Segment 1: Newly-appointed secretary of troubled Kansas child welfare agency on transparency, missing foster kids, and reports of cover-ups and gag orders.
With reports of children sleeping in department offices, ignored child abuse, and missing foster children hanging over the Kansas Department for Children and Families, newly-appointed Secretary Gina Meier-Hummel has some battles ahead of her. Today, we explored what steps the agency needs to take to ensure the safety and well-being of the state's most vulnerable kids.
Segment 2: Training the human brain to break bad habits and addictions.
Why is it so difficult to untangle ourselves from habits that hurt us? Today, a mindfulness and addiction expert shared a few mental exercises that can help people curb bad behavior patterns.
- Dr. Judson Brewer, director of research, Center For Mindfulness, author of "The Craving Mind"
