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...Each county shall bear all of the expenses incident to the transportation of a child committed to the department of youth services by the juvenile court of that county from that county to the institution to which the department has assigned the child and shall bear the fees and costs allowed in similar cases. The fees, costs, and expenses shall be paid from the county treasury upon itemized vouchers certified to by t...

...The department of youth services may designate the institutions under its management and control, present and future, by appropriate respective names, regardless of present statutory designation.

...The department of youth services, with the approval of the governor and the attorney general, may buy, sell, lease, or exchange portions of land or property, real or personal, under the management and control of the department, or enter into contracts relative thereto, or grant easements or licenses for the use thereof, when such purchase, sale, lease, exchange, contract, easement, or license is advantageous to the s...

...Subject to the approval of the controlling board, the department of youth services may grant and pay financial assistance to defray the county's share of the cost of acquiring or constructing a district detention facility, established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code, to any county making application under section 2152.43 of the Revised Code if the department finds that the application was made in accordance...

...The department of youth services shall adopt and promulgate regulations prescribing the method of calculating the amount of and the time and manner for the payment of financial assistance granted under sections 5139.27 and 5139.271 of the Revised Code, for the construction or acquisition of a district detention facility established under section 2152.41 of the Revised Code, or for the construction and maintenance of ...

...The department of youth services may, by mutual agreement with the governing board of a school, forestry camp, or other facility established under section 2151.65 of the Revised Code, transfer to such school, forestry camp, or other facility any child committed to the department.

...The department of youth services may inspect any school, forestry camp, district detention facility, or other facility for which an application for financial assistance has been made to the department under section 2152.43 or 2151.651 of the Revised Code or for which financial assistance has been granted by the department under section 5139.27, 5139.271, or 5139.281 of the Revised Code. The inspection may include, ...

...(A) Whenever a child committed to the department of youth services is unable to benefit from the programs conducted by the department, as found under division (B) of this section, the department forthwith shall release or discharge such child from its jurisdiction and either return the child to the committing court, provided that such court so consents or directs, or otherwise secure for the child an environment more...

...Within ninety days prior to the expiration of the prescribed minimum period of institutionalization of a felony delinquent committed to the department of youth services and with prior approval of the committing court, the department may transfer the felony delinquent to a community facility on supervised release as described in section 5139.18 of the Revised Code. For purposes of transfers under this section,...

...There is hereby created within the department of children and youth the children's trust fund board consisting of fifteen members. The directors of mental health and addiction services, health, and children and youth shall be members of the board. Eight public members shall be appointed by the governor. These members shall be persons with demonstrated knowledge in programs for children, shall be representative of the...

...The youth and family ombudsman office shall perform all of the following duties: (A) Receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints from citizens, including children in the custody of a public children services agency or in the care and placement of a Title IV-E agency, related to government services regarding child protective services, foster care, and adoption; (B) Establish procedures for receiving ...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Hearing" has the same meaning as in section 119.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Permanent custody" has the same meaning as in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code. (B) The department of children and youth may enter into agreements with public children services agencies and private child placing agencies under which the department will make payments to encourage the adoptive pla...

...(A) All of the following apply to the independent contractor engaged by the department of education and workforce to create and maintain for school districts and community schools the student data verification codes required by division (D)(2) of section 3301.0714 of the Revised Code: (1) Upon request of the director of any state agency that administers a publicly funded program providing services to children who ...

...(A) The Ohio commission on fatherhood shall elect a chairperson from among its members in every odd-numbered year. (B) The governor shall appoint an individual to serve as the commission's executive director. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and shall report to the director of children and youth or the director's designee. The governor shall fix the executive director's salary ...

...(A) The attorney general may prepare public awareness programs that are designed to educate potential victims of violations of section 2905.32 of the Revised Code and their families of the risks of becoming a victim of a violation of that section. The attorney general may prepare these programs with assistance from the department of health, the department of mental health and addiction services, the department of job...

...As used in this section, "county grantee" has the same meaning as in section 5101.21 of the Revised Code. Each board of county commissioners and each other county grantee of the county shall jointly enter into one or more written grant agreements with the director of job and family services or the director of children and youth in accordance with section 5101.21 of the Revised Code. The board of county commissione...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3313.60 of the Revised Code, "evidence-based" means a program or practice that does either of the following: (1) Demonstrates a rationale based on high-quality research findings or positive evaluation that such a program or practice is likely to improve relevant outcomes and includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of the program or practice; (2) Has a statisticall...

...Three years after the date a birth defects information system is implemented pursuant to section 3705.30 of the Revised Code, and annually thereafter, the department of health shall prepare a report regarding the birth defects information system. The department shall file the report with the governor, the president and minority leader of the senate, the speaker and minority leader of the house of representatives, the...

...The department of job and family services or department of children and youth may enter into contracts to maximize federal revenue without the expenditure of state money. In selecting private entities with which to contract, the applicable department shall engage in a request for proposals process. The applicable department, subject to the approval of the controlling board, may also directly enter into contracts with...

...If the department of children and youth sanctions a public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency, it shall take every possible precaution to ensure that any foster children that have been placed by the agency under sanction are not unnecessarily removed from the certified foster homes in which they reside.

...(A)(1) The director of job and family services shall, not later than nine months after September 13, 2016, the effective date of H.B. 50 of the 131st general assembly, submit an amendment to the state plan required by 42 U.S.C. 671 to the United States secretary of health and human services to implement 42 U.S.C. 675(8) to make federal payments for foster care under Title IV-E directly to, or on behalf of, any emanci...

...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...

...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...

...The director of job and family services and the director of children and youth may adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code establishing reporting requirements for family services duties and workforce development activities. If the directors adopt the rules, the directors shall adopt the rules as if they were internal management rules and, before adopting the rules, give the public an opportu...

...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.