Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5101:9 - ODJFS Practices › Chapter 5101:9-6 - Allocations › Section 5101:9-6-21 - PCSA accreditation subsidies

Current through all
			 regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Within available funds, ODJFS will offer
			 subsidies to PCSAs to seek or maintain accreditation from the council on
			 accreditation (COA). The purpose of such subsidies is to partially offset the
			 costs incurred to secure or maintain accreditation.
(B) This subsidy will be awarded to a PCSA
			 that is accredited, becomes accredited, or that joins an ODJFS sponsored
			 accreditation class of other PCSAs seeking initial accreditation. For a PSCA
			 that is already accredited, the subsidy will be awarded to the PCSA
			 immediately, and will continue to be awarded in each subsequent state fiscal
			 year thereafter, provided the PCSA maintains such accreditation. For a PCSA
			 that becomes accredited after the effective date of this rule, the subsidy will
			 be awarded to the PCSA in the state fiscal year (SFY) in which the PCSA
			 receives accreditation, and will continue to be awarded to the PCSA in each
			 subsequent state fiscal year thereafter, provided the PCSA maintains such
			 accreditation. For a PCSA that seeks initial accreditation, the subsidy will be
			 awarded to the PCSA in the state fiscal year in which the PCSA joins an ODJFS
			 sponsored accreditation class, and will continue to be awarded to an PCSA in
			 each of the next two state fiscal years thereafter. The receipt of any further
			 subsidy thereafter, is contingent on the PCSA obtaining accreditation, and such
			 subsidy will be governed by the procedures for the same as noted above.
(C) Accreditation subsidies will
			 be awarded in the form of a supplemental increase to a PCSAs state child
			 protection allocation (SCPA). Accreditation subsidies can be used for any
			 purpose or cost otherwise allowable for the SCPA. The full amount of the
			 accreditation subsidy will be included in one of the SCPA quarterly advances
			 made to the PCSA. For accounting purposes at ODJFS, funds related to the
			 accreditation subsidy will be considered the first funds spent against all
			 costs claimed to the SCPA by the PCSA.
(D) In the event a PCSA removes itself from
			 an accreditation class, does not obtain accreditation within four years of
			 joining an accreditation class, fails to secure renewal of its existing
			 accreditation, or has its existing accreditation revoked or otherwise
			 terminated, the PCSAs accreditation subsidy will be terminated for the state
			 fiscal year in which such an event transpires, and ODJFS will further impose a
			 penalty equal to fifty per cent of the prior fiscal year's subsidy. Penalties
			 and terminated subsidies will be recovered from the PCSA in the form of a
			 reduction in the PCSAs current SCPA.
(E) In the event funds are not available to
			 fully finance all of the accreditation subsidies awarded under this rule, ODJFS
			 will give priority to funding accreditation subsidies for PCSAs seeking
			 accreditation. In the event funds are not available to fully finance the
			 accreditation subsidies for PCSAs seeking accreditation, ODJFS will not provide
			 any accreditation subsidies.
(F)
			 Accreditation subsidies awarded under this rule will be in addition to such
			 other in-kind supports and services ODJFS may provide to assist PCSAs in
			 obtaining and maintaining accreditation.
(G) ODJFS will determine the subsidy levels
			 provided under this rule as follows:
(1) If
			 the PCSA's total child welfare costs were less than four million dollars, the
			 subsidy is nine thousand five hundred dollars;
(2) If the PCSA's total child welfare costs
			 are four million dollars or more but less than twenty million dollars, the
			 subsidy is twelve thousand five hundred dollars;
(3) If the PCSA's total child welfare costs
			 were twenty million dollars or more but less than fifty-five million dollars,
			 the subsidy is thirty-three thousand dollars; and
(4) If the PCSA's total child welfare costs
			 were fifty-five million dollars or more, the subsidy is sixty thousand dollars.