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Correspondence, memos and reports on the administration of the Agency of Human Services. Includes materials on the debate between the Commissioner and Bishop John Marshall over state funding for abortion; issues of child care, care for the elderly, jobs for the poor, and medical care costs.
The Delinquency Prevention Coordinating Council material concerns legislation pertaining to juveniles, the need for a new detention facility, and the funding of delinquency prevention projects by the council. There are also two reports on the prevention of problem behaviors.
These files include letters (such as requests for parole) from prison inmates to the governor's office and the commissioner's office and their respective responses, as well as some material on the Board of Parole, transfer requests, and Weeks School material. Pardons, an executive function, are filed with the Executive Department series.
Correspondence, memos and reports about the running of the office, especially regarding complaints about various Health Department actions. Includes much material on the emerging problem of low-level radioactive waste materials, seat belt use, water quality issues including lead poisoning, Legionnaires' Disease, expansion of hospital facilities, and planning for health care needs.
Correspondence, memos and reports on the administration of the office. Includes materials on the issues of care for the emotionally disturbed, mentally handicapped and developmentally disabled. Traces the growth of advocacy programs and de-institutionalization. Includes many petitions from employees at the Vermont State Hospital concerning their labor contract.
Correspondence, memos and reports on the administration of the office. Includes materials on social issues of the day. Includes materials on juvenile justice, juvenile detention, adoption, alchohol and drug abuse, day care, and the 1980 rapes/murder in Essex Junction.
Correspondence, memos and reports about running the department as well as materials on specific issues: abortion, medical care for the poor, food stamps, housing for the poor, children of the poor, welfare reform. A lot of material is correspondence with people who are going over the head of the agency to appeal to the governor for help.
Files created by the governor's office related to medicaid payments for nursing home residents and other issues involving nursing homes.
Correspondence, memos and reports about children and childhood. Includes materials on the White House Conference on Children and Youth.
Files created by the governor's office related to the functioning of the office and the block grants it administered. Contains a lengthy report on poverty in Vermont as well as material about the weatherization program.
Correspondence, memos and reports about issues facing the aging, with no particular emphasis. Includes materials about the planning of the White House Conference on Aging, 1981.
Correspondence and memos about appointments to the Health Policy Corporation, reorganization of the Corporation and related legislation.