Health & Human Services

From the Maryland Center for Veterans' Education and Training to the Living Classrooms, Leadership Maryland explores the impact of budget cuts, welfare reform, urban blight and heroic efforts to improve the lives of youth, adults and the aged. Dealing with the underserved has been called "one of the state's greatest challenges."

In some places we see some levels of success in dealing with human care issues; we are confronted with our failures as well. The products of those failures are also humans, who need care - and beyond care, reform, to return again to a responsible position in our society, contributing to our society, contributing to our good rather than exhausting our resources. Many of these failures become part of the Criminal Justice system.