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...The department of children and youth shall serve as the "lead agency," as described by 20 U.S.C. 1435(a)(10), to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, through which early intervention services are provided to eligible infants and toddlers in accordance with part C of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 20 U.S.C. 1431 et seq., and regulations implementing that part in 34 C.F....

...The department of children and youth may do any of the following as the lead agency to implement the state's part C early intervention services program, as described in section 5180.30 of the Revised Code: (A) Enter into an interagency agreement with one or more other state agencies to implement the program and ensure coordination of early childhood programs; (B) Distribute program funds through contracts, gran...

... Procedures to appeal a decision by the department of developmental disabilities to deny an application to be a program service provider or to terminate a provider's status; (F) Procedures for addressing complaints by persons who receive program services; (G) Criteria for the payment of program service providers; (H) The metrics or indicators used to measure program service provider performance.

...e independent contractor engaged by the department of education and workforce to create and maintain such codes for school districts and community schools under division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code for each child who is receiving services from the state's part C early intervention services program. The director shall request from the parent, guardian, or custodian of the child, or from any other p...

...nizations located in each participating county to ensure all books distributed under the program remain at no cost to Ohio families; (2) Provide advice and recommendations to the Dollywood foundation on the appointment and hiring of the Ohio director of the Dollywood foundation who will manage the daily operations of Dolly Parton's imagination library of Ohio; (3) Provide strategic advice to the state director; ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall establish and maintain a uniform statewide automated child welfare information system in accordance with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. 674(a)(3)(C) and related federal regulations and guidelines. The information system shall contain records regarding any of the following: (1) Investigations of children and families, and children's care in out-of-home care, in accordan...

...Except as provided in section 5180.402 of the Revised Code, information contained in or obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code is confidential and is not subject to disclosure pursuant to section 149.43 or 1347.08 of the Revised Code.

... or entered only as follows: (1) The department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, a public children services agency, a title IV-E agency, a prosecuting attorney, a private child placing agency, and a private noncustodial agency may access or enter the information when either of the following is the case: (a) The access or entry is directly connected with assessment, investigation...

...No person shall access or use information contained in the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code other than in accordance with section 5180.402 of the Revised Code or rules authorized by that section. No person shall disclose information obtained from the information system established and maintained under section 5180.40 of the Revised Code in a manner not specifie...

...ection 5180.40 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regarding a private child placing agency's or private noncustodial agency's access, data entry, and use of information in the uniform statewide automated child welfare information system. (B)(1) The department of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section...

...he first day of March of each year, the department of children and youth shall report to the director of health the number of reports of child abuse that arose from an act that caused the child to suffer from, or resulted in the child suffering from, shaken baby syndrome and that arose during the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which the report is made, as determined by an examination of the ...

...If a person requests the department of children and youth to conduct a search of whether that person's name has been placed or remains in the statewide automated child welfare information system as an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect and a search reveals that a "substantiated" disposition exists, the department shall send a letter to the person who requested the search indicating a "match."

...The department of children and youth shall work with stakeholders to establish an expungement policy regarding dispositions of child abuse or neglect in Ohio's central registry on child abuse and neglect by March 1, 2024.

...dren services. Funds provided to the county under this section shall be deposited into the children services fund created pursuant to section 5180.411 of the Revised Code. (C) In each fiscal year, the amount of funds available for distribution under this section shall be allocated to counties as follows: (1) If the amount is less than the amount initially appropriated for the immediately preceding fiscal yea...

...Each county shall deposit all funds its public children services agency receives from appropriations made by the board of county commissioners or any other source for the purpose of providing children services into a special fund in the county treasury known as the children services fund. A county shall use money in the fund only for the purposes of meeting the expenses of providing children services.

...his section that are not imposed on the county, the county, on behalf of each child eligible for foster care maintenance payments under Title IV-E, shall make payments to cover the cost of providing all of the following: (a) The child's food, clothing, shelter, daily supervision, and school supplies; (b) The child's personal incidentals; (c) Reasonable travel to the child's home for visitation. (2) In add...

...(A) The department of children and youth may apply to the United States secretary of health and human services for a waiver of requirements established under Title IV-E, or regulations adopted thereunder, to conduct a demonstration project expanding eligibility for and services provided under Title IV-E. The department may enter into agreements with the secretary necessary to implement the demonstration project, incl...

...ble placement services to children, the department of children and youth may establish both of the following: (1) A single form for the agencies or entities to report costs reimbursable under Title IV-E and costs reimbursable under medicaid; (2) Procedures to monitor cost reports submitted by the agencies or entities. (B) The procedures established under division (A)(2) of this section shall be used to do bo...

...The department of children and youth shall establish the following penalties, which shall be enforced at the discretion of the department, for the failure of a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children to comply with procedures the department establishes to ensure fiscal accounta...

...he department shall notify the board of county commissioners of the county served by the agency. If a private child placing agency or private noncustodial agency fails to comply with the fiscal accountability procedures, the department shall notify the executive director of each public children services agency that has entered into a contract for services with the private child placing agency or private noncustodial ...

...If the department of children and youth sanctions a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency, it shall take every possible precaution to ensure that any foster children that have been placed by the agency under sanction are not unnecessarily removed from the certified foster homes in which they reside.

...Money from the children services fund shall not be used to provide a personal loan to any individual.

...4 and 5180.423 of the Revised Code, the department of children and youth may certify a claim to the attorney general under section 131.02 of the Revised Code for the attorney general to take action under that section against a public children services agency, private child placing agency, private noncustodial agency, or government entity that provides Title IV-E reimbursable placement services to children if all of t...

...ttings. (G) Any determination by the department of children and youth that denies or terminates foster care assistance, kinship guardianship assistance, or adoption assistance payments shall be subject to a state hearing pursuant to section 5101.35 of the Revised Code.

...untary participation agreement with the department of children and youth, or its representative, for the emancipated young adult's care and placement. The agreement shall stay in effect until one of the following occurs: (1) The emancipated young adult enrolled in the program notifies the department, or its representative, that they want to terminate the agreement. (2) The emancipated young adult becomes inelig...