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...The director of job and family services or the director of children and youth may provide for a grant agreement entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code to have a retroactive effective date of the first day of July of an odd-numbered year if both of the following are the case: (A) The agreement is entered into after that date and before the last day of that July. (B) The board of county commissione...

...l publish in a manner accessible to the public all of the following that concern family services duties for which grants included in grant agreements entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code are awarded: state plans for receipt of federal financial participation, agreements between the department and a federal agency, and executive orders issued by the governor. The department may publish the materials ...

...The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may enter into a written agreement with one or more state agencies, as defined in section 117.01 of the Revised Code, and state universities and colleges to assist in the coordination, provision, or enhancement of the family services duties of a county family services agency or the workforce development activities of a local board, as defi...

...If the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth enters into an agreement or contracts with, or issues a grant to, a religious organization under section 5101.214 of the Revised Code, the religious organization shall comply with section 104 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193).

...The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth, as applicable, may enter into one or more written operational agreements with boards of county commissioners to do one or more of the following regarding family services duties: (A) Provide for the directors to amend or rescind a rule the directors previously adopted; (B) Provide for the directors to modify procedures or establish a...

...The department of job and family services and the department of children and youth, as applicable, may establish performance and other administrative standards for the administration and outcomes of family services duties and determine at intervals the departments decide the degree to which a county family services agency complies with a performance or other administrative standard. The departments may use statistica...

...(A) Except as provided by division (C) of this section, if the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth determines that a county family services agency has failed to comply with a performance or other administrative standard established under section 5101.22 of the Revised Code or by federal law for the administration or outcome of a family services duty, the department shall requ...

...The director of job and family services or the director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code to implement sections 5101.22 to 5101.222 of the Revised Code. If the director adopts the rules, the director shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules.

...Subject to the availability of funds, the department of job and family services and the department of children and youth may provide annual financial, administrative, or other incentive awards to county family services agencies and local areas as defined in section 6301.01 of the Revised Code. A county family services agency or local area may spend an incentive awarded under this section only for the purpose for whic...

...(A) As used in this section, "responsible county grantee" means whichever county grantee, as defined in section 5101.21 of the Revised Code, the director of job and family services and the director of children and youth determine is appropriate to take action against under division (C) of this section. (B) Regardless of whether a family services duty is performed by a county family services agency, private or gove...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Local area" and "chief elected official" have the same meaning as in section 5101.20 of the Revised Code. (2) "Responsible entity" means the chief elected officials of a local area. (B) The department of job and family services may take action under division (C) of this section against the responsible entity, regardless of who performs the workforce development activity, if the de...

...The department of job and family services or the director 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 responsible county grantee or responsible entity to recover any funds that the department determines the responsible county grantee or responsible entity owes the department for actions ...

...nd, before adopting the rules, give the public an opportunity to review and comment on the proposed rules.

...(A) If the department of job and family services or the department of children and youth determines that a grant awarded to a county grantee in a grant agreement entered into under section 5101.21 of the Revised Code, an allocation, advance, or reimbursement the department makes to a county family services agency, or a cash draw a county family services agency makes exceeds the allowable amount for the grant, allocat...

...The department of job and family services, and the department of children and youth in consultation with county representatives, shall develop annual training goals and model training curriculum for employees of county family services agencies and identify a variety of state funded training opportunities to meet the proposed goals.

...artment of job and family services or a public children services agency. (C) "Fugitive felon" means an individual who is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, under the laws of the place from which the individual is fleeing, for a crime or an attempt to commit a crime that is a felony under the laws of the place from which the individual is fleeing or, in the case of New Jersey,...

... the use of any information regarding a public assistance recipient for any purpose not directly connected with the administration of a public assistance program. (B) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department of job and family services, the department of children and youth, and county agencies shall do all of the following: (1) Release information regarding a public assistance recipient for purpose...

