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Counties and child-welfare providers push Senate to fund regional crisis beds and review foster care rates
Summary
County commissioners, the Public Children's Services Association of Ohio and private foster-care providers urged the Senate to retain House funding in HB 96 for regional short-term crisis stabilization centers and to pursue transparent, data-driven placement rates for foster and residential care.
County commissioners, public children services agency leaders and private foster-care providers told the Senate Health Committee that Ohio faces a statewide placement crisis for children with complex behavioral needs and urged the Senate to maintain House funding and policy changes in HB 96.
Jack Everson, president of the Ross County Board of Commissioners, described steep cost increases for placements and said counties are bearing nearly three-quarters of placement costs. “Placement costs have increased all across the settings and now have out placed inflation,” he said, citing…
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