Texans participation takes the Maryland section for children
An elected leader of Texas with a passion for family issues took the helm of the last week in Dir Martin O’Malley of the section for children in Maryland.
Dolores Briones, 56 years, said that, as executive director, its priorities are the strengthening of cooperation between public authorities, the provision of services for children and families have a uniform approach.
“What we do here is to connect the points, so we have every child and every family,” said Briones, started on December 10.
She arrives at the position for many years in Texas, where they finally elected leaders, or “judge” of El Paso County, serving from 1999 to 2006. It was the first of its kind El Paso leader in more than two decades to elect a second term.
“Dolores Briones brings a wealth of experience to the position, and I am convinced that the governor of the section for children can benefit greatly from their expertise,” said O’Malley in a statement. How O’Malley, Briones is a democrat.
One of their success in Texas was an initiative called “Good Good family tomorrow,” a political agenda should contribute to combat the self-sufficiency of families and, at the same time saves tax dollars for the high costs of these services as Out-of-town promotion of emergency care visits juvenile delinquency and detention.
Under the National Labor Relations Briones an office, supports the child support cases and tax assistance office, with the support of families in terms of levying tax on income earned their assets. In addition, the program supports families in the entry in the Federal Constitution-Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP.
Their aim is, she said, beyond families and thinking rather than strengthen them, insofar as we need fewer services. “She added:” I tried to show that, over the long term, we are saving money. ”
Although widely again in Maryland, Briones was part of the first class of fellows on the basis of Baltimore Annie E. Casey Foundation, on behalf of disadvantaged families. The bourse Casey, she says, “expanded and increased” their interest in the issues of children. Ralph Smith, Casey’s Senior Vice President, said impressed by the Briones as head, translate ideas into policies and programmes.
“It was a clear thinker, a driver and a hard consensus Builder,” he said. Their efforts showed in Texas, “the willingness to listen, learn the willingness and capacity at different points of view and unlikely allies, for his work for children and families,” said Smith.
Briones, a social worker by training, she believes, himself a policy wonk, took advantage of brilliant experience. Do El Paso, in a family of 10 children, Briones is a 1974 graduate of Stanford University. She earned a Master’s Degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978.
She raised two children, Marisa Ybarra, 29, and Felipe Ybarra, 26, as a single mother.
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