...payment, enrollment, or eligibility for public assistance cannot be conditioned on signing the authorization unless the authorization is necessary for determining eligibility for the public assistance program. (B) When an individual requests information pursuant to section 5101.27 of the Revised Code regarding the individual's receipt of public assistance and does not wish to provide a statement of purpose, the sta...

... participate as an active member in the public assistance reporting information system. The department may disclose information regarding a public assistance recipient to the extent necessary to participate as an active member in the public assistance reporting information system.

...ncy shall provide information regarding public assistance recipients to enable the department of job and family services, department of children and youth, or county agency to determine, for eligibility purposes, whether a recipient or a member of a recipient's assistance group is a fugitive felon or violating a condition of probation, a community control sanction, parole, or a post-release control sanction imposed u...

... a county agency, the following are not public records for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code: (A) Names and other identifying information regarding children enrolled in or attending a child care center or home subject to licensure or registration under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code; (B) Names and other identifying information regarding children placed with an institution or association certifie...

... participating in the administration of public assistance programs. The rules shall comply with applicable federal statutes and regulations. (1) The rules shall specify conditions and procedures for the release of information which may include, among other conditions and procedures, both of the following: (a) Permitting providers of services or assistance under public assistance programs limited access to inform...

...action agency" is not a state agency or public office. (E) "Community" means a city, village, county, multicity or multicounty unit, a neighborhood or other area, disregarding boundaries or political subdivisions, which provides a suitable organizational base and possesses a commonality of needs and interests for a community action program suitable to be served by a community action agency. (F) "Service area" mea...

...The director of job and family services shall employ and fix the compensation of professional and technical unclassified personnel as necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 5101.311 to 5101.317 of the Revised Code.

...l year that has been made available for public inspection and that details how community services block grant funds will be disbursed and used during that fiscal year; (3) Information detailing how funds were expended for the current fiscal year; (4) An audit of community services block grant expenditures for the preceding federal fiscal year that is conducted in accordance with generally accepted accounting prin...

...There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the job search and readiness program under which applicants for and participants of Ohio works first are trained in strategies and skills in obtaining employment and engage in self-directed, job search activities. County departments of job and family services shall develop and administer the program and may utilize the services of private or gov...

...(A) There is hereby established, as a work activity under Ohio works first, the subsidized employment program, under which private and government employers receive payments from appropriations to the department of job and family services for a portion of the costs of salaries, wages, and benefits those employers pay to or on behalf of employees who are participants of the subsidized employment program at the time of...

...nclude unpaid internships, refurbishing publicly assisted housing, and having a participant volunteer to work at the head start agency in which the participant's minor child is enrolled. Each county department shall make a list of the work projects available to the public. (C) Unless a county department of job and family services pays the premiums for the entity, a private or government entity with which a partici...

...ct with the chief administrator of a nonpublic school or with any school district board of education that has adopted a resolution under section 3319.089 of the Revised Code to provide for a participant of the work experience program who has a minor child enrolled in the nonpublic school or a public school in the district to be assigned under the work experience program to volunteer or work for compensation at the sc...

...hree years, support services, including publicly funded child care under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code and transportation, that the participant needs to participate in the program. To receive support services in the third year, the participant must be, as determined by the educational institution in which the participant is enrolled, in good standing with the institution. A county department that provides loan...

...In accordance with Title IV-A, federal regulations, state law, the Title IV-A state plan prepared under section 5101.80 of the Revised Code, and amendments to the plan, county departments of job and family services shall establish and administer the following work activities, in addition to the work activities established under sections 5107.50, 5107.52, 5107.54, and 5107.58 of the Revised Code, for minor heads of ho...

...Service as an Ohio works first ombudsperson pursuant to section 329.07 of the Revised Code may be an assignment under the work experience program or a work activity established under section 5107.60 of the Revised Code to which a participant of Ohio works first is assigned under section 5107.42 of the Revised Code.

