New Hampshire considers separate children s services agency Follow Us
Question of the Day By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press - Wednesday, March 3, 2021
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire’s efforts to protect and help vulnerable children would be spun off into a separate agency under a bill before a Senate committee Wednesday.
Currently, child protection, foster and adoptive care, juvenile justice and programs to support families are part of the Department of Health and Human Services, the state’s largest agency. Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, proposes creating a new department of children’s services and juvenile justice.
Doing so would elevate the complex problems affecting children, from the opioid crisis to the coronavirus pandemic, she told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She praised reforms overseen by Joe Ribsam, director of the Division for Children, Youth an
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