Explore businesses and organizations from diverse cultural communities in Vermont. Find law firms, medical practices, restaurants, retail stores, nonprofits, and community organizations owned by or serving multicultural populations. Connect with establishments that bring global perspectives and celebrate cultural diversity in their services.
The honorary consuls are the relays of the action of the consulate .
In permanent contact with the latter, they can provide you with information, help you if you find yourself in difficulty, facilitate some of your administrative procedures by issuing you directly either life and residence certificates, or civil status records, by legalizing or certifying your signature, by certifying true to the original translations or copies.
On the other hand, they cannot issue you passports, national identity cards or laissez-passer, and you cannot carry out civil status procedures with them, such as transcription or declaration of birth, marriage or death.
Queer Connect became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in April 2019. Founder Lisa Carton recognized the dire need to build a safe and inclusive LGBTQ+ community here in our corner of Vermont. Immediately after Queer Connect’s inception in April of that year, we successfully planned and hosted the first ever Bennington Pride Weekend in June.
From the start, Queer Connect has been committed to engaging with our LGBTQ+ youth. It was them, in fact, that inspired Queer Connect into action by telling us that they need “to see adults like us out in the streets.” As our mission statement above reads, our purpose is to provide visibility and resources for our LGBTQ+ individuals and families, and we are devoted to making that a reality for our full community.
We are dedicated to increasing our visibility in the community and to building resources for LGBTQIA people and their families living in and around Bennington, Vermont. We are especially committed to supporting queer youth and their families.
Queer Connect is dedicated to doing the hard work of a community to fight for the human rights of all people. We seek to create spaces that both acknowledge the multiple marginalization, increased discrimination, and oppression individuals might experience in our community. We believe an intersectional approach to providing LGBTQ+ programs and services allows us to better support our community members and our collective liberation.
Pride Center of Vermont (PCVT) is the region’s most comprehensive community center dedicated to advancing community and the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Vermonters.
The mission of Pride Center of Vermont is to celebrate, educate, and advocate with and for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Vermonters.
There are many ways to be involved with community building. From volunteering your time helping to produce networking and social events to sponsoring programs that bring essential services to the community, being involved means being a part of changing lives and creating history.
Out in the Open connects rural LGBTQ people to build community, visibility, knowledge and power. We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit supported by donations, volunteers, and foundations.
Based in the Wabanaki Confederacy in the town and state of Brattleboro, Vermont, we work locally and regionally.
We envision a resilient community of communities that works toward the transformation of our economic, social, and political relationships.
We are building a multi-issue social justice movement of rural LGBTQ people.
Outright Vermont is a 501(c)(3) non-profit under federal and state regulations. Since 1989, we have been building hope, equity, and power with LGBTQ+ youth in Vermont.
We envision and practice our work as follows:
- An organizational model built on youth-adult partnerships which create mutual opportunities for growth, learning, and skill development.
- A queer and allied community who invest in our mission through a variety of resources that include, but are not limited to, donations of skills, time, goods, and money.
- An organization that does not give up or back down from furthering our work as an anti-oppression organization.
- A state where all queer youth have access to all of the resources they need to live safe, healthy, authentic lives.
- An organization that actively creates intentional, safe, and vibrant queer space wherever we go, in whatever we do, and wherever we live.
PFLAG Dorset formed in 2010 as a response from concerned community members – parents and friends of the LGBTQ+ community. Since 2010 PFLAG Dorset has been providing the southern Vermont with a forum for learning, advocacy and support for our LGBTQ+ friends and family.
PFLAG Dorset creates avenues for advocacy by bringing together the parents, families, and allies of LGBTQ+ persons. Using one unified voice of support, PFLAG has a unique position to speak up and speak out in support of our LGBTQ+ loved one.
PFLAG promotes the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten an ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights.
PFLAG provides opportunity for dialogue about sexual orientation and gender identity, and acts to create a society that is healthy and respectful of human diversity.
The Burlington Irish Heritage Festival celebrates and raises awareness of Irish and Irish-American culture in Burlington, Vermont and the surrounding region, with a special focus on the calendar period around St. Patrick’s Day. The BIHF works with local musicians, dancers, writers, historians, artists, and co-sponsors to create a core set of events during the week closest to St. Patrick’s Day.
The Burlington Irish Heritage Festival (BIHF), established in 1995, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, community-based organization. Its founding principle is to celebrate and raise awareness of Irish and Irish-American culture in Burlington, Vermont and the surrounding region, with a special focus on the calendar period around St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. The BIHF sponsors a core of events during the week closest to St. Patrick’s Day, with the Festival Ceili as its signature event; but it also co-sponsors or offers a promotional focus for other events with a common purpose. To this end, the BIHF works closely with local musicians, dancers, writers, historians and artists, together with the organizations and venues that support these Irish traditions.
The Alliance Française of the Lake Champlain Region (AFLCR) is a nonprofit organization based in Burlington, Vermont, where French history goes back four hundred years. The AFLCR is dedicated to promoting awareness of French and Francophone cultures and to encouraging cultural, intellectual, and artistic exchange with the French-speaking world, including activities that take advantage of our proximity to francophone Canada.
The AFLCR offers classes in French language and culture; bimonthly French conversational gatherings; and picnics, potluck parties, and member outings throughout Vermont and Quebec. Members and subscribers receive a monthly newsletter about cultural events throughout the region, as well as periodic email updates.
The AFLCR is the sole Vermont affiliate of the Federation of Alliances Françaises USA. Founded in 1902, the federation is a network of more than one hundred local U.S. chapters passionate about promoting French language and celebrating Francophone cultures.
The federation, in turn, is a chapter of the Fondation des Alliances Françaises. The fondation was founded in Paris in 1883 by Louis Pasteur, Ferdinand de Lesseps, and Jules Verne to promote the French language and celebrate Francophone cultures. Today it comprises more than eight hundred affiliates located in 137 countries worldwide.
The Japan America Society of Vermont, Inc. (JASV) is a non-political, non-profit, volunteer organization. Membership is open to anyone seeking better understanding and interaction between Japanese and Americans. The JASV is one of more than 40 Japan-America Societies in the nation, and cooperates with the Associated Japan-America Societies of the U.S.
The society seeks to improve cross cultural understanding and mutually beneficial interaction among Japanese and Vermont individuals, families, businesses and other organizations.
My practice is entirely virtual. I am able to see clients in Colorado, Florida, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with more than a decade of post-graduate clinical experience. I’m also a human being who’s living in this beautiful, challenging world, just like you.
My favorite clients are bright, young-ish (18-40ish) adults asking tough questions about themselves and their world, seeking to find meaning, joy, and growth. If you are looking for a warm and collaborative space to process your emotions and maybe get some podcast recommendations along the way, we might be a good fit.
Oh, and if the phrase “Highly Sensitive Person” means something to you (or feels like it should), I’ve got you.
Along with emerging adulthood and adjustment difficulties, interest areas include interpersonal and/or romantic relationship issues, grief, gender and sexuality concerns, anxiety, and depression.
My strengths as a clinician include forging strong relationships with my clients and providing them with various resources to help them better understand themselves and the world.