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...(A) The department of children and youth shall prescribe an application form for use in making eligibility determinations for publicly funded child care. The form shall be as brief and simple as practicable. (B) In administering the process of applying for publicly funded child care, the county department of job and family services shall implement policies designed to ensure that the application process is as acce...

...ions of eligibility for publicly funded child care. Under those procedures, the eligibility determination for each applicant shall be made no later than thirty calendar days from the date the county department receives a completed application for publicly funded child care. Each applicant shall be notified promptly of the results of the eligibility determination. An applicant aggrieved by a decision or delay in makin...

...of the Revised Code for publicly funded child care is valid for one year. (B) The county department of job and family services shall adjust the appropriate level of a fee charged under division (B) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code if a caretaker parent reports changes in income, family size, or both.

...eloping and operating suitable licensed child care centers, type A family child care homes, or licensed type B family child care homes, especially in areas with high concentrations of recipients of public assistance, and for that purpose provide consultation to interested individuals and groups on request; (3) Inform clients of the availability of child care services. (B) A county department of job and family s...

...The licensee or administrator of a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home, an in-home aide providing child care services, the director or administrator of an approved child day camp, and a border state child care provider shall keep a record for each eligible child, to be made available to the county department of job and family services or the department of childr...

...lly in areas with the greatest need for child care; (2) Connect families and caretaker parents in need of child care with family day-care homes not meeting the license capacity specified on their licenses, as described in division (E) of section 5104.03 of the Revised Code. (B) The director may contract with one or more third-party entities to assist the director in performing the duties described in division (A)...

... (G) Procedures to deal with fraud and abuse committed by either recipients or providers of publicly funded child care; (H) Procedures for establishing a child care grant or loan program in accordance with the child care block grant act; (I) Standards and procedures for applicants to apply for grants and loans, and for the department to make grants and loans; (J) A definition of "person who stands in loco p...

...ria for eligibility for publicly funded child care, the director of children and youth may prescribe the amount, duration, and scope of benefits available as publicly funded child care.

...(A) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing a procedure for monitoring the expenditures for publicly funded child care to ensure that expenditures do not exceed the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. The department of children and youth, with the assistance of the office of budget and management, shall monitor...

... this chapter regarding publicly funded child care until the later of thirty days after the effective date of the rule or thirty days after the county department receives notice of the rule if such notification is required under this chapter.

...A child and the child's caretaker who are otherwise ineligible for publicly funded child care are eligible for homeless child care for the lesser of the following: (A) Not more than ninety days; (B) The period of time they reside in a facility providing emergency shelter for homeless families or the period of time in which the county department determines they are homeless.

...(A) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules pursuant to section 111.15 of the Revised Code establishing a payment procedure for publicly funded child care. (B) The director, by rule adopted in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code, may establish a methodology for allocating the state and federal funds appropriated for publicly funded child care.

...all funds received from any source for child care services into the public assistance fund established under section 5101.161 of the Revised Code.

... of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license or certificate issued pursuant to this chapter.

...The governor shall create the early childhood advisory council in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1) and shall appoint one of its members to serve as chairperson of the council. The council shall serve as the state advisory council on early childhood education and care, as described in 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1). In addition to the duties specified in 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1), the council shall promote family-centered pro...

...The department of children and youth shall license a preschool program pursuant to sections 3301.52 to 3301.59 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The department of children and youth shall develop a diagnostic assessment designed to measure each student's readiness for kindergarten. The kindergarten readiness assessment shall not include components to identify gifted students. Blank copies of the kindergarten readiness assessment shall be public records. (B) When the kindergarten readiness assessment has been completed, the department shall inform all s...

...red dollars multiplied by the number of children receiving child care at the child care center or type A family child care home that either exceeds the number of children to which a type B family day-care home may provide child care or, if the offender is a licensed type A family child care home that is operating as a child care center without being licensed as a center, exceeds the license capacity of the type A hom...

...A) As used in the Revised Code, "public children services agency" means an entity specified in section 5153.02 of the Revised Code that has assumed the powers and duties of the children services function prescribed by this chapter for a county. (B) As used in this chapter: (1) "Certified foster home" means a foster home, as defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, certified under section 5103.03 of the R...

...Each county shall have a public children services agency. Any of the following may be the public children services agency: (A) A county children services board; (B) A county department of job and family services; (C) A private or government entity designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code.

...If a county children services board is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners shall appoint five members of the county children services board and for good cause may remove any member so appointed. Each of these members shall be appointed for the term of four years, but the board shall stagger their terms so that the terms of not more than two of the required members of the ...

...A county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code shall elect one of its members as chairperson and another as secretary. The chairperson may appoint committees composed of board members and other persons interested in child care. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and the action of a majority of the members present shall constitute the action of the b...

...If a county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board may appoint an advisory committee on children services. If an entity specified in division (B) or (C) of section 5153.02 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners may appoint an advisory committee on children...

...The county children services board may enter into a written contract with the board's executive director specifying terms and conditions of the executive director's employment. The executive director shall not be in the classified civil service. The period of the contract shall not exceed three years. Such a contract shall in no way abridge the right of the county children services board to terminate the employment o...

...Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the "executive director," who shall not be in the classified civil service. The superintendent of the children's home, the county director of job and family services, or other individual may serve as the executive director. The agency shall, from time to time, inquire into community conditions affecting the welfare of children and stu...