In 2020, the Brattleboro Selectboard established a Community Safety Review Committee to begin a focused examination of how Town resources were currently utilized and how they could be best utilized to ensure equitable community health, wellness, and safety. Learn about the Brattleboro Community Safety Review Committee, its process, and read the committee's final report on the site linked above. Page 64 begins a section titled: "Experiences with DCF."  
Families United
Families United is a peer support group for people/families who have been impacted by systems such as the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and who want to contribute to systemic and institutional changes. Families United meets at The Root in Brattleboro, Vermont, and is free and open to parents, foster parents, children, siblings, grandparents, and STRONG allies who have been affected by DCF and want to support our efforts.
Since 1972, Youth Services (now named Interaction) has been dedicated to helping families thrive. Their  mission is to build resilience and be a catalyst for change in Windham County communities. At Interaction, we believe in helping people learn how to grow, both as individuals and as a family, so they can solve their own problems. Each year, with the help of hundreds of volunteers, partially funded through individual and foundation donations, this private, nonprofit works with an average of 1,500 children, young people, and adults. They strive to ensure all clients receive services, regardless of their ability to pay.
VKAP has become known throughout Vermont as a strong advocate for kinship caregivers and the children they are raising, as well as a valuable resource for kinship families. VKAP works with families throughout Vermont and sits on a number of committees representing the voice of kinship families. VKAP also advocates for legislative and policy changes to improve the lives of children and families in the state while maintaining connections with national agencies working on behalf of kinship families.
The Vermont Consortium for Adoption and Guardianship recognizes that adoption and guardianship of children are lifelong processes with rewards and challenges. They are committed to partnering with individuals, families and communities to further the knowledge and understanding of the needs of children when they are being raised by someone other than their birth parents.  The Consortium strives to ensure that all people whose lives have been touched by adoption and guardianship have access to quality support services throughout Vermont.
VFAFA's mission is to empower, support, and unify foster and adoptive families by strengthening the systems that care for Vermont’s children. They envision a world where all foster and adoptive families have the resources they need to restore faith, hope, and joy to the children they nurture.
Vermont Child Welfare Training Project's mission is to facilitate the professional development of caregivers and the Family Services workforce to meet the complex needs of Vermont’s children, youth, and families. The Child Welfare Training Partnership’s vision is to improve safety, permanency, well-being and law abidance for Vermont’s most vulnerable children, youth and families through a competency based training program.
The Voices at the Table blog is a forum for kinship, foster, and adoptive families to share with one another.  It is also a place to learn about current resources, support, educational opportunities, and topics that are relevant to your experience. Voices at the Table was created by the Vermont Child Welfare Training Partnership (VT-CWTP), a collaboration between the University of Vermont and the Vermont Department for Children and Families.
NFI VT offers a broad range of clinical, educational, support and outreach services in home and community-based settings. Serving children, youth, and their families in their homes and communities enhances opportunities for client and family engagement and collaboration within their local provider network. The NFI Brattleboro Community Alternatives Program (BCAP) program is an intensive wraparound for children and families living in the Southern Vermont region. BCAP offers a coordinated system of community based mental health services to help children and their families increase success at home, at school, and in the community. The key elements of the program are intensive individualized case management, community skills training, medication assessment and management, support services for NFI's treatment foster care families, and respite services. 
The guiding principle of Lund's work is to ensure that every child grows up in a safe, secure, and loving family. Lund’s services ‘wrap around’ the whole family to provide services to parents, children, and sometimes, other family members. Lund supports you in addressing all challenges and barriers, and their programs work together to ensure that families are empowered to become happy, stable, and self-sufficient. Lund's integrated services — adoption, education, treatment, and family support — help Vermont’s children thrive by empowering struggling and vulnerable families to break cycles of poverty, addiction, and abuse.