Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:2 - Division of Social Services › Chapter 5101:2-42 - Substitute Care › Section 5101:2-42-19.2 - Requirements for provision of independent living services to young adults who have emancipated

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Upon request,
			 each public children services
			 agency (PCSA) is to provide services and support
			 to former foster care recipients, who have
			 emancipated from PCSA custody on or after the age of
			 eighteen from a substitute care placement, until their twenty-first birthday
			 pursuant to 45 CFR
			 1355.20, (2012).
(B)
								A PCSA is to evaluate the strengths and needs with the
			 young adult, assess the young adult's own efforts to achieve self-sufficiency
			 and availability of community resources.
(C)
			 Based on the evaluation required by paragraph (B) of this
			 rule, the PCSA and the young adult is to develop a mutually agreed upon plan in
			 Ohio statewide automated child welfare information
			 system (Ohio SACWIS) for the
			 provision of services.  A copy
			 of the young adult services plan
			 is to be
			 signed by the young adult and a representative of the agency.
(D) The PCSA is
			 to include or update contact
			 information in the plan in Ohio SACWIS on any of
			 the young adult's connections with significant others, such
			 as former resource families, friends, adult supporters, mentors and extended family members.
			 The contact information is to include names, addresses and phone numbers,
			 whenever known and is to to be documented in Ohio
			 SACWIS.
(E) The PCSA
			 is to
			 make available the following independent living services to young adults aged
			 eighteen to twenty-one including, but not limited to:
(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.
(7) Health education and risk
			 prevention.
(8) Mentoring including
			 being matched with a screened and trained adult
			 for a one-on-one relationship involving the two meeting on a regular basis.
			 Mentoring can be short-term, but may also support the development of a
			 long-term relationship.
(9)
			 Supervision services for a young adult living in a supervised independent
			 living arrangement including a young adult living independently under a
			 supervised arrangement that is paid for or provided by the county agency.
(10) Room and board financial assistance
			 including room and board financial assistance that is a payment paid for or
			 provided by the county agency for room and board, rent deposits, utilities, and
			 other household start-up expenses.
(11) Education financial assistance
			 such as a payment paid for or
			 provided by the county agency for education or training, allowances to purchase
			 textbooks, uniforms, computers, and other educational supplies; tuition
			 assistance; scholarships; payment for educational preparation and support
			 services, and payment for GED and other educational tests. The financial
			 assistance also includes vouchers for tuition or vocational education or
			 tuition waiver programs paid for or provided by the county agency.
(12) Other financial assistance including
			 direct cash assistance for any other payments made or
			 provided by the county agency to help the young adult
			 gain independence.