 Hi, I'm Ted Dallas, Secretary for the Department of Human Services. In the first year of the Wolf Administration, we have already seen some significant progress in meeting our three main goals of, one, providing greater access to high quality services, two, serving more people in the community, and three, increasing employment opportunities for the people we serve. We started out the year by tackling issues at Childline. When I joined the department, we were processing child abuse clearances at about 26 days. After making some changes at Childline, I am proud to report we are turning child abuse clearances around in about four days, well below the 14 days required under law. Our next big step was when we fully expanded Medicaid. As a result, more than half a million Pennsylvanians, about 511,000 people, have access to health care coverage that never did before. That played a major role in reducing Pennsylvanians' uninsured rate from 14% down to 8%. That's almost a 50% reduction in just 12 months. We also began the process of implementing community health choices. Governor Wolf's plan to increase opportunities for older Pennsylvanians and individuals with physical disabilities that we serve to remain in their homes. When polled, 95% of people said they wanted to live in their communities, and community health choices will help hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians do just that. This January, we have also seen a 6.5% decline in the number of people receiving cash assistance, which is known as TANF. That's over 11,000 people who no longer rely on cash assistance from the state. During the same time period, we have seen a 4.5% increase in TANF recipients gaining employment. We are doing all this while we are being more efficient and customer focused. For example, in the first year of the Wolf administration, we have driven down the average wait time when you called the department from over 10 minutes in January to just 51 seconds in December. Another example is the accuracy with which we determine eligibility for food stamps. In just seven months, we reduced our error rate by 60% and had the highest accuracy rate in 20 years in Pennsylvania. In less than a year, we have accomplished a lot, but there's still much more work to do. I'd like to say thanks to Governor Wolf for the opportunity to serve, and a special thanks to all the DHS employees who did the work that made all of these accomplishments possible. Thank you for listening, and I hope you all have a happy and healthy new year.