State agency will take preventative approach to child welfare, help children and families overcome barriers to success

In doing big projects like the DCYF creation there are tasks that have crazy deadlines (getting a payment system in place, payroll, filing new rules on time, etc.) and tasks that are often more important, but don’t have the same emergent time deadlines. It’s easy to let the latter linger.

We are excited to announce additional leadership hires for DCYF.

As Secretary Hunter mentioned in a previous post, my role at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families is to oversee the division of Programs for Children and Families. We have begun the challenging yet critical task of building a leadership team for this division. We announced a few weeks ago that Connie Lambert-Eckel and Marybeth Queral will be joining me in this work.