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... requirements: (1) Is the parent of a child who is under nineteen years of age, resides with the parent, and is enrolled in the children's health insurance program part I or II or the medicaid program; (2) Is uninsured; (3) Has a family income that does not exceed one hundred per cent of the federal poverty line. (B) A waiver request the director submits under division (A) of this section may seek federal fu...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall serve as the state's primary children's services agency and shall facilitate and coordinate the delivery of children's services in this state, including, but not limited to, those related to adoption, child care, child welfare, early childhood education, early intervention, foster care, home visiting, infant and early childhood mental consultation, and preschool special ...

...(A) The director of children and youth is the chief executive of and appointing authority for the department of children and youth. In this role, the director shall administer the department and implement the delivery in this state of children's services, including by doing all of the following: (1) Adopting as necessary rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code and section 111.15 of the Revised Co...

...(A) The governor shall create the children and youth advisory council in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1) and 20 U.S.C. 1441 and shall appoint one of its members to serve as chairperson of the council with the director of children and youth serving as co-chairperson. (B)(1) The council shall serve as both the state advisory council on early childhood education and care, as described in 42 U.S.C. 9837b(b)(1), ...

...ctor's designee; (5) The director of children and youth or the director's designee; (6) The director of health or the director's designee; (7) The director of developmental disabilities or the director's designee; (8) The executive director of the commission on minority health or the executive director's designee; (9) The attorney general or the attorney general's designee; (10) A health commissione...

...ach calendar quarter, the department of children and youth shall determine the state's preliminary infant mortality and preterm birth rates, as well as the stillbirth rate, delineated by race and ethnic group. The rates shall be determined using a simple rolling average. The department shall publish the rates in a quarterly report, which shall also include a description of the data sources and methodology used to det...

...luntary muscles. (B) The director of children and youth shall do all of the following: (1) Publish stillbirth data compiled from the department of health's fetal death statistical file and make it available on the department of children and youth's internet web site; (2) Review the stillbirth data described in division (B)(1) of this section and identify potential trends in the incidence of stillbirth and th...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create an infant mortality scorecard. The scorecard shall report all of the following: (1) The state's performance on population health measures, including the infant mortality rate, preterm birth rate, and low birth weight rate, delineated by race, ethnic group, region of the state, and the state as a whole; (2) Preliminary data the department possesses on the sta...

...nd 5180.17 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child care center," "type A family child care home," and "licensed type B family child care home" have the same meanings as in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Child care facility" means a child care center, a type A family child care home, or a licensed type B family child care home. (3) "Foster caregiver" has the same meaning as in section 5103.02 of the Revise...

...uted in the following manner: (1) By childbirth educators and the staff of obstetricians' offices, to an expectant parent who uses their services; (2) By the staff of pediatric physicians' offices, to any of the following who use their services: an infant's parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the infant; (3) By the staff of a hospital or freestanding birthing center, to an infant's parent, guar...

...investigation. (B) The department of children and youth shall establish the safe sleep education program by doing all of the following: (1) Developing educational materials that present readily comprehendible information on safe sleeping practices for infants and possible causes of sudden unexpected infant death; (2) Making available on the department's internet web site in an easily accessible format the ed...

...ace and environment. The director of children and youth shall develop questions that facilities may use when implementing the infant safe sleep screening procedure required by this division. The director may consult with persons and government entities that have expertise in infant safe sleep practices when developing the questions. (C) If, prior to an infant's discharge from a facility to the infant's residenc...

...The director of children and youth shall require each recipient of a grant the department of children and youth administers that pertains to safe crib procurement to report annually to the department both of the following: (A) Demographic information specified by the director of children and youth regarding the individuals to whom safe cribs were distributed; (B) If known, the extent to which distributed cribs ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a population-based questionnaire designed to examine maternal behaviors and experiences before, during, and after a woman's pregnancy, as well as during the early infancy of the woman's child. The questionnaire shall collect information that is similar to the information collected by the pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system (PRAMS) questionnaire that the de...

...(A) The director of children and youth shall identify each government program providing benefits, other than the help me grow program established by the department of children and youth pursuant to section 5180.21 of the Revised Code, that has the goal of reducing infant mortality and negative birth outcomes or the goal of reducing disparities among women who are pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant and who belon...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a central intake and referral system for all home visiting programs operating in this state. Through a competitive bidding process, the department of children and youth may select one or more persons or government entities to operate the system. In its oversight of the one or more system operators, the department shall streamline the system to ensure families and ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall develop educational materials describing the health risks of lead-based paint and measures that may be taken to reduce those risks. (B) As part of the home visiting services described in section 5180.21 of the Revised Code, each eligible family residing in a house, apartment, or other residence built before January 1, 1979, shall receive a copy of the educational mate...

...section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, a child day camp, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, or a child day camp operated by any county, township, municipal corporation, township park district created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, or joint recreation district established under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may procure epin...

...section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, a child day camp, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code, or a child day camp operated by any county, township, municipal corporation, township park district created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, or joint recreation district established under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may procure inha...

...section 2151.011 of the Revised Code; a child day camp, as defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised Code; or a child day camp operated by any county, township, municipal corporation, township park district created under section 511.18 of the Revised Code, park district created under section 1545.04 of the Revised Code, or joint recreation district established under section 755.14 of the Revised Code may procure inje...

...hereby established in the department of children and youth a pregnancy-associated mortality review (PAMR) board to identify and review all pregnancy-associated deaths statewide for the purpose of reducing the incidence of those deaths.

...The PAMR board may not conduct a review of a pregnancy-associated death while an investigation of the death or prosecution of a person for causing the death is pending unless the prosecuting attorney agrees to allow the review. The law enforcement agency conducting the criminal investigation, on the conclusion of the investigation, and the prosecuting attorney prosecuting the case, on the conclusion of the prosecutio...

... the PAMR board: (A) The director of children and youth shall appoint the board's members. In doing so, the director shall make a good faith effort to select members who represent all regions of the state and multiple areas of expertise and constituencies concerned with the care of pregnant and postpartum women. (B) The board, by a majority vote of a quorum of its members, shall select an individual to serve as...

...ies; (C) Providing the department of children and youth with aggregate data, trends, and patterns regarding pregnancy-associated deaths using data and other relevant information specified in rules adopted under section 5180.278 of the Revised Code; (D) Developing effective interventions to reduce the mortality of pregnant and postpartum women.

...(A) Notwithstanding section 3701.243 and any other section of the Revised Code pertaining to confidentiality, and except as provided in division (B) of this section, an individual, government entity, agency that provides services specifically to individuals or families, law enforcement agency, health care provider, or other public or private entity that provided services to a woman whose death is being reviewed by th...