health & Safety

Dear fairfax community library patron:
you are not alone.
you are cherished. ​you are vital.

sensitivity advisory

Information and resources included below and throughout the Library's website may be distressing to members of our community depending on respective lived experiences. Please view these with self-care.

Patrons who disagree with these resources and the furnishing thereof: Please remember the Library is open to all, and is charged with providing unbiased, verified, accurate information for patrons of all lived experiences. Please confer with our Patron Code of Conduct and other policies and guidelines for more information.

Contents

This page, Health & Safety, contains information about the following aspects of health:
  • General Information
  • Seasonal
  • Food Access
  • Housing
  • Mental & Emotional Well-Being
  • Digital Well-Being
  • Violence Prevention, Treatment & Support
  • Lyme, EEE, WNV & Other Insect-Borne Illnesses
  • Environmental Well-Being
  • Disability
  • Substance Dependence & Cessation
  • COVID-19
  • For Our Animal Companions

Information specific to various communities can be found on the Military & Veterans and LGBTQ+ Resources pages.

For [health insurance and other information pending], see the Financial & Legal page.

For [employment, unemployment, and other information pending], see the Education & Employment page.

general information

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • Frymore Community Health Resource Center? (via SBPL)
  • Health & Wellness Resource via GaleGroup (via SBPL)
  • Family Doctor: familydoctor.org
  • ​DCF
  • Internet Essentials?
  • Green Mountain Transit
  • LIHEAP through DCF?
  • VT Community Action Partnership: vermontcap.org
  • VT Health Care Advocate
  • VT Health Connect
  • VT Health Link
  • VT Department of Health
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Alateen
    • Support for those affected by someone else's drinking.
  • Nemours(R) KidsHealth(R): All About Puberty
  • National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA)
  • Anorexia Nervosa & Related Eating Disorders (AnRed)
    • "A website dedicated to making it easier for you to learn about eating disorders and how to recover from them" (from the site)
  • Columbia Health's Go Ask Alice
    • Health Q&A.
  • American Sexual Health Association (ASHA)'s I Wanna Know!
    • Independent, unbiased sexual health information.

Seasonal: SUmmer Safety TIps

Picture
Courtesy of Vermont 211.

Food Access

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • Fairfax Food Shelf
  • 3 Squares
  • VT Food Pantries: foodpantries.org/st/vermont
  • Fooducate
  • Hunger Free Vermont

Housing

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • ​VT State Housing Authority

 mental & emotional well-being

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • 988
  • Deconstructing Stigma​​
  • Crisis Text Line
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
  • VT Counseling Network
  • Northwestern Counseling & Support Services (NCSS) (VT)
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  • VT Peer Support Line
  • All Brains Belong
  • VT Department of Mental Health

digital well-being

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • Library materials
    • Exploding Data
    • Tools and Weapons
    • Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts
    • How to Maintain Your Privacy Online
  • BFA-Fairfax Library's Fact vs. Fiction--Determining Credibility
  • Snopes
  • Digital Defense Fund--digitaldefensefund.org
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation--ssd.eff.org
  • Right To Be--righttobe.org
  • Digital safety for kids: https://kidzsearch.com/ (via SBPL)
  • Digital Well-Being: https://www.thehotline.org/plan-for-safety/internet-safety/

violence prevention, treatment & support

  • Samaritan House (VT)
  • Safe Harbor VT
  • HERVermont?
  • Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
  • 1 in 6
  • FORGE
  • Helping Survivors (via EGO website)
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline
  • Safe Space (VT)
  • Voices Against Violence (VT)

lyme, EEE, WNV & other insect-borne illnesses

Sensitivity Advisory: Squeamish alert!

Tick-Borne Illnesses ​
Mosquito-Borne Illnesses

environmental well-being

Environmental health also creates informed consumers!

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • Environmental Working Group (EWG)
  • Environmental Defence Canada
  • Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
  • LEED
  • Ecology Center of Michigan, Healthy Stuff report
  • National Organic Standards Board (NOSB)
  • Certified B Corporations
  • Happy Cow
  • Cruelty-Free (happy bunny?)
  • Info on greenwashing

disability

[Information & Links Pending.]

substance dependence & cessation

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • 802 Quits
  • Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
  • Alateen
  • Drug Rehab VT?

covid-19

General
Testing​
Vaccines

for our animal companions

[Information & Links Pending.]
  • Local veterinarians?
  • Happy Cow
  • Cruelty-Free (happy bunny?)
  • ASPCA houseplants list

See also the Environmental Well-Being section above.