Community Resources
Vermont Government
Employment and Career Resources
- ELMI Business Finder: locate businesses and contact information.
- Learning Express Library: career preparation, college test prep, high school equivalency center, student
- O*Net: an occupational data and job search tool.
- Vermont Small Business Development Center: free expert assistance for small business owners and entrepreneurs.
- Vermont Workforce Development: resources for jobseekers in Vermont.
Health & Wellness
- AA – Area 70 Vermont: Alcoholics Anonymous Area 70 covers the entire state of Vermont.
- Age Well: Committed to helping individuals age well, Age Well reduces barriers by providing access to healthy meals, in-home care, and community resources.
- Counseling Service of Addison County: a local community mental health center located in Middlebury, VT.
- National Alliance on Mental Illness Vermont: NAMI Vermont supports, educates, and advocates so that all communities, families, and individuals affected by mental health challenges can build better lives.
- Open Door Clinic: a free health clinic located in Middlebury, VT, for uninsured and under-insured adults in Addison County, Vermont.
- Resources for Resiliency – Addison County Area Community Resource Guide: a comprehensive resource guide that includes information about a range of supports available in the Addison County area, including mental health, substance misuse treatment, food resources, housing, transportation, and more.
- The Women’s Center: a free clinic located in Middlebury, VT, for unplanned pregnancy services.
- Turning Point Center of Addison County: a recovery center that provides a safe, friendly, and substance-use-free environment where all people in recovery, and their families and friends, can meet for peer-to-peer recovery support, social activities, recovery coaching, education, and advocacy.
- Vermont Alcohol and Drug Information Clearinghouse: free publications and resources.
- VTHelplink: a statewide, public resource for finding substance use treatment and recovery services in Vermont.
- The Vermont Association of Area Agencies on Aging and GetSetUp provide hundreds of live online classes to keep older adults mentally, physically, and socially active.
Coronavirus
- Addison County: Coronavirus Resources
- Center for Disease Control (CDC): COVID-19 page
- Vermont Department of Health: COVID-19 page
Legal Assistance
- Access and Resource Center: an office of the Vermont courts offering free services for people who don’t have an attorney, including help with VT state court forms, public computers for court-related use, help finding an attorney, workstation to attend remote hearings, and information about VT state court processes.
- Community Legal Information Center (CLIC): Vermont’s free legal reference and information service for the general public. Access to legal research databases, legal self-help books, and reference services.
- Vermont Law Help: free civil legal help to low-income people who live in Vermont.
Technology Assistance
- DigitalLearn.org: a collection of self-directed tutorials for end-users to increase their digital literacy. Feedback from public library staff directed Public Library Association to develop courses on the most basic skills, such as using a computer, navigating a website, and searching. Modules are video-based with narration, 6 to 22 minutes long, and help learners practice skills like using a mouse and setting up passwords. Nearly all modules are available in Spanish as well as English.
- The Vermont Association of Area Agencies on Aging and GetSetUp provide hundreds of live online classes to keep older adults mentally, physically, and socially active.
Resources for Vermont Farmers
- The Legal Food Hub: connects eligible farmers, food entrepreneurs, and food and farm organizations throughout New England to free legal assistance. Expert attorneys in the network work with participants on transactional legal matters, such as contracts, real estate transactions, and entity formations. The Hub also provides free education on a wide range of legal topics relevant to food professionals and attorneys alike.
- Farmers Market Legal Toolkit: includes legal resources, best practice recommendations, and case studies on selecting and enhancing business structure and managing common risks.
- Precarious Protection: Pesticide Regulations for Farmworker Safety: This report outlines findings relating to necessary improvements of the status quo, and includes recommendations regarding training for employees, access to information, personal protective equipment, emergency assistance, etc.
- The Healthy Food Policy Project: identifies local laws that seek to promote access to healthy food. The Project includes information about growing, processing, and distributing local, healthy food.
- VLGS Cornell Library’s Food and Agriculture Law and Policy Research Guide for the Public: provides comprehensive legal resources including books, databases, and Vermont statutes and regulations related to farming.
Vermont Migrant Worker Resources
- Addison County Farmworkers Coalition: The Coalition’s goal is to promote the well-being of farms and farmworkers (especially undocumented workers).
- Migrant Justice: Their mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights.
- Open Door Clinic (Middlebury, VT): a free health clinic for uninsured and under-insured adults in Addison County, Vermont.
- Vermont Migrant Education Program: provides free educational support services to eligible children of families that relocate in order to obtain seasonal or temporary employment in agriculture and to eligible out-of-school youth that has moved to obtain seasonal or temporary agricultural employment.
Local Organization Calendars
Other Resources
- Addison County Solid Waste Management District: details about programs and services, District news and publications, and practical information to help you properly recycle or dispose of household and business wastes.
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes: youth from Vergennes, Addison, Panton, Waltham, and Ferrisburgh in grades 4 – 12 can join the Club free of charge.
- Green Mountain Foster Bikes: A Vermont-based nonprofit with a mission to give foster kids a bicycle to ride.
- Newspapers.com Access: The Vermont Department of Libraries has partnered with the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA) to provide access to Vermont newspapers through Newspapers.com. These Vermont titles are freely available to Vermonters as part of the agreement. There are now over 1 million pages of Vermont newspapers available.
- United Way of Addison County: focus on health, education, and financial stability to improve lives and strengthen Addison County.
- Vermont 211: a free, confidential information and referral program of the United Ways of Vermont, helping to connect Vermonters with a wide range of community, health, and human resources and services.
- Vermont Department of Public Services: Public WiFi hotspot locations in Vermont.
- Vermont Department of Taxes: file taxes, find tax forms, and check rates.