Sometimes all it takes is one idea, one spark of inspiration and the vision of someone who cares to bring a community together to help those in need.
Cuyahoga County's S.T.A.R.T. program, which helps drug-addicted mothers and their babies, marked its 20th anniversary by celebrating people who reclaimed their lives due to the program's guidance.
Gov. John Kasich’s $67 billion budget got ripped apart and put back together by House Republicans, who stripped out his key tax reforms and put more money into other areas.
Children services agencies have faced a heavier burden, more children falling into their care
as parents die from overdoses or prove unfit because of their drug use. The House plan
recognizes the problem with an additional $30 million for the biennium.
Earlier this year, the executive directors for the Lake and Geauga Job and Family Services departments expressed frustration over Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget.
House Republicans want to double down on fighting Ohio’s opioid epidemic, pumping $170.6 million over the next two years into drug prevention and treatment.
Roughly $130 million of the additional $170 million in the budget proposal will pay for transitional housing, support for family members caring for the children of addicts and funding for child protective services.
Just a month after announcing a program to help children in families impacted by drug abuse, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced expansion of the START program to include Adams County and Brown County.
Kasich and members of the legislature have said the addiction menace is one of the most critical issues facing Ohio. They should prove it in their budget.
The Public Children Services Association of Ohio reports that in 2015 (the most recent
numbers available), 28 percent of children taken into custody had parents who were using
opiates at the time of removal. The likelihood is, last year was worse.
Homelessness is dangerous, especially for kids. They are more vulnerable to become victims of crime, they're more vulnerable to disease, and they're more likely to become victims of human trafficking. Homeless kids do worse in school than their peers and they have a harder time developing social skills. These effects of homelessness can last a lifetime.
The Public Children Services Association of Ohio is distributing the grants for each of the 18 counties enrolled. The four counties later added were ...
Catherine Hill, director of Athens County Children Services, the agency that will oversee the Ohio START program locally, said Tuesday that her ...
If there's no required education on addiction for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade by January 2018, Attorney General Mike DeWine said he would make it mandatory if he's governor. Since about half of the children in foster care throughout the state are there because one or both parents are addicted to drugs, DeWine announced a program in March to help those families.
Highland County Job and Family Services Director Katie Adams told county commissioners Wednesday that there are currently 101 children in the foster system in Highland County, costing the county $1.9 million annually for foster home placement.
The Public Children Services Association of Ohio is administering the grants on behalf of each county. The four that joined this week had sat out the ...
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that a pilot program to serve families harmed by parental opioid abuse in southern Ohio will expand to serve residents in four additional counties, bringing the total number of counties participating in the program to 18.
According the the Public Children Services Association of Ohio, 78 of the state's 88 counties hand-counted the number of minors removed from the ...
The Public Children Services Association of Ohio will administer both grants. The Lawrence County Department of Job and Family Services will ...
The Wood County Children's Services will have two new employees, which they hope will alleviate some of the stress in the department. This past year, the organization took in almost 200 more children, many of them because of the opioid epidemic in the county.
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