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Big Brothers Big Sisters warns TANF cuts would leave more than 1,000 Ohio children without mentors
Summary
A Big Brothers Big Sisters representative told the Ohio Senate Finance Committee that proposed cuts to TANF funding in HB 96 would reduce statewide mentoring capacity and leave over 1,000 children without mentors across two years.
Elizabeth Martinez, speaking on behalf of Big Brothers Big Sisters State colleagues, told the Ohio Senate Finance Committee on HB 96 that the organization’s $1 million-per-fiscal-year TANF allocation has supported more than 500 new mentoring relationships annually since 2014 and helped the program serve more than 6,000 children across Ohio. Martinez said the DeWine administration’s executive budget included $1 million per fiscal year but that the House cut TANF funding by half and the Senate finance committee…
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