
- Vermont Equipment Distribution Program (VTEDP): funding for adaptive equipment.
- Youth Transition
Visit their website or call 800-639-1522.
Lamoille peer counselor: Thomas Younkman, 802-888-2180, tyounkman@vcil.org
Lamoille Restorative Center
Jump On Board for Success (JOBS)
Employment help for youth 16 through 22 who have behavioral or emotional disabilities, with support for:
- Resume and interviewing
- Eolunteer work & internships
- Transportation and scheduling
- Good communication with employers
- Stable housing and driver’s licenses
Contact Mark Scott: (802) 888-0656 or mscott@lrcvt.org.
In partnership with ReSOURCE Vermont and Lamoille County Mental Health Services.
Lamoille Day Health Services aka 'Out&About'
Lamoille Day Health Services offers adult day care services to seniors and adults living with disabilities within the community. These services offer an opportunity for recreation, and increased independence.
This program provides:
- Adult daycare services
Lamoille Day Health Services accepts Medicare.
Visit their website or call 802-888-7045
Legal Aid
Vermont Legal Aid's disability’s resources.
- Developmental Disability Services
- Disability-based discrimination in employment
- Guardianship
- Special Education
- Assistive Technology
- The Client Assistance Program, which can help if you have problems applying for or getting vocational or independent living services.
- long-term care, Social Security Disability Benefits (SSDI) and other public benefits.
3SquaresVT in a SNAP!
An easier way for older & disabled Vermonters to access 3SquaresVT – a program that helps you put healthy foods on the table.
For more information and to apply click here. Call Agency of Human Services Benefits Service Center at 1-800-479-6151
Children with Special Health Needs Program
Vermont Agency of Human Services (AHS) - Vermont Department of Health
CSHN supports Vermont children and youth ages birth to-21 with special health needs by ensuring comprehensive, culturally sensitive, community-based and family-centered services.
This program provides:
- Team of medical social workers, nurses, and other specialty providers to help navigate the system.
- Care Coordination
- Children’s Personal Care Services
- Pediatric Hi-Tech Nursing
- Pediatric Palliative Care
- Child Development Clinic
- Community Nutrition Services
Increasing Access
Inclusive Arts Vermont resource page
Holding accessible remote meetings and events
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