...County departments of job and family services shall establish and administer developmental activities for minor heads of households and adults participating in Ohio works first. In establishing developmental activities, county departments are not limited by the restrictions that Title IV-A imposes on work activities. Developmental activities may be identical or similar to, or different from, work activities and alter...

...County departments of job and family services shall establish and administer alternative work activities for minor heads of households and adults participating in Ohio works first. In establishing alternative work activities, county departments are not limited by the restrictions Title IV-A imposes on work activities. The following are examples of alternative work activities that a county department may establish: (...

...(A) (1) No participant of Ohio works first shall be assigned to a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity when the employer removes or discharges a person, for the purpose of substituting the participant in the person's place, in any of the following circumstances: (a) The person is already employed as a regular full-time or part-time employee of the employer; (b) The person has been e...

...necessary. Support services may include publicly funded child care under Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code, transportation, and other services.

...Except for a participant of Ohio works first who is assigned to a work activity established under section 5107.52 or division (A) of section 5107.60 of the Revised Code, credit for work performed by a participant in a work activity, developmental activity, or alternative work activity does not constitute remuneration for the purpose of Chapter 124., 144., or 145. of the Revised Code and services performed by the part...

...(A) The county directors of job and family services shall implement and enforce the requirements of sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code. State and local agencies shall cooperate with county departments of job and family services to the maximum extent possible in the implementation of those sections. (B) In employing persons to administer and supervise work activities, developmental activities, and altern...

...If the United States secretary of health and human services informs the department of job and family services that implementation of sections 5107.40 to 5107.69 of the Revised Code jeopardizes federal funding for the Ohio works first program, the department shall ensure that county departments of job and family services require minor heads of household and adults participating in Ohio works first to participate in wo...

...s the member needs. The entity may be a public children services agency, chapter of alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous, or cocaine anonymous, or any other entity the county department considers appropriate.

...Each county department of job and family services shall do all of the following in accordance with rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code: (A) Identify members of assistance groups applying for and participating in Ohio works first who have been subjected to domestic violence by utilizing the domestic violence screening process established in the rules; (B) Refer a member who has been subjected...

...When utilizing the domestic violence screening process established in rules adopted under section 5107.05 of the Revised Code to identify members of assistance groups applying for and participating in Ohio works first who have been subjected to domestic violence, a county department of job and family services shall do both of the following: (A) Where available, rely on records from any of the following: (1) ...

...A member of an assistance group applying for or participating in Ohio works first who is referred to counseling or supportive services pursuant to division (B) of section 5107.71 of the Revised Code may decline the counseling, supportive services, or both.

...When a county department of job and family services identifies a member of an assistance group applying for or participating in Ohio works first who has been subjected to domestic violence, the county department shall provide information about the member to the department of job and family services. The department shall maintain the information for federal reporting and statistical analysis purposes only.

...A county department of job and family services shall issue a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first a waiver that exempts the member from a requirement of the Ohio works first program if the county department determines that the member has been subjected to domestic violence and requiring compliance with the requirement would make it more difficult for the member to escape domestic violence o...

...A county department of job and family services that refuses to issue a waiver under section 5107.714 of the Revised Code for a member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first shall provide the member a written explanation for the refusal. The written explanation shall be provided to the member in a manner protecting the member's confidentiality. The member may appeal the refusal pursuant to sect...

...A member of an assistance group participating in Ohio works first may decline a waiver that would otherwise be issued under section 5107.714 of the Revised Code and may terminate at any time a waiver that has been issued under that section.

...The department of job and family services shall monitor county departments of job and family services' implementation of sections 5107.71 to 5107.716 of the Revised Code to ensure that the county departments comply with those sections.

...nt's assistance group to any private or public agency, medical doctor, clinic, or other person or organization which can advise the parent on methods of controlling the size and spacing of the parent's family, consistent with the parent's religious and moral views. A county department shall document each referral it makes under this section.

...Cash assistance under Ohio works first is inalienable whether by way of assignment, charge, or otherwise and exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, and other like process.