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Vermont Child Poverty Council

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Previous Meetings - Full Report

Summary Report

Friday, December 4, 2009
Meeting Details
Hearing Type
Standard
CDs
09-1,2,3,4
Meeting Record
9:00 AM

Review of Report Recommendations

  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
9:30 AM

Agency Updates

  • Stephen Dale, Commissioner, Department for Children & Families
  • Russell Frank, Health Programs Administrator, Office of Vermont Health Access and Health Care Reform
  • Susan Hayes, Department of Education
  • Pat Moulton Powden, Commissioner, Department of Labor
  • Renee Richardson, Director, Food Stamp Program
  • Gail Taylor, Director, Standards & Assessment, Department of Education
  • Armando Vilaseca, Commissioner, Department of Education
11:00 AM

Current State of Poverty and Impacts on Children in Vermont

Boys and Girls Club Panel

  • Beth Baldwin Page, Executive Director, Boys and Girls Clubs of Brattleboro
  • Larry Bayle, Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club of Rutland
  • Katina Cummings, Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club of the White River Valley
  • Mary Alice McKenzie, Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club of Burlington
  • Leisa Pollander, Executive Director, Sara Holbrook Center
  • Vicky Smith, Executive Director, King Street Center
1:00 PM

Next Steps

  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Monday, February 1, 2010
Meeting Details
Hearing Type
Standard
Comments
Room 10
CDs
10-1
Meeting Record
1:00 PM

Modernizing Poverty Measures

By phone

  • Jodie Levin-Epstein, Deputy Director, Center for Law and Social Policy
1:45 PM

Agency Reports on Child Poverty Council Recommendations

  • Wendy Davis, Commissioner, Department of Health
  • Susan Mesner, Economist, Department of Taxes
2:15 PM

Updates from Work Groups on Plans and Next Steps

3:45 PM

Confirm Next Meeting Date and Agenda Ideas


Monday, March 29, 2010
Meeting Details
Hearing Type
Standard
Comments
Meeting Cancelled
Meeting Record
1:00 PM

To Be Announced


Thursday, September 9, 2010
Meeting Details
Hearing Type
Standard
CDs
10-1,2,3,4,5
Meeting Record
9:00 AM

Conference on Achievement Gap Working Group Report

  • Carlen Finn, Director, Voices for Vermont's Children
  • Nicole Mace, Voices for Vermont's Children
9:35 AM

Kids Insurance Gap Working Group Report

  • Sen. Jane Kitchel
  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
9:45 AM

TANF Reauthorization Working Group Report

  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
  • Rep. Ann Pugh, Co-Chair
9:50 AM

Benchmarks Working Group

  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
10:00 AM

Families in Deep Poverty Working Group Report

  • Travis Blalock, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth College
  • Serena Laws, Policy Research Manager, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth College
  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
10:30 AM

Panel: Lessons Learned from Other States

  • John Kefalas, Representative, Colorado
  • Jodie Levin-Epstein, Deputy Director, Center for Law and Social Policy
  • Doug Schenkelberg, Hartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
  • Deborah Schlick, Executive Director, Affirmative Options Coalition
  • Terry Schooley, Representative, Delaware
12:00 PM

Committee Discussion, 2011 Work Plan

  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
12:45 PM

Adjourn


Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Meeting Details
Hearing Type
Standard
CDs
10-6,7,8,9
Meeting Record
12:10 PM

Introductions

And thanks to Senator Racine

  • Rep. Ann Pugh, Co-Chair, House Human Services Committee
12:35 PM

Update on Grant

  • Shaun Donahue, Department of Children & Families
12:45 PM

Review Work Plan Notes from Last Meeting

  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
12:50 PM

Updates from Working Groups

  • Sen. Jane Kitchel
  • Robin Lunge, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council
  • Nicole Mace, Research Coordinator, Voices for Vermont's Children
  • Tim Searles, Executive Director, Community Action Agencies & Micro-Business Development Programs
1:45 PM

Break

2:00 PM

Prioritization of Initiatives for 2011

  • Susan Palmer, Susan Palmer Consulting
2:45 PM

Break

3:00 PM

Working Group Meetings

3:30 PM

Reports from Working Groups and Debriefing

  • Susan Palmer, Susan Palmer Consulting

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Vermont Child Poverty Council
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Members
  • Rep. Ann Pugh, Co-Chair
  • Sen. Douglas A. Racine, Co-Chair
  • Rep. Johannah Leddy Donovan
  • Sen. Harold Giard
  • Sen. Jane Kitchel
  • Rep. Carolyn W. Partridge
  • Donna Bister
  • Stephen Dale
  • Carlen Finn
  • Jeff Francis
  • Karen Lafayette
  • Karen Richards
  • Valerie Rickert
  • Armando Vilaseca
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