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...(A) As used in sections 2151.4116 to 2151.4122 of the Revised Code: (1) "Kinship caregiver" has the same meaning as used in section 5101.85 of the Revised Code. (2) "Search technology" means any locate-and-research tool, search engine, electronic database, or social media search tool available to a public children services agency or a private child placing agency.

...A public children services agency or private child placing agency shall make intensive efforts to identify and engage an appropriate and willing kinship caregiver for the care of a child who is in one of following: (A) Temporary custody of the agency; (B) A planned permanent living arrangement with the agency.

...(A) At every court hearing regarding a child described in section 2151.4116 of the Revised Code, the court shall determine whether the public children services agency or private child placing agency has continued intensive efforts to identify and engage appropriate and willing kinship caregivers for the child. (B) At each hearing the court shall: (1) Review the placement of the child to determine if the child is ...

...A court may issue an order that determines, with respect to a child described in section 2151.4116 of the Revised Code who is not receiving care in the home of a kinship caregiver, that the continuation of the child's current placement is in the child's best interest and that intensive efforts to identify and engage an appropriate and willing kinship caregiver for the child are unnecessary if the court makes the find...

...A court may issue an order under section 2151.4118 of the Revised Code if it finds all of the following: (A) The child has been living in a stable home environment with the child's current caregivers for the past twelve consecutive months. (B) The current caregivers have expressed interest in providing permanency for the child. (C) The removal of the child from the current caregivers would be detrimental to the...

...If a court makes the findings under section 2151.4119 of the Revised Code, the court and public children services agency or private child placing agency may consider the child's current caregiver as having a kin relationship with the child and at an equal standing to other kin in regards to permanency.

...provide a permanent home for a child, a court may excuse the public children services agency or private child placing agency from considering such relative for placement if the court has issued an order under section 2151.4119 of the Revised Code.

...Nothing in sections 2151.4115 to 2151.4121 of the Revised Code shall be construed to prevent a public children services agency or private child placing agency from continuing to search or consider kinship caregivers.

...(A) At any hearing in which a court is asked to modify or terminate an order of disposition issued under section 2151.353, 2151.415, or 2151.417 of the Revised Code, the court, in determining whether to return the child to the child's parents, shall consider whether it is in the best interest of the child. (B) An order of disposition issued under division (A)(3) of section 2151.353, division (A)(3) of section 2151.4...

...(A) As used in this section, "Homeless shelter" means a facility that provides accommodations to homeless individuals. (B) On receipt of a notice pursuant to division (A), (B), or (E) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, the public children services agency shall determine whether the child subject to the report is living in a shelter for victims of domestic violence or a homeless shelter and whether the child wa...

...A public children services agency shall disclose confidential information discovered during an investigation conducted pursuant to section 2151.421 or 2151.422 of the Revised Code to any federal, state, or local government entity, including any appropriate military authority or any agency providing prevention services to the child, that needs the information to carry out its responsibilities to protect children from ...

... section 5101.85 of the Revised Code, a court, prior to conducting any hearing pursuant to division (F)(2) or (3) of section 2151.412 or section 2151.28, 2151.33, 2151.35, 2151.414, 2151.415, 2151.416, or 2151.417 of the Revised Code with respect to the child, shall notify the foster caregiver or kinship caregiver of the date, time, and place of the hearing. At the hearing, the foster caregiver or kinship caregiver s...

...As used in sections 2151.426 to 2151.428 of the Revised Code: (A) "Children's advocacy center" means a center operated by participating entities within a county or two or more contiguous counties to perform functions and activities and provide services, in accordance with the interagency agreement entered into under section 2151.428 of the Revised Code, regarding reports received under section 2151.421 of the Revise...

...(A)(1) A children's advocacy center may be established to serve a single county by execution of a memorandum of understanding regarding the participation in the operation of the center by any of the following entities in the county to be served by the center: (a) The public children services agency; (b) Representatives of any county or municipal law enforcement agencies serving the county that investigate any of th...

...(A) The entities that participate in a memorandum of understanding executed under section 2151.426 of the Revised Code establishing a children's advocacy center shall assemble the center's multidisciplinary team. (B)(1) The multidisciplinary team for a single county center shall consist of the following members who serve the county: (a) Any county or municipal law enforcement officer; (b) The executive director of...

...r's jurisdiction: (1) The protocol and procedures for any and all referrals and investigations of the reports; (2) Any and all coordinating activities between the parties that enter into the agreement; (3) The authority or responsibility for performing any and all functions and activities, and providing any and all services, regarding the reports and the children who are the subjects of the reports. (B) The parti...

.... of the Revised Code setting forth the procedures and criteria for public children services agencies to assign and reassign response pathways. (B) The agency shall use the traditional response for the following types of accepted reports: (1) Physical abuse resulting in serious injury or that creates a serious and immediate risk to a child's health and safety. (2) Sexual abuse. (3) Child fatality. (4) ...

...(A) A public children services agency shall determine as soon as practicable if a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is subject to an investigation under section 2151.421 or 2151.422 of the Revised Code is in the armed forces. (B) If the agency determines that the parent, guardian, or custodian is in the armed forces, the agency shall notify the appropriate authority of that armed force in which the pare...

... memorandum. (B)(1) The clerk of the court of common pleas in the county may sign the memorandum of understanding prepared under division (A) of this section. (2) If the clerk signs the memorandum of understanding, the clerk shall execute all relevant responsibilities as required of officials specified in the memorandum.

...g: (1) Set forth the normal operating procedure to be employed by all concerned officials in the execution of their respective responsibilities under this section and division (C) of section 2919.21, division (B)(1) of section 2919.22, division (B) of section 2919.23, and section 2919.24 of the Revised Code; (2) Have as two of its primary goals both of the following: (a) The elimination of all unnecessary inter...

...ndum for necessary updates to terms and procedures; (B) Update the memorandum's terms and procedures, if the concerned officials determine an update is necessary; (C) Sign the reviewed memorandum; (D) Submit the memorandum to the board of county commissioners for approval.

...Failure to follow the procedure set forth in the memorandum of understanding by the concerned officials is not grounds for, and shall not result in, the dismissal of any charges or complaint arising from any reported case of abuse or neglect or the suppression of any evidence obtained as a result of any reported child abuse or child neglect and does not give, and shall not be construed as giving, any rights or any gr...

...(A) On receipt of a county's memorandum of understanding submitted to the board of county commissioners in accordance with section 2151.4222 of the Revised Code, the board shall review and evaluate if the memorandum meets the requirements under sections 2151.4220 to 2151.4222 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) If the board determines the memorandum meets those requirements, it shall adopt a resolution to approve the memor...

...The biennial review of a county memorandum of understanding pursuant to division 2151.4222 of the Revised Code and the biennial adoption of a resolution by the board of county commissioners to approve the memorandum under section 2151.4225 of the Revised Code shall be completed by the thirty-first day of December following the first full calendar year after the effective date of this section, and by the thirty-first ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a model memorandum of understanding to provide guidance to public children services agencies and other concerned officials in creating a memorandum of understanding in compliance with sections 2151.4220 to 2151.4226 of the Revised Code. (B) The model memorandum of understanding shall be updated as the department determines is necessary.