Vermont Statutes Title 3. Executive, § 3902. Office of Economic Opportunity

(1) to secure and retain meaningful employment;

(2) to obtain adequate education;

(3) to make better use of available income;

(4) to provide and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment;

(5) to obtain services for the prevention of narcotics addiction, alcoholism, and for the rehabilitation of narcotic addicts and alcoholics;

(6) to obtain emergency assistance through loans and grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services, nutritious food, housing, and unemployment-related assistance;

(7) to remove obstacles and solve personal and family problems which block achievement of self-sufficiency;

(8) to achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community;

(9) to make more frequent and effective use of other programs related to the purposes of this chapter;

(10) to coordinate and establish linkages between governmental and other social service programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low-income persons;  and to encourage the use of entities in the private sector of the community in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the community.