The Shumlin administration has called for an of the state's child welfare system, including hiring more than 40 new workers. The Governor says a thinly-stretched DCF and other agencies need more resources to respond to Vermont's opiate addiction crisis. We're talking about the plan and the pressures on the state's child protection services.
We're talking to Ken Schatz, commissioner of the . Also to Democratic State Representative , a former social worker who chairs the and the .
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Also on the program, we talk to University of Vermont student and National Guard Spc. Skylar Anderson, the first woman to be certified as a combat engineer.
And VPR Classical's speaks to the new executive director of the , Ben Cadwallader.
Broadcast live on Tues., December 8, 2015 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
