Patrick Morrisey: “We're using this as an additional step to fix a child…”

“Now we're aligning West Virginia with a number of the federal pieces out there, A Home for Every Child initiative. But more importantly, We're using this as an additional step to fix a child welfare system that quite frankly, has been broken for probably over 30 years. Very difficult. I can tell you that as someone who came in about 15 months ago. But in that time, we have made progress.” (08:36–08:46)

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