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...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 responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child. (B) Notwi...

...ivil 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 appointments are made. This chapter shall not affect the civil service status of any emp...

...unty 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 commi...

... children and families from the initial time of contact during investigation through treatment, including instruction regarding parents' rights and the limitations that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution places upon caseworkers and their investigations; (L) Content on other topics relevant to child abuse, neglect, and dependency, including permanency strategies, concurrent planning, and adoptio...

...r of the supervisor's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker supervisor. The training shall 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 y...

...caseworker supervisors as necessary to comply with federal requirements.

...ance 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 assessment created under section 5103.37 of the Revised Code.

...ance 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 the executive director of the public children services agency employing the supervisor, or the person designated by the executive director, shall jointly complete the supervisor's individual training needs assessment created under section...

...r 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 collected from the completed assessments to the regional training center established under section 5103.41 of the...

...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 bond to the probate court, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the full and faithful accounting of all trust funds which the executive director holds on behalf of wards. The amount of such bond s...

...ard members against liability arising from the performance of their official duties.

...hildren 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 director of children and youth, or by the board of county commissioners to specified governmental bodies and officers and shall provide reports to the public, when s...

...The powers and duties enumerated in sections 5153.16 to 5153.19 of the Revised 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.

...es related to the exercise of parenting time rights granted pursuant to section 3109.051 or 3109.12 of the Revised Code or companionship or visitation rights granted pursuant to section 3109.051, 3109.11, or 3109.12 of the Revised Code unless a juvenile court, pursuant to Chapter 2151. of the Revised Code, or a common pleas court, pursuant to division (E)(6) of section 3113.31 of the Revised Code, requires the provis...

...nrelative 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 means or through o...

...sition, 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 any one of t...

...option decree is not issued within that time because of a delay in court proceedings. Payments that begin before issuance of the final adoption decree may continue after its issuance. (C)(1) A public children services agency may enter into an agreement with a child's relative under which the agency, to the extent state funds are available, may provide state kinship guardianship assistance as needed on behalf of th...

...ad, 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 Revised Code. ...

...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.

...include those pertaining to the adult's time placed in foster care. Records may include medical, mental health, school, and legal records and a comprehensive summary of reasons why the adult was placed in foster care. (2) The executive director or the director's designee may redact information that is specific to other individuals if that information does not directly pertain to the requesting adult's records that...

... 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 director confers with the prosecuting attorney, the following apply: (1) If the prosecuting attorney intends to prosecute a person for causing the child's death, th...

...ts or, if investigations have not been completed, the status of any investigations; (3) Services provided to or purchased for the child or to which the child was referred by a public children services agency; (4) Actions taken by a public children services agency in response to any report of abuse or neglect of which the child was the subject. (B) No person may release, pursuant to a request made under this sectio...

...termines, 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.

...icensure as a type A family child care home or type B family child care home, the agency shall promptly provide to the department of children and youth any information the agency determines to be relevant for the purpose of evaluating the fitness of the person, including, but not limited to, both of the following: (1) A summary report of the chronology of abuse and neglect reports made pursuant to section 2151.421...

...ect, including, but not limited to, the time and place that the abuse or neglect occurred. (h) Copies of any written correspondence between the child and the alleged perpetrator of the abuse or neglect that was used by the agency to determine that abuse or neglect occurred, the release of which is not otherwise prohibited by law. (2) The following information about the alleged perpetrator of the abuse or neglect: ...