Secretary Marketa Walters of the Department of Children and Family Services, this week on Bayou to Beltway, 12:30 Wednesday and 5:30 Saturday.
This week Bayou to Beltway talks Secretary Marketa Walters, who leads the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. Our conversation focused on the many crucial activities that DCF pursues, including child abuse and neglect, SNAP benefits which puts $2.32 billion into the Louisiana economy, and emergency preparedness (among others). We discuss how chronic underfunding from the state is affecting women and children in need of services and the impact it has on their social and economic well-being.
Listen to this engaging interview with Secretary Marketa Walters, leader of the Louisiana Department of Children and Families on Bayou to Beltway KRVS 88.7 at 12:30 Wednesday and 5:30 Saturdays. Also available on podcast at KRVS.org (Thursday)
Each week Dr. Pearson Cross interviews Acadiana's most important officials and news-makers.