Governor Wolf issued the following statement in support of the House passage of a package of legislative proposals pertaining to grandparents raising grandchildren, including House bills 2133 and 1539, and House Resolution 390.
Wolf Administration officials recently concluded a series of regional summits to address warm hand-offs for opioid overdose survivors.
Governor Wolf today threw his support behind bipartisan state and federal proposals to help “grandfamilies” and aid grandparents who have assumed sole care-giving responsibilities for their grandchildren, especially those affected by the opioid epidemic, by ensuring they have access to all the services possible to help them with their duties as caregivers and guardians.
Governor Wolf today announced the renewal of his 90-day opioid disaster declaration, which was introduced in January and set to expire on April 10.
Governor Wolf’s administration continued its fight against the opioid epidemic by unveiling a unique partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and the Aetna Foundation to build on the Opioid Data Dashboard, incorporating data and public health modeling.
