ADVISORY - CRAWFORD COUNTY - Shapiro Administration to Continue Statewide Tour Highlighting Modernized Tool Keeping Older Adults Safe and Boosting Oversight, Accountability of[...]

July 23, 2026 - Meadville, PA

ADVISORY - CRAWFORD COUNTY - Shapiro Administration to Continue Statewide Tour Highlighting Modernized Tool Keeping Older Adults Safe and Boosting Oversight, Accountability of Local Aging Agencies

Pennsylvania Department of Aging Secretary Jason Kavulich will continue a statewide tour highlighting how the Department's new approach to reviewing the performance of older adult protective services is delivering better results in keeping older adults safe. This new, modern tool allows the Department to do away with a simple pass/fail scoring system for local aging agencies, and comprehensively ask "what does this local agency specifically need to improve?"

That tool, the Comprehensive Aging Performance Evaluation (CAPE), is also providing historic levels of transparency and accountability of the Area Agency on Aging (AAA) network that provides those services.

WHO:
Secretary of Aging Jason Kavulich
Krista Geer, Executive Director, Active Aging, Inc.
Eric Henry, Crawford County Commissioner
Becky Wilkinson, Protective Services Supervisor
Protective Services staff
Caregiver Support Program, OPTIONS care managers

WHEN:
THURSDAY, July 23, 2026, at 10:00 A.M.

WHERE:
Active Aging, Inc.
1034 Park Avenue
Meadville, PA 16335

MEDIA RSVP:
Media interested in covering the event should RSVP via email to [email protected] and share the names, titles and phone numbers of each member of their team.

NOTE:
The event will involve remarks from attendees and a press availability prior to a larger group roundtable discussion. Press are invited to stay for and cover the entirety of the event.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Karen Gray, [email protected]

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