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County officials, child‑welfare providers urge Senate to fund regional child wellness campuses and stabilize placement rates
Summary
County commissioners and Public Children Services Association leaders warned the Senate that Ohio faces a treatment and placement crisis for youth in custody and urged restoration of House funding for regional child wellness campuses and rate transparency in HB 96.
County officials, child welfare agency leaders and private providers told the Senate Health Committee that Ohio is facing a statewide placement and treatment crisis for children in public custody and asked the Senate to preserve policy and funding in House Bill 96 designed to create regional short‑term crisis stabilization centers and bring transparency to placement rates.
The issue: Speakers said counties are paying rapidly rising placement costs and that counties cannot refuse court orders to take custody. Jack Everson of the County Commissioners Association of Ohio and Angela Sasse of the…
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