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A quick rundown of Ohio child protection news this week
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Weekly Update for June 19, 2017
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Association Updates
Call for award nominations
The deadline for the 2017 PCSAO award nominations has been extended to this Friday, June 23. Every year, we celebrate stars and champions at the PCSAO annual conference. The theme for this year’s conference is “Everyday Heroes,” inspired by children services caseworkers and others who dedicate their career and life to protecting children, strengthening families and advocating on their behalf. PCSAO is inviting all public children services agencies to submit award nominations. The award categories include:
- Rising Up and Moving On (youth)
- Family of the Year (birth, kin, foster, adoptive)
- Child Protection Supervisor of the Year
- Child Protection Caseworker of the Year
- Child Protection Support Staff of the Year
- Journalist of the Year
Click here to download the award nominations. Please feel free to forward the information to your appropriate staff who can help us find these Everyday Heroes who deserve recognition. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact our office. Learn more about the conference.
PCSAO welcomes Fawn Gadel
PCSAO is excited to announce that Fawn Gadel will be joining PCSAO as the Director of Ohio START. Fawn has been the Associate Director for the Family and Youth Law Center at Capital University for the past three years, where she served as the pilot coordinator for the Ohio Permanency Roundtables Initiative; as a project manager for the Supreme Court Subcommittee on Responding to Child Abuse, Neglect and Dependency project; and assisted with the Restorative Justice project. She began at FYLaw in 2009 as a staff attorney. She has also interned at ODJFS Office of Legal Services and externed at Ohio CASA. Fawn has a JD with a concentration in children and family law. She is a perfect fit for directing PCSAO’s new Ohio START grant from the Attorney General’s Office and will work well with Ohio START’s program manager, Marla Himmeger. We look forward to her joining the PCSAO team on July 10. Learn more about Ohio START.
Rule update: Bridges rules now in clearance
CCN 8063 New Rules: Bridges Eligibility, Termination and Appeals Rules are posted for Clearance Comments through 06/26/17. This rule package includes 3 rules. Click here to view and comment on the rules.
OCWTP expands trainer understanding of CAPMIS
The Steering Committee of the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program met June 14 for its monthly meeting. Discussion and action focused primarily on OCWTP’s efforts to ensure that all trainers have the most up-to-date understanding of CAPMIS so that appropriate concepts can be integrated into training. Other topics included training system and evaluation data, CQI efforts around mandated training, and updates on the new state fiscal/contract year. The Steering Committee meets next on August 9.
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Announcements and Resources
PCSA executive transition: Hamilton County JFS
Hamilton County JFS has promoted its long-time manager, Margie Weaver, to be the Clinical Director. Please join us in congratulating Margie.
Bridges Request for Grant Application
ODJFS released a Request for Grant Application for the new extended Title IV-E foster care program, called Bridges, on June 9. ODJFS is looking to enter into agreements with a maximum of five grantees that will commence upon notification of all grant and funding approvals. The agreement will cover the period from August 1, 2017, through June 30, 2019, with the possibility of two-year renewals. Deadline for applicants to submit applications to ODJFS is July 14 at 3p.m. The grant opportunity can be accessed here.
Collaborative Assessment & Management of Suicidality (CAMS) training
Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation (OSPF), in collaboration with the Licking County Suicide Prevention Coalition, is offering a training for mental health professionals serving youth and young adults (10-24) in the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS). This training will provide counselors, psychologists, and social workers with knowledge, skills, and practice in treating patients’ suicide risk. CAMS training is being offered to all Ohio mental health professionals free of charge through funding received by SAMHSA GLS Grant SM062894. Participants will only be charged $30 to cover the cost of CEUs, lunch, and registration processing. Register for this opportunity to learn how to safely recognize, respond to, and treat patients’ suicidality, while receiving 11 CEUs.
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Child Protection in the News
- June 14 – Children of addicts tax Portage County agencies' resources – Record-Courier
As the opioid and heroin epidemic sweeps across Ohio, local agencies like Portage County Job and Family Services are seeing a dramatic influx in "secondhand victims" -- the children of addicts.
- June 13 – Ohio Shows Progress in Child Well-Being – Public News Service
Child advocates in Ohio say they are excited to see improvement in an annual snapshot of child well-being. Released Tuesday, the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book ranks the Buckeye State 24th in the nation, up from 26th last year.
- June 12 – Three Ohio toddlers suffer opioid overdoses in one week – Dayton Daily News
Three Ohio toddlers have suffered opiate overdoses in the last week, adding more tragedy to the state’s growing opioid epidemic. An Akron 1-year-old overdosed on pills and was revived at a nearby hospital on Tuesday, according to the Akron Beacon-Journal.
- June 10 – Opiate crisis increasing trauma for kids – Youngstown Vindicator
Because of the opiate crisis, children statewide are staying in foster care 19 percent longer than they did in 2010.Also, 62 percent more relatives were caring for children in 2016 than in 2010 across Ohio, according to the Public Children Services Association of Ohio.
- June 9 – Trumbull kids placed with relatives up 33% due to opiate crisis – Vindy.com
Because of the opiate crisis, children statewide are staying in foster care 19 percent longer than they did in 2010. Also, 62 percent more relatives were caring for children in 2016 than in 2010 across Ohio.
- June 8 – Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine tells Congress about Ohio's opioid problems (videos) – Cleveland.com
Declining economic opportunities and increased access to addictive painkillers have combined to ignite an opioid crisis that kills more than eight Ohioans every day, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told a congressional committee Thursday.
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June 29 | Executive Membership Meeting
June 30 | Executive Membership Meeting
July 6 | Rules Review Committee Meeting
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June is Fatherhood Month:
“I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I’ll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. And one of these days, maybe we’ll raise a perfect Caan.”
~Actor James Caan
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