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... a county commissioner representing the board of county commissioners of the county, the administrative judge of the general division of the court of common pleas of the county, the sheriff of the county, and an official from any municipality operating a local correctional facility in the county to which courts of the county sentence offenders shall agree to, sign, and submit to the department of rehabilitation and c...

...(A) As used in the Revised Code, "public children services agency" means an entity specified in section 5153.02 of the Revised Code that has assumed the powers and duties of the children services function prescribed by this chapter for a county. (B) As used in this chapter: (1) "Certified foster home" means a foster home, as defined in section 5103.02 of the Revised Code, certified under section 5103.03 of the ...

...agency: (A) A county children services board; (B) A county department of job and family services; (C) A private or government entity designated under section 307.981 of the Revised Code.

...If a county children services board is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners shall appoint five members of the county children services board and for good cause may remove any member so appointed. Each of these members shall be appointed for the term of four years, but the board shall stagger their terms so that the terms of not more than two of the required members of the ...

...A county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code shall elect one of its members as chairperson and another as secretary. The chairperson may appoint committees composed of board members and other persons interested in child care. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and the action of a majority of the members present shall constitute the action of the b...

...If a county children services board appointed under section 5153.03 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board may appoint an advisory committee on children services. If an entity specified in division (B) or (C) of section 5153.02 of the Revised Code is a public children services agency for a county, the board of county commissioners may appoint an advisory committee on children...

...The county children services board may enter into a written contract with the board's executive director specifying terms and conditions of the executive director's employment. The executive director shall not be in the classified civil service. The period of the contract shall not exceed three years. Such a contract shall in no way abridge the right of the county children services board to terminate the employment o...

...Each public children services agency shall designate an executive officer known as the "executive director," who shall not be in the classified civil service. The superintendent of the children's home, the county director of job and family services, or other individual may serve as the executive director. The agency shall, from time to time, inquire into community conditions affecting the welfare of children and st...

...The executive director shall administer the work of the public children services agency, subject to the rules of the agency. With the approval of the agency, the executive director shall appoint all other employees except the superintendent of any institution maintained by the agency. Such superintendent shall appoint all employees in any such institution. Upon the advice of one or more reputable practicing physicia...

...(A)(1) The executive director of a public children services agency shall request the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any applicant who has applied to the agency for employment as a person responsible for the care, custody, or control of a child. If the applicant does not present proof that the applicant has been a resident o...

...(A) A public children services agency may hire as a caseworker only the following: (1) A person who has a bachelor's degree in human services-related studies; (2) A person who has a bachelor's degree in any field and has been employed for at least two years in a human services-related occupation; (3) A person who has an associate's degree in human services-related studies; (4) A person who has completed at le...

...(A)(1) As used in this section, "applicant" has the same meaning as in section 5153.111 of the Revised Code, and includes an intern applicant or a volunteer applicant. (2) "Intern applicant" means a trainee seeking practical educational and career experience who is under consideration for a position with a public children services agency to work, with or without monetary gain or compensation, as a person responsib...

...All employees of the public children services agency shall be in the classified civil 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 appoint...

...(A) The board of county 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 bo...

...Each PCSA caseworker hired after January 1, 2007, shall complete in-service training during the first year of the caseworker's continuous employment as a PCSA caseworker, except that the executive director of the public children services agency may waive the training requirement for a school of social work graduate who participated in the university partnership program described in division (E) of section 5180.42 of ...

...Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall complete in-service training during the first year 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...

...(A)(1) The director of children and youth shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the training requirements of sections 5153.122 and 5153.123 of the Revised Code. (2) Not later than nine months after September 30, 2021, the director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish the circumstances under which an executive director of a public children services agency may waiv...

...Each PCSA caseworker supervisor shall work with each PCSA caseworker the supervisor supervises to determine the caseworker's training needs in accordance 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 assess...

...The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director shall work with each PCSA caseworker supervisor employed by the agency to determine the supervisor's training needs in accordance 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 th...

...The executive director of each public children services agency or a person designated by the executive director 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 col...

...of the Revised Code, in such sum as the board determines, with sufficient surety, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of such employee and the full and faithful accounting of any funds and properties coming into the employee's hands. The cost of such bonds shall be paid by the agency.

...ncy, and, if a county children services board is the public children services agency, board members against liability arising from the performance of their official duties.

...e department of children 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 t...

... services or a county children services board.

... (10) Subject to the approval of the board of county commissioners and the department of children and youth, establish and operate a training school or enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the county respecting the operation, acquisition, or maintenance of any children's home, training school, or other institution for the care of children maintained by such munic...