Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:2 - Division of Social Services › Chapter 5101:2-42 - Substitute Care › Section 5101:2-42-19 - Requirements for the provision of independent living services to youth in custody

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Independent living services
			 are to
			 be provided to each youth in the custody of a public children services agency
			 (PCSA) or private child placing agency (PCPA) as
			 developmentally appropriate, no later than the age of fourteen for normalcy and
			 practical skills
								 to prepare them for the transition from agency custody to
			 self-sufficiency.
(B)
								The PCSA or PCPA is to provide and explain the JFS
			 01677 "Foster Youth Rights Handbook" pursuant to paragraph (A) of this rule and
			 paragraph (Q) in rule
			 5101:2-42-90 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(C) If a PCSA
			 or PCPA is providing independent living services
			 to an eligible unmarried minor female who is pregnant or has a child and is
			 part of an "Ohio Works First" (OWF) assistance group, the PCSA
			 or PCPA is to
								 inform the local county department of job and
			 family services (CDJFS) of the PCSA or PCPA's
			 involvement with the family in order to ensure coordination of
			 services.
(D) The PCSA or PCPA
			 is to
			 conduct a life skills assessment on each youth in agency custody
								no later
			 than age fourteen. The
			 assessment is to be completed no later than sixty days after
			 the youth's fourteenth birthday or sixty days after the youth enters agency
			 custody, if the youth is fourteen or older. A life skills assessment
			 is to
			 establish the need for independent living services identified in paragraph
			 (E) of
			 this rule. The life skills assessment is
			 to be completed with documented
			 input from the youth, the youth's caregiver, and the youth's
			 caseworker.
(E) The PCSA or PCPA
			 is to
			 determine which independent living services are  applicable, or not needed based
			 on the assessment referenced in paragraph
			 (D) of this
			 rule and may include, but not be limited to the following:
(1) Academic support.
(2)
			 Post secondary educational support.
(3)
			 Career preparation.
(4) Employment programs or vocational
			 training.
(5) Budget and financial
			 management.
(6)
			 Housing, education and home management training.
(7) Health education and risk
			 prevention.
(8) Family support and healthy
			 relationship and marriage education including
			 education and information about safe and stable families, healthy marriages,
			 spousal communication, parenting, responsible fatherhood, childcare skills,
			 teen parenting and domestic and family violence prevention.
(9) Mentoring including being matched with a
			 screened and trained adult for a one-on-one relationship that involves the two
			 meeting on a regular basis. Mentoring can be short-term, but may also support
			 the development of a long-term relationship.
(10) Supervision services for a youth placed
			 in a supervised independent living arrangement including a youth who is living
			 independently under a supervised arrangement paid for or provided by the county
			 agency.
(11) Room and board
			 financial assistance for rent, deposits,
			 utilities, and other household start-up expenses in
			 accordance with all of the following:
(a)
										The PCSA may only
			 use up to thirty per cent of the Chafee federal independent living allocation
			 for room and board pursuant to rule
			 5101:9-6-35 of the
			 Administrative Code which may include, but is not limited, to assistance with
			 rent and initial rental deposit pursuant to
			 42U.S.C.
			 677,(2018).
(b)
										The PCSA is not
			 to use the Chafee allocation or TANF independent living funds for room and
			 board pursuant to rules
			 5101:9-6-35 and
			 5101:9-6-08.6 of the
			 Administrative Code for youth under the age of eighteen and young adults that
			 have reached their twenty-first birthday.
(12)
									Financial
			 assistance including direct cash assistance, or other payments made or provided
			 by the county agency to help the youth gain independence.