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...(A)(1) If, after a child's adoption is finalized, the department of children and youth considers the child to be in need of public care or protective services, the department may, to the extent state funds are available for this purpose, enter into an agreement with the child's adoptive parent under which the department may make post adoption special services subsidy payments on behalf of the child as needed when bot...

...ithin available funds the department of children and youth may reimburse counties in accordance with this section for a portion of the salaries paid to child welfare workers employed under section 5153.12 of the Revised Code. No county with a population of eighty thousand or less, according to the latest census accepted by the department as official, shall be entitled to reimbursement on the salaries of more than two...

...54 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adopted child" means a person who is less than eighteen years of age when the person becomes subject to a final order of adoption, an interlocutory order of adoption, or when the adoption is recognized by this state under section 3107.18 of the Revised Code. (B) "Adoption" includes an adoption arranged by an attorney, a public children services agency, private child placing agency, ...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall establish and administer the Ohio adoption grant program in accordance with sections 5180.45 to 5180.454 of the Revised Code. (B) The director shall provide either of the following one-time payments for an adopted child to the child's adoptive parent if the requirements of division (A) of section 5180.452 of the Revised Code, but not division (B) of that section, are sa...

... adoption grant program for the adopted child for whom the parent is seeking payment. (2) The adoptive parent does not also currently claim an adoption tax credit pursuant to former section 5747.37 of the Revised Code for the adopted child for whom the parent is seeking payment. (3) The adoptive parent applies for the grant not later than one year after the final adoption order, interlocutory order of adoption, o...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules to administer and implement the Ohio adoption grant program. The director, in consultation with the tax commissioner, shall also adopt rules authorizing the department to withhold and remit to the Internal Revenue Service federal income tax from grant payments under division (B) of section 5180.451 of the Revised Code, provided such withholding is authorized un...

... document provided to the department of children and youth under division (C) of section 5180.453 of the Revised Code remains: (A) A public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code if it was a public record under that section before being provided to the department; (B) Confidential if it was confidential under any state or federal law before being provided to the department.

...ars of age or older and is caring for a child in place of the child's parents: (A) The following individuals related by blood or adoption to the child: (1) Grandparents, including grandparents with the prefix "great," "great-great," or "great-great-great"; (2) Siblings; (3) Aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces, including such relatives with the prefix "great," "great-great," "grand," or "great-grand"; (4...

...The department of children and youth shall establish a statewide kinship care navigator program to assist kinship caregivers who are seeking information regarding, or assistance obtaining, services and benefits available at the state and local level that address the needs of those caregivers residing in each county. The program shall provide to kinship caregivers information and referral services and assistance obtai...

...The director of children and youth shall divide the state into not less than five and not greater than twelve regions, for the kinship care navigator program under section 5180.51 of the Revised Code. The director shall take the following into consideration when establishing the regions: (A) The population size; (B) The estimated number of kinship caregivers; (C) The expertise of kinship navigators; (D) A...

...The program in each kinship care navigator region established under section 5180.511 of the Revised Code shall provide information and referral services and assistance in obtaining support services for kinship caregivers within its region.

...The department of children and youth shall adopt rules to implement the kinship care navigator program. The rules shall be adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, except that rules governing fiscal and administrative matters related to implementation of the program are internal management rules and shall be adopted under section 111.15 of the Revised Code.

...or that purpose. (2) The director of children and youth shall take any action necessary to obtain funds available for the kinship care navigator program under Title IV-E of the "Social Security Act," 42 U.S.C. 670, as amended. (B) The department shall pay the full nonfederal share for the kinship care navigator program. No county department of job and family services or public children services agency shall be ...

...(1) "Custodian," "guardian," and "minor child" have the same meanings as in section 5107.02 of the Revised Code. (2) "Federal poverty guidelines" has the same meaning as in section 5101.46 of the Revised Code. (3) "Kinship caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5180.50 of the Revised Code. (B) Subject to division (E) of section 5101.801 of the Revised Code, there is hereby created the kinship permanen...

...As used in sections 5180.531 to 5180.536 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cost-of-living adjustment" has the same meaning as in section 5107.04 of the Revised Code. (B) "Kinship caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5180.50 of the Revised Code.

...ship support program. The department of children and youth shall coordinate and administer the program to the extent funds are appropriated and allocated for this purpose.

...ivers who: (A) Receive placement of a child who is in the temporary or permanent custody of a public children services agency or under the Title IV-E agency with legal responsibility for the care and placement of the child; and (B) Do not have foster home certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code.

...all be ten dollars and twenty cents per child, per day, to the extent funds are available. The department of children and youth shall increase the payment amount on January 1, 2022, and on the first day of each January thereafter by the cost-of-living adjustment made in the immediately preceding December.

...months after the date of placement of a child with the kinship caregiver.

...Kinship support program payments under section 5180.532 of the Revised Code shall cease when any of the following occur: (A) The kinship caregiver obtains foster home certification under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code. (B) In accordance with section 5180.534 of the Revised Code; (C) Placement with the kinship caregiver is terminated or otherwise ceases.

...The director of children and youth may adopt rules for the administration of the kinship support program in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code.

...Benefits and services provided under the kinship guardianship assistance program, extended kinship guardianship assistance program, kinship support program, and kinship permanency incentive program are inalienable whether by way of assignment, charge, or otherwise and exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, and other like processes.

...is either the custodial agency, private child placing agency, or private non-custodial agency.

... is hereby created in the department of children and youth the Ohio commission on fatherhood. The commission shall consist of the following members: (1)(a) Four members of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house, not more than two of whom are members of the same political party. Two of the members must be from legislative districts that include a county or part of a county that is among ...

...nor and shall report to the director of children and youth or the director's designee. The governor shall fix the executive director's salary on the basis of the executive director's experience and the executive director's responsibilities and duties. The executive director shall be in the unclassified civil service. The department of children and youth shall provide staff and other support services as necessar...