Ohio Revised Code Search

...nistrator, employee, licensee, or child care staff member shall discriminate in the enrollment of children in a child care center, type A home, licensed type B home, or approved child day camp upon the basis of race, color, religion, sex, disability, or national origin.

...No employer shall discharge, demote, suspend, or threaten to discharge, demote, suspend, or in any manner discriminate against any employee based solely on the employee taking any of the following actions: (A) Making any good faith oral or written complaint to the director of children and youth or other agency responsible for enforcing Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code regarding a violation of this chapter or the ...

... aides to provide publicly funded child care pursuant to this chapter and any rules adopted under it. Any in-home aide who receives a certificate pursuant to this section to provide publicly funded child care is an independent contractor and is not an employee of the county department of job and family services that issues the certificate. (2) Every person desiring to receive certification as an in-home aide shall...

...ng the licensure of type B family child care homes. The department may publish the guide electronically or otherwise and shall do so in a manner that the guide is accessible to the public, including type B home providers.

...ildren and youth to type A family child care home providers, type B family child care home providers, in-home aides, persons seeking to be type A family child care home providers, type B family child care home providers, or in-home aides, and caretaker parents shall be written at no higher than the sixth grade reading level. The department may employ a readability expert to verify its compliance with this section.

...(A) The department of children and youth shall register child day camps and enforce this section and sections 5104.211 and 5104.22 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to those sections. No person, firm, organization, institution, or agency shall operate a child day camp without annually registering with the department. (B) A person, firm, institution, organization, or agency operating any of the fol...

...(A) The director of children and youth may periodically conduct a random sampling of child day camps to determine compliance with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No child day camp shall fail to comply with section 5104.013 of the Revised Code in regards to a person it appoints or employs. (2) If the director determines that a camp has violated division (B)(1) of this section, the director shall do ...

...(A) The director of children and youth, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules establishing a procedure and standards for the approval of child day camps that will enable an approved child day camp to receive public moneys pursuant to sections 5104.30 to 5104.39 of the Revised Code. The department of children and youth may charge a reasonable fee to inspect a child day camp to determine wheth...

... division (C) of this section, no child care center shall permit any person to smoke in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center. The administrator of a child care center shall post in a conspicuous place at the main entrance of the center a notice stating that smoking is prohibited in any indoor or outdoor space that is part of the center, except under the conditions described in division (C) of thi...

...rams that provide publicly funded child care and are linked to achieving and maintaining quality standards; (5) Parent and consumer education to help parents learn about program quality and ratings so they can make informed choices on behalf of their children. (B) The step up to quality program shall have the following goals: (1) Increasing the number of low-income children, special needs children, and child...

...quality program: (1) A licensed child care center operating a head start or early head start program; (2) A licensed child care center accredited by the national association for the education of young children, or its successor organization; (3) A licensed type A or type B family child care home under contract to provide head start or early head start services; (4) A licensed type A or type B family child car...

...state funding for publicly funded child care in this state. Publicly funded child care shall be provided to the following: (1) Recipients of transitional child care as provided under section 5104.34 of the Revised Code; (2) Participants in the Ohio works first program established under Chapter 5107. of the Revised Code; (3) Individuals who would be participating in the Ohio works first program if not for a s...

...rganization of parent cooperative child care centers and parent cooperative type A family child care homes for recipients of publicly funded child care. A program established under this section may include any of the following: (A) Recruitment of parents interested in organizing a parent cooperative child care center or parent cooperative type A family child care home; (B) Provision of technical assistance in o...

...payment rates for publicly funded child care providers in each odd-numbered year, as required by section 5104.30 of the Revised Code, the director of children and youth may contract with a third-party entity to analyze information regarding the prices charged for child care for the subsequent even-numbered year.

...(A) Publicly funded child care may be provided only by the following: (1) Any of the following licensed by the department of children and youth pursuant to section 5104.03 of the Revised Code or pursuant to rules adopted under section 5104.018 of the Revised Code: (a) A child care center, including a parent cooperative child care center; (b) A type A family child care home, including a parent cooperative typ...

... All purchases of publicly funded child care shall be made under a contract entered into by a licensed child care center, licensed type A family child care home, licensed type B family child care home, certified in-home aide, approved child day camp, licensed preschool program, licensed school child program, or border state child care provider and the department of children and youth. All contracts for publicly funde...

...eterminations for publicly funded child care. The form shall be as brief and simple as practicable. (B) In administering the process of applying for publicly funded child care, the county department of job and family services shall implement policies designed to ensure that the application process is as accessible to the public as possible. These policies shall include making the application forms available at app...

...f eligibility for publicly funded child care. Under those procedures, the eligibility determination for each applicant shall be made no later than thirty calendar days from the date the county department receives a completed application for publicly funded child care. Each applicant shall be notified promptly of the results of the eligibility determination. An applicant aggrieved by a decision or delay in making an e...

... Revised Code for publicly funded child care is valid for one year. (B) The county department of job and family services shall adjust the appropriate level of a fee charged under division (B) of section 5104.34 of the Revised Code if a caretaker parent reports changes in income, family size, or both.

...g and operating suitable licensed child care centers, type A family child care homes, or licensed type B family child care homes, especially in areas with high concentrations of recipients of public assistance, and for that purpose provide consultation to interested individuals and groups on request; (3) Inform clients of the availability of child care services. (B) A county department of job and family service...

...he licensee or administrator of a child care center, type A family child care home, or licensed type B family child care home, an in-home aide providing child care services, the director or administrator of an approved child day camp, and a border state child care provider shall keep a record for each eligible child enrolled with the center, home, in-home aide, camp, or provider, to be made available to the county de...

...blishment and licensure of family child care homes in this state, especially in areas with the greatest need for child care; (2) Connect families and caretaker parents in need of child care with family child care homes not meeting the license capacity specified on their licenses, as described in division (E) of section 5104.03 of the Revised Code. (B) The director may contract with one or more third-party entitie...

... requirements for publicly funded child care and establishing all of the following: (A) Procedures and criteria to be used in making determinations of eligibility for publicly funded child care that give priority to children of families with lower incomes and procedures and criteria for eligibility for publicly funded protective child care or homeless child care. The rules shall specify the maximum amount of incom...

...r eligibility for publicly funded child care, the director of children and youth may prescribe the amount, duration, and scope of benefits available as publicly funded child care.

... expenditures for publicly funded child care to ensure that expenditures do not exceed the available federal and state funds for publicly funded child care. The department of children and youth, with the assistance of the office of budget and management, shall monitor the anticipated future expenditures for publicly funded child care and shall compare those anticipated future expenditures to available federal and sta...