Ohio Revised Code Search

...(A) The department of children and youth shall establish and maintain a uniform statewide automated child welfare information system in accordance with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 674(a)(3)(C) and related federal regulations and guidelines. The information system shall contain records regarding any of the following: (1) Investigations of children and families, and children's care in out-of-home care, in accordan...

...Except as provided in section 5180.402 of the Revised Code, information contained in or obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code is confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to section 149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised Code.

... and family services, the department of children and youth, a public children services agency, a title IV-E agency, a prosecuting attorney, a private child placing agency, and a private noncustodial agency may access or enter the information when either of the following is the case: (a) The access or entry is directly connected with assessment, investigation, or services regarding a child or family; (b) The acc...

...No person shall access or use information contained in the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code other than in accordance with section 5180.402 of the Revised Code or rules authorized by that section. No person shall disclose information obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code in a manner not specifie...

...ined in the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system established in section 5180.40 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding a private child placing agency's or private noncustodial agency's access, data entry, and use of information in the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system. ...

...(A) A public children services employee who is entering a report of an investigation of child abuse in the statewide automated child welfare information system, as required by section 5180.40 of the Revised Code, shall make a notation on each case of child abuse that indicates whether the child abuse arose from an act that caused the child to suffer from, or resulted in the child suffering from, shaken baby syndrome....

...If a person requests the department of children and youth to conduct a search of whether that person's name has been placed or remains in the statewide automated child welfare information system as an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect and a search reveals that a "substantiated" disposition exists, the department shall send a letter to the person who requested the search indicating a "match."

...The department of children and youth shall work with stakeholders to establish an expungement policy regarding dispositions of child abuse or neglect in Ohio's central registry on child abuse and neglect by March 1, 2024.

... section 5180.411 of the Revised Code, "children services" means services provided to children pursuant to Chapter 5153. of the Revised Code. (B) Within available funds, the department of children and youth shall distribute funds to the counties within thirty days after the beginning of each calendar quarter for a part of the counties' costs for children services. Funds provided to the county under this section...

...Each county shall deposit all funds its public children services agency receives from appropriations made by the board of county commissioners or any other source for the purpose of providing children services into a special fund in the county treasury known as the children services fund. A county shall use money in the fund only for the purposes of meeting the expenses of providing children services.

... child's food, clothing, shelter, daily supervision, and school supplies; (b) The child's personal incidentals; (c) Reasonable travel to the child's home for visitation. (2) In addition to payments made under division (C)(1) of this section, the county may, on behalf of each child eligible for foster care maintenance payments under Title IV-E, make payments to cover the cost of providing the following: (a...

...(A) The department of children and youth may apply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a waiver of requirements established under Title IV-E, or regulations adopted thereunder, to conduct a demonstration project expanding eligibility for and services provided under Title IV-E. The department may enter into agreements with the secretary necessary to implement the demonstration project, incl...

...ncial requirements applicable to public children services agencies, private child placing agencies, private noncustodial agencies, and government entities that provide Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children, the department of children and youth may establish both of the following: (1) A single form for the agencies or entities to report costs reimbursable under Title IV-E and costs reimbursable und...

...e discretion of the department, for the failure of a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children to comply with procedures the department establishes to ensure fiscal accountability: (A) For initial failure, the department and the agency or entity involved shall jointly develop ...

...If a public children services agency fails to comply with the fiscal accountability procedures established by the department of children and youth, the department shall notify the board of county commissioners of the county served by the agency. If a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency fails to comply with the fiscal accountability procedures, the department shall notify the executive director...

...If the department of children and youth sanctions a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency, it shall take every possible precaution to ensure that any foster children that have been placed by the agency under sanction are not unnecessarily removed from the certified foster homes in which they reside.

...Money from the children services fund shall not be used to provide a personal loan to any individual.

... of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth may certify a claim to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code for the attorney general to take action under that section against a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children if all of the following a...

...r mental condition, which incapacity is supported by regularly updated information in the person's case record or plan. (E) Any emancipated young adult described in division (A)(1) of this section who is directly receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, or any relative described in division (C)(1) of this section who is receiving kinship guardianship assistance, or...

...pation agreement with the department of children and youth, or its representative, for the emancipated young adult's care and placement. The agreement shall stay in effect until one of the following occurs: (1) The emancipated young adult enrolled in the program notifies the department, or its representative, that they want to terminate the agreement. (2) The emancipated young adult becomes ineligible for the p...

...s adopted thereunder, the department of children and youth shall pay the full nonfederal share of payments made pursuant to section 5180.428 of the Revised Code. No public children services agency shall be responsible for the cost of any payments made pursuant to section 5180.428 of the Revised Code.

...raining necessary for case managers and supervisors who care for emancipated young adults described in division (A)(1) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code who are receiving foster care payments, or on whose behalf such foster care payments are received, under section 5180.428 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of children and youth shall create an advisory council to evaluate and make recommendations for ...

...The provisions of divisions (A) and (D) to (G) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code shall not apply if the person is eligible for temporary or permanent custody until age twenty-one pursuant to a dispositional order under sections 2151.353, 2151.414, and 2151.415 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The director of children and youth shall implement 42 U.S.C. 673(d) to provide kinship guardianship assistance under Title IV-E on behalf of a child to a relative who meets the following requirements: (1) The relative has cared for the eligible child pursuant to division (B) of this section as a foster caregiver as defined by section 5103.02 of the Revised Code for at least six consecutive months. (2) Both ...

...The department of children and youth shall adopt rules necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 5180.42, 5180.428, and 5180.4213 of the Revised Code, and 42 U.S.C. 673(d) of the "Social Security Act," including rules that do all of the following: (A) Allow a kinship guardianship young adult described in division (C) of section 5180.428 of the Revised Code on whose behalf kinship guardianship assistance is r...