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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Adult-supervised living arrangement" means a family setting approved, licensed, or certified by the department of job and family services, the department of mental health and addiction services, the department of developmental disabilities, the department of youth services, a public children services agency, a private child placing agency, or a private noncustodial agency that is ...

...(A) As used in this section, "transitional child care" means publicly funded child care provided under division (A)(3) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section: (1) Each member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first is ineligible to participate in the program for six payment months if a county department of job and family services determines...

...(A) As used in this section and in sections 5107.281 to 5107.287 of the Revised Code: (1) "Cash assistance payment" means the monthly amount an assistance group is eligible to receive under Ohio works first. (2) "Parent" means the parent, guardian, custodian, or specified relative with charge or care of a learnfare participant. (3) "Participating student" means a participant of Ohio works first who is subject to t...

...A participant of Ohio works first who is enrolled in a school district in a county that is participating in the learnfare program and is not younger than age six but not older than age nineteen shall participate in the learnfare program unless one of the following is the case: (A) The participant is not yet eligible for enrollment in first grade; (B) The participant is subject to the LEAP program; (C) The pa...

...The first time during a school year that a participating student fails to comply with the learnfare program's school attendance requirement, the county department of job and family services shall send the parent a notice warning that, if the student fails a second or subsequent time in the school year to comply with the school attendance requirement, the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the second month...

...The county department of job and family services may provide an incentive established by the county department to the participating student or student's assistance group, whichever is appropriate, if the parent or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student, consents to the release of the student's school attendance records and the student complies with the learnfare school attendance requiremen...

...The county department of job and family services shall require the parent of each participating student, or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student to consent to release of the student's school attendance records. If the parent or participating student refuses to consent, the county department shall reduce the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the month immediately following the...

...Notwithstanding a reduction in a cash assistance payment under section 5107.282 or 5107.284 of the Revised Code, all members of the assistance group who are otherwise eligible to participate in Ohio works first shall continue to be considered participants of the program.

...Communications between the school district and the county department of job and family services concerning a participating student's attendance shall be made only through the attendance officers and assistants appointed under section 3321.14 or 3321.15 of the Revised Code.

...The county department of job and family services shall establish policies defining "good cause for being absent from school" and specifying what constitutes a day of attendance for purposes of the learnfare program's school attendance requirement. Not later than the fifteenth day of each month of a school year or another time agreed to by the county department of job and family services and department of education...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Equivalent of a high school diploma" and "good cause" have the meanings established in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code. (2) "Participating teen" means an individual to whom all of the following apply: (a) The individual is a participant of Ohio works first; (b) The individual is under age eighteen or is age eighteen and in school and is a natural o...

...For the purpose of encouraging individuals who have successfully completed the requirements of the LEAP program to enroll in post-secondary education, the director of job and family services may provide an award to such individuals who enroll in post-secondary education. If provided, the award shall be provided in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code.

...An individual is ineligible for assistance under Ohio works first if either of the following apply: (A) The individual is a fugitive felon as defined in section 5101.26 of the Revised Code; (B) The individual is violating a condition of probation, a community control sanction, parole, or a post-release control sanction imposed under federal or state law.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, an individual who resides in a county home, city infirmary, jail, or other public institution is not eligible to participate in Ohio works first. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to a minor child residing with the minor child's mother who participates in a prison nursery program established under section 5120.65 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternative work activity" means an activity designed to promote self sufficiency and personal responsibility established by a county department of job and family services under section 5107.64 of the Revised Code. (B) "Developmental activity" means an activity designed to promote self sufficiency and personal responsibility established by a count...

...As soon as possible after an assistance group submits an application to participate in Ohio works first, the county department of job and family services that receives the application shall schedule and conduct an appraisal of each member of the assistance group who is a minor head of household or adult, other than a minor head of household participating in the LEAP program. The appraisal may include an evaluati...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, county departments of job and family services shall assign each minor head of household and adult participating in Ohio works first, other than a minor head of household participating in the LEAP program, to one or more work activities and developmental activities. If a county department assigns a minor head of household or adult to the work activity e...

...(A) After a minor head of household or adult is assigned to a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity under section 5107.42 of the Revised Code, a county department of job and family services shall place the minor head of household or adult in the assigned activity as soon as the activity becomes available. (B)(1) Except as provided in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Co...

...County departments of job and family services, on a statewide average basis, shall exceed the federal minimum work activity participation rates established by section 407(a) of Title IV-A, 42 U.S.C.A. 607(a), by not less than five percentage points.

...There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the job search and readiness program under which applicants for and participants of Ohio works first are trained in strategies and skills in obtaining employment and engage in self-directed, job search activities. County departments of job and family services shall develop and administer the program and may utilize the services of private or gov...

...(A) There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the subsidized employment program, under which private and government employers receive payments from appropriations to the department of job and family services for a portion of the costs of salaries, wages, and benefits those employers pay to or on behalf of employees who are participants of the subsidized employment program at the time of...

...(A) There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the work experience program. A participant of Ohio works first placed in the program shall receive work experience from private and government entities. Participants of Ohio works first assigned to the work experience program are not employees of the department of job and family services or a county department of job and family services. T...

...participants volunteering or working in schools. A participant volunteering or working as a classroom aide under this section shall not be considered an employee of a political subdivision for purposes of Chapter 2744. of the Revised Code and is not entitled to any immunity or defense available under that chapter, the common law of this state, or section 9.86 of the Revised Code. An assignment under this section ...

... the state board of career colleges and schools under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code; a private institution exempt from regulation under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code as prescribed in section 3333.046 of the Revised Code; or a school that has entered into a contract with the county department of job and family services. The participant shall make reasonable efforts, as determined by the county department, to o...

...In accordance with Title IV-A, federal regulations, state law, the Title IV-A state plan prepared under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, and amendments to the plan, county departments of job and family services shall establish and administer the following work activities, in addition to the work activities established under sections 5107.50, 5107.52, 5107.54, and 5107.58 of the Revised Code, for minor heads of ho...