Family Emergency Services (FES)
Crisis Response & Stabilization Team – Bennington County
Provides 24-hour crisis hotline, outreach 8am-8pm weekdays, assessment, referrals for intensive family-based services, short -term shelter beds, runaway & homeless youth services, consultation to schools & system-wide crisis planning & intervention
Contact: Keili Trottier
Phone: 802-447-8270 (X30) (Non-Emergency)
Emergency: 802- 442-1700 or 800-360-6621
For: youth, family, and caregivers
Fee: None – will bill Medicaid if available
3 visits with FES then referrals
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC)
All programs and classes with dates, places, & prices listed under the direct link to SVMC website homepage.
Contact: Kim Turner (Wellness Coordinator)
Phone: 802-447-5076
Website: www.svhealthcare.org
Specialized Children’s Services
Provides family outreach services, respite care, school-based services, Bennington jobs, early childhood part-nership, therapeutic care management, & transitional living program.
Designed to serve severely disturbed children & families
Contact: Lorna Mattern
Phone: 802-442-5491 (X) (Non-Emergency)
Emergency: 802- 442-1700 or 800-360-6621
Sunrise Family Resource Center
Non-Profit parent/child center whose mission is strengthening families. Open 40 years with child daycare services as well as by “1984″ had included parent support and education services to families.
Contact: Michelle Weyers
Phone: 802-442-1665
Website: www.sunrisefamilyresourcecenter.com
Tobacco- Free Community Partners
This is an education, resource, prevention, and connection network whose mission is to prevent first tome tobacco use among youth and reduce its use across all ages in the Bennington area. In collaboration with several community members and organizations, including SVMC, Tobacco-Free Community Partners are working for a healthier community.
Contact: Kiah Morris, Community Coordinator
Phone: 802- 447-6478
Email: tobaccofreebennington@gmail.com
Website: www.tobaccofreecommunitypartners.org
Meetings: Every Third Tuesday (Noon-1:30PM)
Vermont Dept. of Health
Main purpose is to provide federally-funded, health and nutrition programs – including supplemental foods (milk, cheese, cereal, peanut e Womens, Children, Infants Program (WIC) butter, eggs, beans, bread, rice, tuna, fruits and vegetables) , health, care referrals and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding, postpartum women, infants, and children.
Phone: 802-447-3531
Age: 0-5
Website: www.healthvermont.gov
Social Services – Adult Day Care
Bennington Project Independence (BPI)
We provide adult respite care in a daycare setting for frail
older persons, younger adults with handicapping conditions and their families.
Phone: 802-442-8136 Fax:802-447-8291
Location: 614 Harwood Hill
PO Box 1504
throughout Bennington County.
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
or Visit Website: www.benningtonprojectindependence.org
Social Services – Adult Education
Bennington College
Liberal Arts Studies
Location: One College Drive
Phone: 802-442-5401
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call or check Website
Website: www.benningtoncollege.edu
Community College of Vermont (CCV)
Liberal Arts Studies
Location: 324 Main Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-2361
Fax: 802-447-3246
Information: Please call or check Website
Website: www.ccv.edu
Southern Vermont College (SVC)
Liberal Arts Studies
Location: 982 Mansion Drive
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-5427
Information: Please call or check Website
Website: www.svc.edu
Southwestern VT Career Development Center
Vocational Technical Training
Location: 321 Park Street
Phone: 802-447-0220
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call or check Website
Website: www.svcdc.org
The Tutorial Center
We provide basic literary support, GED preparation and testing, private tutorial services, and a variety of other educational programs throughout Bennington County.
Location: 208 Pleasant Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-0111
Fax: 802-442-7607
Information: Please call or check Website
Website: www.tutorialcenter.org
Social Services – Adoption & Foster Care
Agency of Human Services (AHS-formerly SRS)
Help with children regarding adoption, foster care, child abuse, and child care subsidy.
Phone: 802-442-8138
Information: Please call
Social Services – Child Care
Bennington County Child Care Association (BCCCA)
BCCCA is a community non-profit agency that promotes quality child care by helping parents find child care placements, administering Child Care Subsidy Program, which helps families pay for regulated child care, and by providing training and support to early care and education providers.
Location: 1522 East Road
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-3778
Social Services – Disability Resources
Vermont Center for Independent Living (VCIL)
VCIL helps Vermonters with disabilities be more independent through advocacy, information, referral, peer advocacy counseling, independent living services and home and community access. VCIL administers VT-EDP which provides up to $400 for equipment to help deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing, speech impaired Vermonters to communicate by telephone. VCIL also has the ED Roberts Library, a comprehensive, fully accessible disability library.
Phone: 802-447-0574
Location: 324 Main Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Social Services – Education/Prevention
American Red Cross
We offer health and safety education, CPR and first aid training, babysitter classes, water safety instruction, first aid for children and BAT (Basic Aid Training).
