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County Leaders, Providers Tell Senate Health Panel the State Must Address Child-Placement Crisis
Summary
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.
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.
“Placement costs have increased all across the settings and now have outpaced inflation,” Everson said, citing a 68% increase in room-and-board costs over five years and higher per-diem charges for foster, group and residential placements.
Christina Massey, executive vice president of Buckeye Ranch, told the committee that Ohio is one of nine states with county-run child…
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