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Big Brothers Big Sisters warns funding cut would leave more than 1,000 Ohio children without mentors
Summary
Big Brothers Big Sisters told the Ohio Senate Finance Committee that removal of $1 million per year in TANF support from substitute House Bill 96 would halt creation of more than 500 mentoring relationships annually and leave over 2,000 children on waiting lists statewide.
Elizabeth Martinx, a representative of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio, urged the Ohio Senate Finance Committee on HB 96 to restore state TANF funding that the organization says supported mentoring statewide since 2014.
"Without these dollars, over a thousand children statewide go without a mentor over the next 2 years," Martinx told Chair Serino and members of the committee, saying the DeWine administration included $1,000,000 per fiscal year in its budget but the House cut the TANF funding in half and the Senate…
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