Marianne Williamson wants to create a new cabinet department focused on children: 'We need more than just educational funding'

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson isn't shy about wanting to revamp Washington.

One way she'd do is by creating an entirely new Cabinet-level department, the Department of Children and Youth, Williamson told CBS's Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan on Sunday. This new department would differ from the Department of Education in that it would provide a much more holistic approach toward providing the proper services for children, she said.

Williamson said that while she considers education "extremely important," many children are traumatized before they even start pre-school. As president, she said, she would want to address issues that "go beyond" what's already covered by Washington today, including PTSD and hunger.

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"We need more than just educational funding," Williams said. "We need wrap-around services, we need trauma-informed education, we need to deal with the nutrition of our children, the high poverty rates, the violence in our schools." Watch the segment below. Tim O'Donnell