MEDIA ADVISORY
State Rep. John T. Galloway, D-Bucks www.pahouse.com/Galloway State Rep. Tony Melio, D-Bucks www.pahouse.com/Melio State Rep. Steven J. Santarsiero, D-Bucks www.pahouse.com/santarsiero

MEDIA ADVISORY

Galloway, Melio, Santarsiero will host local public hearing on foster care Friday

HARRISBURG, March 26 – State Reps. John Galloway, Tony Melio and Steven Santarsiero, all D-Bucks, will co-host a public hearing of the House Children and Youth Committee tomorrow in Fairless Hills, Bucks County, to address concerns over the placement of foster children in Pennsylvania.

Details are as follows:

House Children and Youth Committee hearing on foster care

1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 27

Falls Township Municipal Building

188 Lincoln Highway

Fairless Hills

Scheduled to testify are:

· Diane Ellis-Marseglia, Bucks County commissioner

· Diane Capriglione, children’s advocate

· Lynne Moore, family preservation, Tabor Children’s Services

· Lisa Horne, guardian ad litem

· Shelly Yanoff, executive director, Public Citizens for Children and Youth

· Charles H. Martin, chairman, Bucks County commissioners 

· James F. Cawley, Bucks County commissioner

· Lynne Kallus-Rainey, county children and youth administrator

· Patricia Degan, kinship foster grandparent

· Estelle Richman, secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

Media coverage is invited.