SUBCABINET FOR CHILDREN, YOUTH, & FAMILIES

[photo, 301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland]

Chair: M. Teresa Garland, Esq., Special Secretary for Children, Youth, & Families

Designated by Governor: Jean W. Roesser, Secretary of Aging; Victor L. Hoskins, Secretary of Housing & Community Development; Audrey E. Scott, Secretary of Planning.

Ex officio: Cecilia Januszkiewicz, Secretary of Budget & Management; Kristen Cox, Secretary of Disabilities; Nancy S. Grasmick, Ph.D., State Superintendent of Schools; S. Anthony McCann, Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene; Christopher J. McCabe, Secretary of Human Resources; Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., Secretary of Juvenile Services.

301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland, March 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Staff: Malaika Anderson

c/o Office for Children, Youth, & Families
301 West Preston St., Suite 1502
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 767-6211
e-mail: manderson@ocyf.state.md.us
fax: (410) 333-5248
toll free: 1-877-MD YOUTH (639-6884)
tty: (410) 333-3098
web: www.ocyf.state.md.us

In 1987, the Subcabinet for Children, Youth, and Families was created by the Governor as the Subcabinet for Children and Youth. It received its present name in 1990. Established by statute in 1993, the Subcabinet works to improve the structure and organization of State services to children, youth, and families (Chapter 556, Acts of 1993).

Seven ex officio members serve on the Subcabinet. The Governor may designate representatives from other agencies to serve as well. The Special Secretary for Children, Youth, and Families chairs the Subcabinet. The Office for Children, Youth, and Families serves as its staff (Code 1957, Art. 49D, sec. 4.1).

SUBCABINET PARTNERSHIP TEAM
Staff: Malaika Anderson (410) 767-6211
e-mail: manderson@ocyf.state.md.us

Designated by participating agencies: Andrea L. Alexander; Carol Ann Baglin, Ed.D.; Jean E. Clarren; Kathleen Lennon Clough; Barbara DiPietro; M. Teresa Garland, Esq.; JoAnn G. Goedert; Rosemary K. Johnston; Nancy Kirchner; Denese F. Maker; Theodore V. Martin; Brian Rice; Arlene H. Stephenson; Denise C. Sulzbach; Charlene H. Uhl; Bobette Watts; Clark R. Williams; Albert Zachik, M.D.

The Subcabinet Partnership Team makes policy recommendations and manages daily operations of the Subcabinet for Children, Youth, and Families. The Team includes a deputy secretary or equivalent and the chief financial officer of each State agency represented on the Subcabinet.

RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT & LICENSING COMMITTEE
Staff: Deborah C. Wilder (410) 767-6247
e-mail:

dwilder@ocyf.state.md.us

Vacancy, Co-Chair (chosen by Subcabinet)
Albert Zachik, M.D., Co-Chair (chosen by Subcabinet)

Appointed by Subcabinet Partnership Team: Hassan Amin; Nancy Boone; Jean E. Clarren; Deborah Cooper; Kate Dixon; William H. Dorrill; JoAnn G. Goedert; Darlene Ham; Debra J. Hayes; Juanita Hoyle; Christie L. Johnson; William Lee; James McComb; Clare McNiff; Bernard Pressley; Steven Sorin; Ertha Sterling; Shelley Tinney; William Towey; Grace E. Turner; Beverly Ursic; Bobette Watts; Pocahontas Wilkinson.

The Resource Development and Licensing Committee began as two separate entities, the Licensing Policy Board and the Resource Development Committee, both created by the Subcabinet for Children, Youth, and Families in 1991. They consolidated under their current name in 1998. The Committee's goal is to provide a complete system of services for children that ensures their safety and assists their families, preferably without removing them from their homes.

When children have been committed to the care of a local department of social services or through the courts, to the Department of Juvenile Justice, they require a variety of services. Children placed in residential programs also have special social, educational, developmental or medical needs. The Committee identifies what services children might require and determines how the State can best provide those services. Assistance may include prenatal care, parenting education, medical care, family and individual counseling, mentoring, tutoring, dropout intervention, and recreation and enrichment. It also may address problems of substance abuse, domestic violence, and poverty.

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