Maine Governor's Children's Cabinet
"Working Together for Maine Children and Families."
The Maine Governor’s Children’s Cabinet is chaired by First Lady Karen M. Baldacci and has as its members the commissioners of the five child-serving state agencies: Education, Health and Human Services, Corrections, Public Safety, and Labor. Also attending as members are the Governor’s policy advisors, the leadership from the Communities for Children and Youth initiative, and the USM Muskie School of Public Service.
The mission of the Children's Cabinet is to provide cross-agency coordination and program and policy development with a common goal: to measurably improve the well-being of Maine’s children, youth, and families through evidence-based practices and strength-base approaches to positive child and youth development.
The Children’s Cabinet:
- Coordinates approaches to the delivery of services;
- Establishes administrative priorities across departments and agencies/bureaus;
- Distributes through its Senior Staff and the Regional Children’s Cabinets Pooled Flexible Funds to fill one-time family needs where there is no other eligibility-related service available to keep a child or teen safely in the home;
- Leverages resources both human (staff) and financial, that maximizes funding by collaborative grants and best use of federal funding streams, as mandates allow.
- Operationalizes the Governor’s commitment to creating better outcomes for children and youth in Maine.
For the complete Annual Children’s Cabinet Reports and additional information about all of the Children’s Cabinet activities, please refer to the Children’s Cabinet website at http://www.maine.gov/cabinet.
