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Governor’s Weekly Message Transcript: Increasing Access to Healthcare to Expand Opportunity for All Delawareans

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | News | Date Posted: Friday, February 26, 2016

Expanding opportunity means ensuring that all Delawareans can maximize control over their own destinies, and over the destinies of their families. To do so, we must address our state’s high-rate of unplanned pregnancies. When people become parents accidentally, we know the future for them and their children may be diminished. Mothers and fathers drop out of school and leave the workforce and too often, their children have fewer opportunities.



Governor’s Weekly Message: Increasing Access to Healthcare to Expand Opportunity for Delawareans

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | Kent County | New Castle County | News | Sussex County | Date Posted: Friday, February 26, 2016

Wilmington, DE – In his weekly message, Governor Markell highlights an initiative announced during his State of the State address to increase access to high-quality reproductive healthcare for women in an effort to improve opportunities for women and children.



Upstream USA and Governor Markell Announce Private Funding to Improve Women’s Health through Contraceptive Access

Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | News | Office of the Governor | Date Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Visiting with employees of the Henrietta Johnson Health Clinic today, Governor Jack Markell and Upstream USA announced private funding of more than $10 million to Delaware CAN (Contraceptive Access Now), an initiative aimed at improving women’s health and birth outcomes by ensuring that all women, regardless of insurance status or where they get their healthcare, will have same-day access to the full range of contraceptive methods at low or no cost.



Governor’s Weekly Message: Improving Our Criminal Justice System to Create New Opportunities

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | Kent County | New Castle County | Sussex County | Date Posted: Friday, February 19, 2016

Wilmington, DE – In his weekly message, Governor Markell highlighted the commitment Delaware has made to investing in alternatives to incarceration.



Governor’s Weekly Message Transcript: Improving Our Criminal Justice System to Create New Opportunities

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | News | Date Posted: Friday, February 19, 2016

One of the ways we have worked to improve public safety and create opportunity for all Delawareans is through a smarter criminal justice system – a system that reserves limited prison space for violent criminals and emphasizes treatment and community supervision for low-level offenders whose needs outweigh their risks to the community. A significant number of the individuals who enter our justice system battle addiction and mental illness, and experience shows us that these are factors that drive criminal behavior. In fact, fully half of the inmates in Delaware’s prisons are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Adopting reforms that include improved efforts to identify and treat them can lower our prison population, keep families intact, and give more offenders the opportunity to be productive citizens.






  Category: Office of the Governor

Governor’s Weekly Message Transcript: Increasing Access to Healthcare to Expand Opportunity for All Delawareans

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | News | Date Posted: Friday, February 26, 2016

Expanding opportunity means ensuring that all Delawareans can maximize control over their own destinies, and over the destinies of their families. To do so, we must address our state’s high-rate of unplanned pregnancies. When people become parents accidentally, we know the future for them and their children may be diminished. Mothers and fathers drop out of school and leave the workforce and too often, their children have fewer opportunities.



Governor’s Weekly Message: Increasing Access to Healthcare to Expand Opportunity for Delawareans

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | Kent County | New Castle County | News | Sussex County | Date Posted: Friday, February 26, 2016

Wilmington, DE – In his weekly message, Governor Markell highlights an initiative announced during his State of the State address to increase access to high-quality reproductive healthcare for women in an effort to improve opportunities for women and children.



Upstream USA and Governor Markell Announce Private Funding to Improve Women’s Health through Contraceptive Access

Delaware Health and Social Services | Division of Public Health | Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | News | Office of the Governor | Date Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Visiting with employees of the Henrietta Johnson Health Clinic today, Governor Jack Markell and Upstream USA announced private funding of more than $10 million to Delaware CAN (Contraceptive Access Now), an initiative aimed at improving women’s health and birth outcomes by ensuring that all women, regardless of insurance status or where they get their healthcare, will have same-day access to the full range of contraceptive methods at low or no cost.



Governor’s Weekly Message: Improving Our Criminal Justice System to Create New Opportunities

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | Kent County | New Castle County | Sussex County | Date Posted: Friday, February 19, 2016

Wilmington, DE – In his weekly message, Governor Markell highlighted the commitment Delaware has made to investing in alternatives to incarceration.



Governor’s Weekly Message Transcript: Improving Our Criminal Justice System to Create New Opportunities

Former Governor Jack Markell (2009-2017) | News | Date Posted: Friday, February 19, 2016

One of the ways we have worked to improve public safety and create opportunity for all Delawareans is through a smarter criminal justice system – a system that reserves limited prison space for violent criminals and emphasizes treatment and community supervision for low-level offenders whose needs outweigh their risks to the community. A significant number of the individuals who enter our justice system battle addiction and mental illness, and experience shows us that these are factors that drive criminal behavior. In fact, fully half of the inmates in Delaware’s prisons are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Adopting reforms that include improved efforts to identify and treat them can lower our prison population, keep families intact, and give more offenders the opportunity to be productive citizens.