Ohio Revised Code Search

...(A)(1) A county director of job and family services may certify in-home aides to provide publicly funded child care pursuant to this chapter and any rules adopted under it. Any in-home aide who receives a certificate pursuant to this section to provide publicly funded child care is an independent contractor and is not an employee of the county department of job and family services that issues the certificate. (2) ...

...The department of children and youth shall prepare a guide describing the state statutes and rules governing the licensure of type B family child care homes. The department may publish the guide electronically or otherwise and shall do so in a manner that the guide is accessible to the public, including type B home providers.

...All materials that are supplied by the department of children and youth to type A family child care home providers, type B family child care home providers, in-home aides, persons seeking to be type A family child care home providers, type B family child care home providers, or in-home aides, and caretaker parents shall be written at no higher than the sixth grade reading level. The department may employ a readabilit...

...hone number of the county department of health and the public children services agency of the county in which the child day camp is located; (2) That the child day camp administrator or the administrator's representative agrees to permit a public children services agency or the county department of health to review or inspect the child day camp if a complaint is made to that department or any other state departmen...

...(A) The director of children and youth may periodically conduct a random sampling of child day camps to determine compliance with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No child day camp shall fail to comply with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code in regards to a person it appoints or employs. (2) If the director determines that a camp has violated division (B)(1) of this section, the director shall do ...

...(A) The director of children and youth, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules establishing a procedure and standards for the approval of child day camps that will enable an approved child day camp to receive public moneys pursuant to sections 5104.30 to 5104.39 of the Revised Code. The department of children and youth may charge a reasonable fee to inspect a child day camp to determine wheth...

...h, in consultation with the director of health, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to implement the requirements of this section. These rules may prohibit smoking in a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home if its design and structure do not allow persons to smoke under the conditions described in division (C) of this section or i...

...(A) There is hereby created in the department of children and youth the step up to quality program, under which the department of children and youth, in cooperation with the department of education and workforce, shall develop a tiered quality rating and improvement system for all early learning and development programs in this state. The step up to quality program shall include all of the following components: (1...

...(A) This section establishes standards and conditions for rating the following early learning and development programs in the step up to quality program: (1) A licensed child care center operating a head start or early head start program; (2) A licensed child care center accredited by the national association for the education of young children, or its successor organization; (3) A licensed type A or type B fam...

...pply to the United States department of health and human services for authority to operate a coordinated program for publicly funded child care, if the director of children and youth determines that the application is necessary. For purposes of this section, the department of children and youth may enter into agreements with other state agencies that are involved in regulation or funding of child care. The department...

...A county department of job and family services may establish a program to encourage the organization of parent cooperative child care centers and parent cooperative type A family child care homes for recipients of publicly funded child care. A program established under this section may include any of the following: (A) Recruitment of parents interested in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent...

...In addition to establishing payment rates for publicly funded child care providers in each odd-numbered year, as required by section 5104.30 of the Revised Code, the director of children and youth may contract with a third-party entity to analyze information regarding the prices charged for child care for the subsequent even-numbered year.

...(A) Publicly funded child care may be provided only by the following: (1) Any of the following licensed by the department of children and youth pursuant to section 5104.03 of the Revised Code or pursuant to rules adopted under section 5104.018 of the Revised Code: (a) A child care center, including a parent cooperative child care center; (b) A type A family child care home, including a parent cooperative typ...

...(A) All purchases of publicly funded child care shall be made under a contract entered into by a licensed child care center, licensed type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, certified in-home aide, approved child day camp, licensed preschool program, licensed school child program, or border state child care provider and the department of children and youth. All contracts for publicly fu...

...(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...

...(A)(1) Each county department of job and family services shall implement procedures for making determinations 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 promptl...

...(A) An eligibility determination made under section 5104.34 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.

...(A) Each county department of job and family services shall do all of the following: (1) Accept any gift, grant, or other funds from either public or private sources offered unconditionally or under conditions which are, in the judgment of the department, proper and consistent with this chapter and deposit the funds in the county public assistance fund established by section 5101.161 of the Revised Code; (2) Re...

...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 enrolled with the center, home, in-home aide, camp, or provider, to be made available to the county d...

...(A) In addition to the duties described in division (D) of section 5104.30 of the Revised Code, the director of children and youth shall engage in activities to do the following: (1) Encourage the establishment and licensure of family child care homes in this state, especially in areas with the greatest need for child care; (2) Connect families and caretaker parents in need of child care with family child care ho...

...In addition to any other rules adopted under this chapter, the director of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing financial and administrative requirements for publicly funded child care and establishing all of the following: (A) Procedures and criteria to be used in making determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child care that give priority to...

...In adopting rules under division (A) of section 5104.38 of the Revised Code establishing criteria 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...

...A county department of job and family services shall not be held responsible for implementing any rule adopted under 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 twelve months.