WASHINGTON TO HOST HEARING ON STATE’S FOSTER CARE SYSTEM 

WHO:               State Sen. LeAnna Washington (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) 

WHAT:             Public hearing on the state’s foster care system 

WHEN:             Thursday, July 17
                        10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

WHERE:           Room 109 of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School of Communications, 3260 Walnut St., Philadelphia.                       

DETAILS:         Sen. Washington, along with her colleagues in the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, will host a public hearing on improving the state’s foster care system. The hearing will focus on foster care issues ranging from criteria for placement, foster parent eligibility, agency accountability and seeking ways to prevent problems that ensue when kids “age out” of the system. The committee will hear from several speakers, including Anna Marie Ambrose, the new commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Human Services.