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...)(1) The executive director of a public children services agency shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has applied to the agency for employment as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child. If the applicant does not present proof that the applicant has been a resident of ...

...(A) A public children services agency may hire as a caseworker only the following: (1) A person who has a bachelor's degree in human services-related studies; (2) A person who has a bachelor's degree in any field and has been employed for at least two years in a human services-related occupation; (3) A person who has an associate's degree in human services-related studies; (4) A person who has completed at le...

...sideration for a position with a public children services agency to work, with or without monetary gain or compensation, as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child; (3) "Volunteer applicant" means a person who is under consideration for a position with a public children services agency to perform services within the agency voluntarily, without monetary gain or compensation, as a person re...

...All employees of the public children services agency shall be in the classified civil service. The agency may establish compensation rates and vacation benefits for any of its employees. Insofar as practicable, all employees holding positions in the classified service, whose duties are transferred by this section to the agency, shall be continued, with like status, by the appointing authority before any other appoint...

... of county commissioners and the county children services board may agree to permit any employee of the department of children and youth also to perform duties for the county children services board, or to permit any employee of the county children services board also to perform duties for the department of children and youth. (B) An agreement made under division (A) of this section may require the board of county...

...at the executive director of the public children services agency may waive the training requirement for a school of social work graduate who participated in the university partnership program described in division (E) of section 5101.141 of the Revised Code and as provided in section 5153.124 of the Revised Code. The training shall consist of courses in all of the following: (A) Recognizing, accepting reports of, ...

...include courses in screening reports of child abuse, neglect, or dependency. After a PCSA caseworker supervisor's first year of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor, the supervisor annually shall complete thirty hours of training in areas relevant to the supervisor's assigned duties. During the first two years of continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor, each PCSA caseworker supervisor s...

...(A)(1) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the training requirements of sections 5153.122 and 5153.123 of the Revised Code. (2) Not later than nine months after September 30, 2021, the director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish the circumstances under which an executive director of a public children services agency may waiv...

...Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall work with each PCSA caseworker the supervisor supervises to determine the caseworker's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the caseworker's compliance with, the training requirements of section 5153.122 of the Revised Code. Once every two years, each PCSA caseworker and the caseworker's supervisor shall jointly complete the caseworker's individual training needs assess...

...The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall work with each PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency to determine the supervisor's training needs in accordance with, and ensure the supervisor's compliance with, the training requirements of section 5153.123 of the Revised Code. Once every two years, each PCSA caseworker supervisor and th...

...The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall collect and maintain the data from individual training needs assessments completed under sections 5153.125 and 5153.126 of the Revised Code for each PCSA caseworker and PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency. The executive director or designated person shall compile and forward the data col...

...y in such sum as is fixed by the public children services agency, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of official duties and the full and faithful accounting of all funds and properties of the agency or county coming into the executive director's hands. Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon such duties, the executive director shall give a...

...A public children services agency may procure a policy or policies of insurance insuring employees of the agency, volunteers, foster caregivers associated with the agency, and, if a county children services board is the public children services agency, board members against liability arising from the performance of their official duties.

...d submit an annual report to the public children services agency at the end of each calendar year and shall file copies of such report with the department of children and youth, the board of county commissioners, and the juvenile court. The executive director shall submit the inspection reports required under section 5153.16 of the Revised Code and such other reports as are required by law, by the rules of the direct...

...vised Code, with respect to the care of children, needing or likely to need public care or services, shall be vested in a single agency of county government, namely, a county department of job and family services or a county children services board.

...6 of the Revised Code, and on behalf of children in the county whom the public children services agency considers to be in need of public care or protective services, the public children services agency shall do all of the following: (1) Make an investigation concerning any child alleged to be an abused, neglected, or dependent child; (2) Enter into agreements with the parent, guardian, or other person having l...

...ative" means a nonrelative adult whom a child or the current custodial caretaker of a child identifies as having a familiar and longstanding relationship or bond with the child or the child's family that will ensure the child's social and cultural ties. (B) Care provided by the public children services agency under division (A)(5) of section 5153.16 of the Revised Code shall be provided by the agency, by its own m...

...ation, acquisition, or maintenance of a children's home, training school, or other institution for the care of children maintained by a municipal corporation or other political subdivision, the public children services agency may acquire, operate, and maintain such an institution. The agency may enter into an agreement with a municipal corporation, a board of education, and the board of county commissioners, or with ...

...of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Before a child's adoption is finalized, a public children services agency may enter into an agreement with the child's adoptive parent under which the agency, to the extent state funds are available, may make state adoption maintenance subsidy payments as needed on behalf of the child when all of the following apply: (a) The child is a child with special needs. (b) The child was p...

...could lead, or has led, to removal of a child from the family's home pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, the public children services agency shall determine whether the child could remain safely with, or be safely returned to, the family if the emergency were alleviated by providing benefits and services under the prevention, retention, and contingency program established under Chapter 5108. of the Revise...

...ed by the Revised Code, the director of children and youth may adopt rules governing public children services agencies' performance of their family services duties, including the family services duties that public children services agencies have under sections 5153.16 to 5153.19 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Each public children services agency shall prepare and keep written records of all of the following: (1) Investigations of families, children, and foster homes; (2) The care, training, and treatment afforded to children; (3) Such other records as are required by the department of children and youth. (B) Records under division (A) of this section shall be confidential, but, except as provided by divisi...

...(A) On receipt by a public children services agency of a request for the release of information about a child under eighteen years of age who was a resident of the county served by the agency at the time of death and whose death may have been caused by abuse, neglect, or other criminal conduct, the director of the agency immediately shall confer with the prosecuting attorney of that county. After the executive direct...

...owing information concerning a deceased child in accordance with section 5153.171 of the Revised Code: (1) The child's name; (2) A summary report of the chronology of abuse or neglect reports made pursuant to section 2151.421 of the Revised Code of which the child is the subject and the final disposition of the investigations of the reports or, if investigations have not been completed, the status of any investigat...

... pleas court of the county the deceased child resided in at the time of death determines, on motion of the public children services agency, that disclosing the information would not be in the best interest of a sibling of the deceased child or another child residing in the household the child resided in at the time of death.