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

July 15, 2026 - Allentown, PA

ADVISORY - LEHIGH COUNTY - Shapiro Administration to Launch 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 kick off 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
JR Reed, Executive Director, Lehigh County Office of Aging and Adult Services
Josh Siegel, Lehigh County Executive
Donna Saeger-Peters, Older Adult Protective Services Supervisor
Tiffany Winkle, Deputy Director, Lehigh County Office of Aging and Adult Services
Joshua Bridges, Director, Department of Human Services

WHEN:
WEDNESDAY, July 15, 2026, at 10:00 A.M.

WHERE:
Lehigh County Government Center, Public Hearing Room
17 South Seventh Street
Allentown, PA 18101

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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