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Human Services director outlines youth, senior and opioid priorities as Wheaton Fund distributions shift
Summary
Human Services Director Jeannie Milstein told the Finance Committee the department is prioritizing youth engagement, homelessness prevention among children and seniors, and opioid response; she explained the Wheaton Fund is now managed by the Community Foundation and distributions vary year to year.
Jeannie Milstein, director of Human Services, told the Finance Committee the department frames its work around health, safety, learning and earning and highlighted several priorities: the Youth Engagement Partnership, a homeless youth working group (the department has identified about 350 children experiencing homelessness), expanded senior support at the senior center, and ongoing opioid response and reimbursement work.
On the Wheaton Fund, which supports senior programming, Milstein and finance staff explained the fund was transferred to the…
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