“The General
Assembly supports and encourages the collaborative, reciprocal ventures
undertaken by the Agency of Human Services, the Department of
Education, the University of Vermont and their community partners in
order to improve the lifelong well-being of all Vermonters.
It creates a
research partnership among the parties to study and improve the
effectiveness of this collaborative work and gives permission for this
research to be cooperatively funded by the partners.”
—excerpted
from Act 147, Sec. 100a., passed in 1998
