County Leaders, Providers Tell Senate Health Panel the State Must Address Child-Placement Crisis
County commissioners, child-welfare providers and the Public Children Services Association urged the Senate to preserve funding and policy changes in HB96 to address a statewide placement and treatment capacity crisis for children in custody.
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Jack Everson, representing the County Commissioners Association of Ohio, told senators counties are facing “a statewide crisis in our child welfare system” driven not by the number of children in care but by the increased complexity of needs and sharply rising placement costs.
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