The Ohio Department of Medicaid took an important step Thursday toward its July rollout of a revamped and reformed Medicaid system, announcing the 20 organizations that would launch the OhioRISE program, short for Resilience through Integrated Systems and Excellence.
The Scioto County Children Services Board is facing a crisis. The agency has 400 kids in care, just 24 foster families in the county, and is already facing a $2 million shortfall for 2022.
Scioto County Commissioners approved up to $2 million to go toward Scioto County Children Protective Services (CPS). During a lengthy Scioto County Commissioners meeting Thursday, the Commissioners discussed with CPS board members their need for 2 million dollars.
Looking out for children when you’re the person effectively determining the course of their lives can be more than stressful. The task can push many caseworkers for children to the brink. The children they’re trying to help often have reached the brink.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is leading a group of states urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Cuyahoga County, the city of Cleveland, and hundreds of other local governments around the state and country against a global consulting firm that boosted sales of opioids.
Ohio's Children Services agencies say they are becoming the destination for young people with all kinds of intensive or "high-acuity" needs. A new report found nearly one in four kids entered Children Services custody in 2021 due primarily to mental illness, developmental disability or as a diversion from the juvenile justice system.
For the last 17 years, the National Council of Negro Women’s (NCNW) Dayton Section has been collecting teddy bears for children in Montgomery County, and every year it gets more special. More than 300 teddy bears will go to kids within Montgomery County Children Services in 2022.
After a Columbus mother abandoned her toddler at a Speedway earlier this month, NBC4 asked area authorities: What should desperate parents do if they just can’t cope?
With 400 kids in foster care and only 24 licensed foster homes in Scioto County, many wonder why the county can’t just build an old-fashioned children’s home. As appealing as the idea may sound on paper, building a children’s home would be difficult for several reasons.
On the heels of the bipartisan passage of Children Services Reform legislation in both the Ohio House and Senate, the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Phil Plummer says more work needs to be done. H.B. 4 is in honor of 10-year-old Dayton boy Takoda Collins, who died in 2019 after investigators say he suffered years of horrific abuse.
