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  Attendees 'build connected future' at annual conference

  September 21, 2023

  PCSAO’s annual conference wrapped up another successful event today that featured workshops, keynotes, awards and networking opportunities for Ohio’s public child protection community.

   

• Foster care crisis forcing kids to sleep in offices (Part 3)

  July 28, 2023

  Ohio is among nine states where child-welfare services are administered by counties and overseen by the state. Advocates say a statewide solution is needed and have asked lawmakers to create a task force to come up with recommendations and aggressively implement them.

   

• Foster care crisis forcing kids to sleep in offices (Part 2)

  July 28, 2023

  Last spring, a teen spent a month in Cleveland’s University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. The youth was ready to be discharged, but the mother, working with child welfare officials, was not able to find a treatment facility and refused to pick up the youth until she could secure a safe option.

   
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  Foster care crisis forcing hundreds of kids to sleep in offices as officials seek solutions

  July 28, 2023

  Twice in the last year, Zoey, a 16-year-old in foster care, had to spend the night in the Franklin County Children Services office.

   
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  Funding restoration critical for children services

  June 08, 2023

  A reduction in the key funding line item for child protective services in the most recent version of the state budget places the only state funding for county agencies in jeopardy.

   

• Senators asked to restore, protect funding in state budget

  May 25, 2023

  In testimony today before the Senate Finance Committee, PCSAO Executive Director Angela Sausser requested that children services investments be restored and that county funding be protected in the biennial budget, Sub. HB 33.

   
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  Prevention services program expands to 56 counties

  May 15, 2023

  Ohio START announced the expansion of its model to include Perry and Muskingum counties, marking the addition of a sixth cohort and bringing the total number of participating counties to 56.

   
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  PCSAO urges Senate to protect children services funding

  May 09, 2023

  PCSAO’s Executive Director, Angela Sausser, testified before the Senate Health Committee today on Sub. HB 33, emphasizing the need to maintain the proposed investment for public children services agencies in the State Child Protection Allocation (SCPA). Sausser highlighted the success of previous investments in 2019 and 2021, which helped improve the practice of county agencies, implement critical programs, and manage soaring placement costs.

   
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  PCSAO urges House to restore critical budget funds

  April 20, 2023

  PCSAO’s Executive Director, Angela Sausser, testified on Sub. HB 33 today before the House Finance Committee, expressing appreciation that the committee maintained the Administration’s proposed increase in the State Child Protection Allocation (SCPA) and funding for multi-system youth, along with concern that key programs would be affected by cuts made in the substitute bill.

   
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  PCSAO mourns passing of Gayle Channing Tenenbaum

  April 18, 2023

  The board, staff and membership of PCSAO are grieving the loss of Gayle Channing Tenenbaum, who passed away yesterday.