GOVERNOR'S COUNCIL ON
ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY

Chairperson: James J. Traglia

Barbara L. Bagli; Howard A. Denis; Marilyn
Goldwater; David R. Pile; Richard Rowe;
Margaret E. Shultz; Rosalie F. Streett; Althea J.
Truitt, D.S.W.; Vivian I. Washington; Doris W.
Welcher; Kathleen Wise.

Ex officio: Ruth Massinga, Secretary of Human
Resources; Adele Wilzack, Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene; J. Randall Evans, Secretary
of Economic and Employment Development; H.
Louis Stettler III, Secretary of Budget and Fiscal
Planning; David W. Hornbeck, State
Superintendent of Schools; Wendy R. Sherman,
Director, Office for Children and Youth.

c/o Social Services Administration
300 W. Preston St.
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 576-5200

The Governor's Council on Adolescent Preg-
nancy was established in 1986 (Chapter 121, Acts
of 1986). It is an independent agency located in
the Department of Human Resources for budget-
ary and administrative purposes only.

The Council works to reduce unplanned adoles-
cent pregnancies in Maryland. To ensure the de-
velopment of a coordinated and comprehensive
approach to social, educational, economic, health
and legal problems of adolescent pregnancy and
parenthood, the Council is to prepare a statewide
plan for reducing adolescent pregnancy and im-
proving services to at-risk, pregnant and parenting
teenagers. The plan will include estimates of pub-
lic and private funding needs.

The Council promotes interdepartmental as well
as joint public and private coordination of policies

and programs. In addition, the Council advises lo-
cal agencies and makes recommendations to the
Governor on community incentive grants con-
cerning adolescent pregnancy.

The Council consists of eighteen members.
These include a member of the Senate; a member
of the House of Delegates; three persons with ex-
tensive programmatic or academic experience
with pregnant or parenting adolescents and their
families; five representatives of community, parent
or religious groups; two representatives of local
governments that have high rates of teenage preg-
nancy; and six ex officio members. Appointed
members serve three-year terms.

Authorization for the Council continues until
July 1, 1990 (Code Family Law Article, sees.
15-101 through 15-301).

THE OFFICE ON AGING

Rosalie S. Abrams, Director on Aging
Richard F. Kirchner, Deputy Director

301 W. Preston St., Room 1004
Baltimore 21201 Telephone: 225-1100
TTY for Deaf: 333-7555

The Office on Aging was established in 1975 as
an independent agency to administer, consolidate,
and coordinate statewide programs and activities
to meet the needs of older Marylanders (Chapter
261, Acts of 1975). Its predecessor agency, the
State Coordinating Commission on the Problems
of the Aging, was created in 1959 (Chapter 1,
Acts of 1959) and renamed in 1971 as the Com-
mission on the Aging (Chapter 595, Acts of
1971). In 1974 the Governor established the Gov-
ernor's Coordinating Office on Problems of the
Aging. The creation of the Office on Aging as a
cabinet-level agency in 1975 resulted in the merg-
er of the Commission on the Aging staff with the