Wolf seeks new approach to helping ‘vulnerable populations’
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday he will revamp how the state provides help to people who need to be protected and cared for by state agencies.
The Democratic governor signed an order setting up a 25-member group that has three months to propose changes that will improve services to what’s he’s calling “vulnerable populations.”
Wolf also set up the Office of Advocacy and Reform and will hire a child advocate for the new agency under his office.
He directed agencies to try to reduce the number of people living in institutional settings, to improve how referrals are made for inspector general investigations and to mine state data to identify problems more quickly.
Wolf said the need for change was highlighted by some high-profile cases, including harm to children and older people.
Among them was a Philadelphia Inquirer investigation that said students at Glen Mills School in Delaware County had been subjected to violent attacks from staffers, including broken bones and threats to place them in worse places. The state announced it was revoking the juvenile detention facility’s licenses in April.
Another incident prompting the changes was the death of 14-year-old Grace Packer, who was raped, tortured and murdered.
Packer had extensive contact with the child welfare system before she was killed in a sweltering attic outside Philadelphia.
Wolf also cited cases of abuse against nursing home residents, people struggling to get mental health treatment and those with substance abuse problems who he said have been taken advantage of while seeking treatment.
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May I suggest you add the unborn to your list of "vulnerable populations".
Perhaps we've been missing something here in PA.
The term "Vulnerable" has me bothered. Sort of like "Hate Crimes". You make up categories that can be subjective in that, the definition can become relative to... whatever?
At some point, only certain people will be considered "Vulnerable". Only those live matter after that happens.
What's a libertarians view on abortion? Rand Paul is against it, because he concerns for the most vulnerable, the one who's not yet grown a voice. How about Joe? What's Joe think about abortion?
Well I embrace absolute truth and certainty in making decisions. Science trumps tradition with folks like you, so here it is...
Biology. When considering the question of when a new human life begins, you must first address the more fundamental question of when a new cell, distinct from sperm and egg, comes into existence. It is called life, when living cells give rise to new types of cells and, ultimately, to new individuals. Science!
The joining (or fusion) of sperm and egg clearly produces a new cell type, the zygote or one-cell embryo. Cell fusion, well studied, is a very rapid event, occurring in less than a second. Because the zygote arises from the fusion of two different cells, it contains all the components of both sperm and egg, and therefore this new cell has a unique molecular composition that is distinct from either gamete. Thus the zygote that comes into existence at the moment of sperm-egg fusion meets the first scientific criterion for being a new cell type: its molecular make-up is clearly different from that of the cells that gave rise to it. NEW LIFE!
I, Mike Meyers, stand up for that new life, and the right to life that new life has.
Does the libertarian mind paying taxes, and having there tax money go to people who rip that new life, out of the womb of a mother? It appears the libertarian chooses the path of least resistance. The majority of this country might follow you in that easy wide open path of least resistance, but I don't. God certainly doesn't agree with abortion. But, us God fearing folk are of the old school, anti science, traditionalists, who don't really know a whole lot. I don't make decisions on opinions, I make them on common sense and scientific facts (absolutes).
Good luck with that Joe, it's got too many gaps for me to participate. That religion requires more faith than I have.