House Interim Committee On Human Services

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• Organizational Meeting
  • Adoption of Committee Rules

• Informational Meeting
  • Invited testimony only
    
    
  • COVID-19 Pandemic: response, challenges, priorities, needs
    
    3:10-3:45
    Services for Senior Citizens
    Fariborz Pakseresht, Director, Department of Human Services (DHS)
    Fred Steele, Long-Term Care Ombudsman office
    Andrea Cooper, SEIU Local 503
    Irene Hunt, In-Home Care Worker, SEIU Local 503 member
    
    3:45-4:15
    Food Security
    Dan Haun, Director, Self Sufficiency Programs at DHS
    Susannah Morgan, CEO, Oregon Food Bank
    Annie Kirschner, Executive Director, Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon
    
    4:15-4:40
    Child Care
    Alyssa Chatterjee, Deputy Education Policy Advisor (Early Learning), Office of Governor Kate Brown
    Miriam Calderon, Early Learning System Director, Early Learning Division, Oregon Department of Education
    
    4:40-5:05
    Child Welfare
    Rebecca Jones Gaston, Director, Child Welfare Programs at DHS
    Dr. Reginald Richardson, Sr., Executive Director, Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission
    
    5:05-5:20
    Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
    Lilia Teninty, Director, Office of Developmental Disability Services at DHS
    
    5:20-5:40
    Services for youth in care, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and other vulnerable
    populations
    Doug Riggs, Alliance4Kids
    Kim Scott, Trillium Youth and Family Services
    Mercedes Elizaldre, Central City Concern
    Leslie Sutton, Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities
    An Do, Political Director, Planned Parenthood
    
    5:40-6:00
    Open Committee discussion regarding COVID-19
    
    

• • Please note change: time slots have been added.