Contact: Jay Loftus
Address: 240 North Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-9458 Fax: 802-447-2550
Information: Please call, Email, or Check Website
Email: jloftus@gmcarc.org
Website: www.gmcarc.org
Bennington Area AIDS Project
We provide case management, alternative therapies, the Buddy Program, men’s programs, housing assistance, financial assistance, and pre/post counseling.
Contact:
HIV
Phone: 802-442-4481
Information: Please call
Bennington Planned Parenthood
Provides Information and education on parenthood
Phone: 802-442-8166 or 802-442-2206
Location: 194 North Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Care Net Pregnancy Center
Phone: 802-442-2002
Location: 109 Silver Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Social Services –Education/Prevention : Children
Bennington County Sheriff’s D.A.R.E.
We offer a 17-week curriculum directed at K, 2nd, 4th, 5th, & 8th grade students presented by a specially trained, anti-drug and anti-violence message. The program features uniformed deputy teaching an straight talk about drugs, gangs, and violence.
Phone: 802-442-4900
Location: 212 Lincoln Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Website: www.benningtonsheriff.org
Success by Six
Success by Six collaborates with over 18 agencies to sponsor a wide variety of activities for young children and their families across three supervisory unions. These activities include newborn visits, hands-on educational bags, family literacy initiatives, play groups, transition services and more.
Location: Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-5491
Information: Please Call
Social Services – Education/Prevention/Financial Assistance
PATH (Prevention, Assistance, Transition, & Health Access)
Reach-Up Community Work Experience Program
Medicaid, Dr. Dynosaur, Disabled Child Home Care
Phone: 802-442-8541
Information: Please call
Social Services – Education/Support – Elder Care
Alzheimer’s Association
We offer support, assistance, and educational referral. Our resources include a video and book library, newsletter, helpline, respite registry, Caregiver manual.
Phone: 800-698-1022
Information: Please call
Bennington Project Independence (BPI)
We provide adult respite care in a daycare setting for frail
older persons, younger adults with handicapping conditions and their families.
Phone: 802-442-8136 Fax:802-447-8291
Location: 614 Harwood Hill
PO Box 1504
throughout Bennington County.
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
or Visit Website: www.benningtonprojectindependence.org
Southwestern VT Council on Aging
The goal of our agency is to help persons age 60 and older to maintain independence. Our case managers assist in exploring options and linking elders to services.
Location: 124 Pleasant St
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-5436
Information: Please Call
Social Services – Emergency/Prevention/Support
Agency of Human Services (AHS-formerly SRS)
Help with children regarding adoption, foster care, child abuse, and child care subsidy
Phone: 802-442-8138
Information: Please call
Family time (PAVE)
Help with children regarding adoption, foster care, child abuse, and child care subsidy. We provide monitored family time with non-custodial parents and extended family members.
Phone: 802-442-7007
Mailing: PO Box 277
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Project Against Violent Encounters (PAVE)
Domestic violence and sexual assault response agency
Phone: 802-442-2370
802-442-2111 (Emergency)
Information: Please call
Social Services – Financial Assistance/Utilities/Fuel
Bennington-Rutland Opportunity Council (BROC)
We are a community action agency serving Bennington and Rutland.
Our programs and services include community service and outreach, nutrition education, community development and housing, economic development, or Check Web micro-business and energy conservation and weatherization. Our mission is to help people become self-sufficient by “ helping people help themselves.”
Location: 332 Orchard Rd, Ste 10
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Website: www.broc.org
Social Services – Food/Clothing
American Red Cross
Nearly New Shop
Phone: 802-442-9458
Information: Please call
Bennington-Rutland Opportunity Council (BROC)
Good Cents Store
Phone: 802-447-8466
Information: Please call
Green Mountain Christian Center
Phone: 802-447-7224
Information: Please call
Goodwill Thrift Store
Phone: 802-442-4285
Information: Please call
Sacred Heart/St Francis de Sales Church
Food/Clothing
Phone: 802-442-3141
Information: Please call
The Salvation Army-Bennington
Phone: 802-442-2774
Information: Please call
Social Services – Food/Clothing: Emergency Food Assistance & Meals
Bennington County Meals Program (BCMP)
We provide “Meals on Wheels” to seniors in Bennington County. We have meal sites at the Bennington Senior Center and in the Manchester Town Hall Offices. Meals are served daily, Monday-Friday. Frozen meals are provided for “Meals on Wheels” clients for the weekend.
Location: 124 Pleasant Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-8012
Location: Town Hall Offices
Manchester, VT 05254
Bennington-Rutland Opportunity Council (BROC)
We are a community action agency serving Bennington and Rutland counties. Our programs and services include community service and outreach, nutrition education, community development and housing, economic development, micro-business and energy conservation and weatherization. Our mission is to help people become self-sufficient by “ helping people help themselves.”
