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FOX44 reported on Tuesday night about a bill being debated at the State House that would allow Vermont Parole and Probation Officers to carry a firearm, only after completing extensive training and being certified as a law enforcement officer.

VSEA Executive Director Steve Howard explained VSEA’s support for the bill, reminding how Vermont social workers had been sounding the alarm for years about how they sometimes fear for their personal safety when they are in the field, checking on the well being of a child or children whose parents, or parent, is known to be very dangerous.

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Every year, the VSEA Awards & Scholarship Committee solicits scholarship applications from VSEA members and their spouses, dependents and domestic partners. The 2017 scholarship applications are now available online, and VSEA students who are seeking financial assistance this year in the pursuit of post-secondary educational goals can download one here.

Seven Years Later, The Issues and Concerns Of 2010 Remain Largely Unchanged    

Here are some excerpts from a 2010 VSEA WIA post, titled "Vermont Association For Mental Health Publicly Supports VSEA Plan To Build New State Hospital In Central Vermont."    

"VSEA’s DOC members are telling the union they are concerned the State is adopting an unwritten policy [in 2010] to just warehouse certain mentally ill Vermont offenders in the State’s prison system, where they are being “stabilized but not treated.”

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