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Big Brothers Big Sisters warns TANF cut will leave more than 1,000 Ohio children without mentors
Summary
Big Brothers Big Sisters told the Senate Finance Committee the program has created hundreds of mentoring relationships with $1 million per year in TANF funds and said recent budget cuts would remove that support, leaving more than a thousand children statewide without mentors over the next two years.
Elizabeth Martinex, a representative of Big Brothers Big Sisters, urged the Ohio Senate Finance Committee to restore funding cut from the state budget that has supported mentoring statewide.
"Without these dollars, over a thousand children statewide go without a mentor over the next 2 years," Elizabeth Martinex said, testifying that the nonprofit has used $1,000,000 per fiscal year in TANF funding since 2014 to create more than 500 new…
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