House Committee on Human Services (Room 46)

Thursday, February 11, 2016

9:00 AM

Living Longer, Living Well: Challenges and Opportunities Today and Tomorrow

Room 11

• Representative Ann Pugh

9:10 AM

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Demographics: What's Ahead?

• Lindsay Goldman, Deputy Director, Healthy Aging, New York Academy of Medicine

9:40 AM

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Volunteers: Giving Back & Building Community

• Winifred McDowell, volunteer, Vermont Ombudsman Project
• Frank Bell, volunteer, Camp Exclamation Point

10:05 AM

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Envisioning Tomorrow's Workforce & Work Environments

• Lenore Haskell
• Nathan Piper, Business Account Manager, Creative Workforce Solutions
• Catherine Holdway, Director, Community Care Connection, VNA of Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties

10:30 AM

Break

10:45 AM

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Caregivers: Supporting Families & Enhancing Lives

• Lauren Smith
• Linda Deliduka

11:15 AM

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Livable Communities

• Kelly Stoddard-Poor, Associate State Director, AARP
• Patricia Sears, State President, AARP

11:45 AM

Wrap-Up

12:00 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM

FLOOR

15 mins after floor adjourns

H.622 - An act relating to obligations for reporting child abuse and neglect and cooperating in investigations of child abuse and neglect

Committee Discussion

• Brynn Hare, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
• Lucie Garand, Lobbyist, Downs, Rachlin Martin PLLC
• Dr. Jaskanwar Batra, Medical Director, Department of Mental Health
• Representative Ronald E. Hubert
• Jill Olson, Vice President of Policy & Legislative Affairs, Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems

3:30 PM

Department of Mental Health

Act 114 Report

• Dr. Jaskanwar Batra, Medical Director, Department of Mental Health
• Karen Barber, Chief Legal Counsel, Department of Mental Health

4:30 PM

Adjourn