CAP is a collaboration between the VT Attorney General’s Office and UVM. For more than four decades, service-learning students have been an integral part of the CAP team. Students learn about consumer problems while building career skills in a supportive office environment.
Vermont's free and local resource for consumer help and scam prevention
If you are looking for consumer help and scam prevention in Vermont, visit the Vermont Attorney General's Office or call us at 1-800-649-2424.
Service-learn or intern with CAP
In UVM CDAE 2590 and an expanded CDAE 3590 course, CAP students help the Vermont community. CAP helps consumers and businesses resolve consumer problems through a complaint mediation service and helps connect contacts to additional information and referral services.
CAP is a great opportunity for college students interested in making a difference.
- Help Vermonters
- Learn about government, law and policy
- Understand consumer rights
- Address pressing consumer issues
CAP is in the Community and Applied Economics Department on campus and provides students with hands-on applied learning opportunities.
- Take CDAE 2590 one semester and then CDAE 3590 the next to deepen your knowledge and experience and build your resume.
- We also offer internships and work study opportunities.
- $2.17M Amount CAP, with the help of service-learning students, recovered/saved Vermonters in 2024