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Counties and child-welfare providers urge Senate to fund placement solutions and study foster-rate changes in HB 96
Summary
County commissioners, the Public Children's Services Association of Ohio and private foster providers told the Senate Health Committee Ohio is in a treatment-and-placement crisis for children in custody, with counties facing rapidly rising placement costs and scarce beds.
Ross County Commissioner Jack Everson and other county and agency leaders told the Senate Health Committee the state faces a sustained placement crisis in child welfare. Everson and Jeremy Ratcliffe described rising placement costs and scarce beds; Everson said counties pay nearly three-quarters of placement costs and provided county-level examples of rapidly escalating expenses.
The Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO) said county public children services agencies have had to buy cots, provide 24/7 supervision, and in some places pay…
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