>>to see more caucus new jersey with steve adubato programs visit us online at www.steveadubato.org if you would like to express an opinion email us at info@caucusnj.org find us on facebook at facebook.com/steveadubatophd and follow us on twitter at @steveadubato >>beverly lynn is cief executive officer of programs for parents inc good to see you >>god to see you >>what exactly is programs for parents? >>we're a non profit agency located here in essex county and our responsibility is to help and assist parents with their early education needs. one, by accepting applications to determine f they're eligible for financial assistance and then secondly to provide parenting training and support and in addition to that we also provide training and professional development for early education professionals >>let's talk about children in terms of pre k, how great is the demand in terms of how many families are looking to get assistance to send their children to pre k? >>well steve we serve this year about 21,000 children >>21,000 children? >>children. we receive 40,000 applications >>wow >>but

state available at newsstands and by commerce magazine [music playing] [music playing] hi i'm steve adubato before i introduce our guests let me tell you some interesting statistics having to do with veterans and an important need that there is to take care of our veterans. there are over 23 million veterans in the united states with 2.5 million having just served since 2001 in addition between now and 2016 over 1. ... excuse me 1.2 million service members will be leaving the military returning to their homes 425 thousand of them in new jersey the question is what happens to their healthcare needs? who's providing for them the two guests we have in the studio right now are dealing with that question every day we are pleased to have major general maria falca-dodson vice president for strategic initiatives at md advantage and doctor al tallia professor and chair for the department of family medicine and community health at rutgers robert wood johnson medical school. thank you both for joining us. we appreciate this. um maria we started this conversation md advantage one of our long time partn

northjersey.com and by commerce magazine [music playing] [music playing] welcome to caucus new jersey i'm steve adubato you know haiti lacks access to clean water and its people continue to suffer. the country may be very far from new jersey but organizations here are working hard to make a difference. joining me here in the studio to discuss ways to improve the water situation in haiti we have doctor jay meegoda who is professor director of the geotechnical testing lab at njit that's the new jersey institute of technology bob iacullo executive vice president of united water. our good friend mike maron who got us into this in the first place and started teaching us about haiti president and ceo holy name medical center and finally mildred antenor who is a university professor and media commentator with our partners at wbgo and npr affiliate in new jersey and also happens to be a haitain-american i want to thank you for joining us. we're gonna talk to you about your experience your family knows haiti very well. but mike you did get us into this. you did start talking to us about haiti. talk to us about

newsstands and commerce magazine [music playing] [music playing] welcome to caucus new jersey i'm steve adubato far too many children enter school not prepared. clearly a strong foundation in early education plays a big role in success later in life. here to discuss the importance of early childhood education we have on our panel steven barnett director of the national institute for early education research at rutgers university kimberly baxter mclain president and ceo foundation for newark's future molly dunn executive director of preschool advantage and finally cecilia zalkind executive director of advocates for children of new jersey cecilia you were just telling us you've been with us many times over the years this is not your 30th anniversary at this great organization? >>[laughter] it is i started there while i was still in law school. >>well it is wonderful. by the way tell folks what that organization is and why it matters so much >>well advocates for children of new jersey is a state based child advocacy organization in newark and we look at many issues related to child well being incl

magazine new jersey business [music playing] [music playing] welcome to caucus new jersey i'm steve adubato recently new jersey had the honor of hosting the 2014 usa special olympics games 3,500 athletes competed in 16 sports with the support of thousands. joining me here in the studio to discuss the impact of the 2014 games on new jersey and the larger community we have barry ostrowski president and chief executive officer of barnabas health ralph larossa president and chief operating officer of pseg t.j. nelligan chairman and ceo of the 2014 special olympics usa game and finally nick miceli market president td bank i gotta tell you these games t.j. before we show some video and we talk about the impact of the games what were the odds against new jersey getting these usa games and describe why the usa games were so significant >>well the usa games are significant and eberybody counts nj out that's why we all got a bunch a of jersey guys here >>exactly >>to stick to together but >>what were the games? >>the games were so inspiring but it took so many people to put em on you know we changed