Location: 332 Orchard Rd
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-7515
Information: Please call
American Red Cross
Bennington Disaster Services
Phone: 802-442-9458
Information: Please call
Bible Baptist Church
Emergency Food
Phone: 802-442-4281
Information: Please call
Harvest House Soup Kitchen
Free meals and ministries
Location: 101-103 River Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-4739
Methodist Church
Emergency Food
Phone: 802-442-5920
Information: Please call
North Bennington Baptist Church
Emergency Food
Phone: 802-442-2711
Information: Please call
Sacred Heart/St Francis de Sales Church
Emergency Food
Phone: 802-442-3141
Information: Please call
St John The Baptist Food Pantry
Emergency Food
Phone: 802-447-7504
Information: Please call
Social Services – Home Health/Hospice
Bennington Area Home Health Agency
We are a professional health organization that provides in-home services including adult and pediatric nursing, occupational nursing, speech therapy, physical therapy, social work, home health aides, and hospice care.
Location: 100 Hospital Drive, Suite 126
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-5502
Hospice of Bennington County
We provide emotional, spiritual, and physical care to the terminally ill with a prognosis of 6 months or less to live. Services are free of charge.
We currently have a hospice house on Dewey Street which houses two and is free of charge. We also have volunteers who go into homes and nursing homes wherever needed.
Location: 544 Main Street
PO Box 1231
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-0307
Manchester Health Services
We provide visiting nurses, home-bound and out-patient therapy, licensed nurses’s aides, respite homemakers, exercise programs, maternal child health program, PACE program, and more.
Location: Main Street
Manchester Ctr., VT 05255
Phone: 802-362-2126
Social Services – Housing/Subsidized Housing
Applegate
We offer subsidized and public housing.
Location: 87 Applegate Drive
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-2573
Information: Please call
Bennington Coalition for the Homeless/Six Bank Street
We provide transitional housing to families and help them address the issues that caused their homelessness so they can achieve a long-term stable living situation.
6 Bank Street
No Bennington, VT 05257
Phone: 802-442-2424
Information: Please call
Bennington Housing Authority
We are a public housing agency offering disabled, senior, and subsidized housing. We rent subsidized apartments and have a voucher
program which subsidizes people in the private rental sector.
10 Willow Road
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-8000
Fax:802-442-7301
Information: Please call
Habitat for Humanity – Bennington
Contact:
Phone: 802-442-3717
Information: Please call
Regional Affordable Housing (RAHC)
We upgrade existing neighborhoods through renovation and restoration. We offer rental units and homeownership opportunities to residents with family incomes at or below 80% of median income in Bennington County.
Mailing: PO Box 1247
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-442-8139
Information: Please call or Check Website
Website: www.rahcbennington.org
Rural Economic & Community Development Service
(Formerly Farmers Home Administration)
Phone: 802-775-8957
Information: Please call
Vermont State Housing Authority
Phone: 800-820-5119
Information: Please call
Social Services – Medical Care: Free
Bennington Free Clinic
We are a not-for-profit medical clinic that provides free primary medical care, care coordination, and referral to uninsured adult residents of Bennington County and the surrounding area. We do not perform emergency care.
Location: 601 Main Street
PO Box 702
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802-447-3700
Website: www.benningtonfreeclinic.org
Email: bennfreeclinic@gmail.com
Age: Over 18
Please call for appointments
Social Services – Medical Care: Financial Aid
Ladies First
Mammography & pap tests
Phone: 800-508-2222
Information: Please call
Social Services – Nursing Home
Bennington Health & Rehabilitation
Phone: 802-442-8525
Mailing: 2 Blackberry Lane
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Centers for Living & Rehabilitation
We operate Level I & II nursing
Phone: 802-447-1547
Mailing: 160 Hospital Drive
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Crescent Manor Nursing Home
Phone: 802-447-1501
Mailing: Crescent Blvd
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Prospect Nursing Home
Phone: 802-447-7144
Mailing: 24 Prospect Street
No Bennington, VT 05257
Information: Please call
Vermont Veterans Home
We operate Level I & II nursing for veterans
Phone: 802-442-6353
Mailing: 325 North Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
Social Services – Self Help/Support Group
ADAP & Adult Children of Alcoholics
Substance abuse prevention specialist
Phone: 802-442-3929
Information: Please call
Social Services – Volunteer, Work Experience Opportunities
CARENET Volunteer Coordinating Center
Volunteer Opportunites.
Phone: 802-447-1545
Location:
Bennington, VT 05201
Information: Please call
RSVP – Retired & Senior Volunteer Program
Bennington County office
215 Pleasant Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Phone: 802 447-1545
Fax: 802 447-1868
Website: www.rsvpvt.org