Learn more about the budget and policy changes in HB 483 and find out ways to take action. With the legislative break coming up, this presentation includes resources to help you have conversations with your state lawmakers while they are back in your district.

1. Phone Number: 213-416-1560
Guest Access Code: 198 678 477
Mid-Biennium
Review Update

2. WILL PETRIK
State Director
Advocates for Ohio’s Future

3. Featuring:
Gayle Channing Tenenbaum
Director of Policy & Governmental Affairs, Public Children
Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO)
Joel Potts
Executive Director, Ohio Job & Family Services Directors’
Association (OJFSDA)
Katie Kelly
Executive Director, groundwork
Zach Schiller
Research Director, Policy Matters Ohio
THE MID-BIENNIUM REVIEW

4. ADVOCATES FOR OHIO’S FUTURE
WHO WE ARE
A statewide coalition of over 450
organizations working together to
promotes health and human service
budget and policy solutions so that all
Ohioans live better lives.

5. • Strengthen Ohio with Healthy
Communities
• Create More and Better Jobs for
Ohioans
• Make Ohio More Competitive with
Great Public Services
ADVOCATES FOR OHIO’S FUTURE
OUR FOCUS

6. MID-BIENNIUM REVIEW TIMELINE
Mar 11 – Kasich Administration releases MBR proposal (House Bill
472 – HB 472).
Mar 18 – Speaker Batchelder announces HB 472 will be split into
14 different bills and assigned to 11 different committees and
subcommittees.
Mar 23 – Columbus Dispatch reports Republican legislative leaders
might wait until after the November election before acting on Gov.
John Kasich’s proposed tax package
Apr 9 – Ohio House of Representatives passes nine bills related to
the MBR
Early May – Hearings for the MBR start in the Senate

7. Director of Policy & Governmental
Affairs, PCSAO
THE MBR AND
CHILD WELFARE
Gayle Channing-
Tenenbaum

8. • The General Assembly should appropriate an
additional $20 million for SFY 2015 in the 523 State
Child Protection Allocation line item, as follows:
• $3.2 million to match federal capped Title IV-B ESSA funds to
strengthen families and capped Title IV-E Chafee funds serve
youth aging out of foster care
• $12.6 million (75% of remaining funds) to 88 county agencies
according to current formula
• $4.2 million (25% of remaining) to hardship counties
IMPROVING CHILD OUTCOMES WITH SHARED
RESOURCES

9. Why?
• Ohio ranks 50th in the nation in state investment for
child welfare.
• Ohio is highest in the nation for local child welfare
investment, but funding is extremely inequitable.
• Local child welfare agencies have suffered a 20% loss
of scarce state funds in the past few years, including
cuts to the State Child Protection Allocation and state
portion of Adoption Assistance.
IMPROVING CHILD OUTCOMES WITH SHARED
RESOURCES

10. IMPROVING CHILD OUTCOMES WITH SHARED
RESOURCES
How will this help?
• County agencies will select from a menu of strategies
and technical
• Counties must abide by a permissive local
Maintenance of Effort
• Ohio should also allow indefinite/extended time
frames for child welfare
• “Hardship” can be defined in a number of ways to
help identify those counties in most need of state aid.

11. From the
Ohio
Department
of Job and
Family
Services

12. From the
Ohio
Department
of Job and
Family
Services
85% will stay
longer than
30 days
50% will stay
longer than
300 days

13. From the
Ohio
Department
of Job and
Family
Services
70% of Non-substance
abuse will stay longer
than 80 days.
70% of Substance
abuse kids will stay
longer than 110 days

14. IMPROVING CHILD OUTCOMES WITH SHARED
RESOURCES
Interested Parties
This proposal was developed by a special PCSAO committee of county children
services agency executives and fiscal experts. We have worked closely with:
• ODJFS
• County Commissioners Association of Ohio
• Ohio Job and Family Services Directors Association
• Advocates for Ohio’s Future
We also have worked to educate other child- and family-serving entities,
including:
• Ohio Family Care Association
• Ohio Grandparent-Kinship Coalition
• Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies
• Ohio Adoption Planning Group
• Overcoming Hurdles In Ohio Youth Advisory Board

15. Do all children deserve,
safety, permanency and
well being regardless of
where they live?

16. Joel Potts
Executive Director,
Ohio Job & Family Services Directors'
Association
THE MBR AND
ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES

17. ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES
• State currently invests $500,000
• 50 counties receive less than $2,000 annually
• Counties invest $20 million per year in the APS
program
• MBR proposes $10 million investment
• Most state has ever invested in program -
$3.35 Million in 1997

18. Katie Kelly
Executive Director,
groundWork
THE MBR AND
EARLY CHILDHOOD

19. CONTINUOUS AUTHORIZATION FOR CHILD CARE
• Legislative change would offer 13 weeks of
“continuous authorization” for families enrolled in
child care with a temporary change in their work or
training status
Goals of this change:
• Allow children to remain in a stable early learning
environment during temporary changes in parents’
work status, as well as provide support for parents to
reenter the workforce

20. PRESUMPTIVE ELIGIBILITY FOR CHILD CARE
• Legislative change would allow parents to receive
presumptive eligibility for child care from the time an
application is submitted to the County to the time of
certification
Goal of this change:
• To allow parents to secure a child care provider for a
child more quickly after a job or training position is
obtained

21. Zach Schiller
Policy Director,
Policy Matters Ohio
THE MBR AND
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

22. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
• As introduced, House Bill 483 would have required
that new applications and continuing weekly claims
for unemployment compensation (UC) be done over
the Internet, with limited exemptions
• Half of Ohioans make their initial application for UC
benefits on the phone
• 150,000 Ohio households are not served by
broadband, and 300,000 adults cannot go online to
look for jobs because they lack the necessary digital
literacy skills, according to Connect Ohio

23. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION
• Online-only registration for initial claims or follow-up
job-matching led to thousands of claimants being
denied benefits in Florida and Pennsylvania
• ODJFS is implementing other UC changes for
claimants – we should wait to make sure they work
before adding more requirements
Next Steps
• The finance committee deleted this mandate, but it is
expected to resurface

24. TALKING POINTS TO
STRENGTHEN FAMILIES AND
COMMUNITIES

25. Talking Points
• I’m working to ensure that Ohio is a place where everyone can
participate in our economy and where working Ohioans have
what they need to support themselves and their families.
• Ohio’s families and communities need our support. Too many
Ohioans lack essential human resources - things like food,
housing, health care, education, child care, access to treatment,
and transportation - that they need to prosper and live better
lives.
• I believe Ohio can be a great place for all Ohioans to live and
work, and we can get our state and our economy back on track by
making bold investments in families and our communities.

26. NEXT STEPS: WHAT CAN YOU
DO TO STRENGTHEN FAMILIES
AND COMMUNITIES?

27. Act Now!
• Make thank you calls to House leaders.
• Meet with your State Senator over the break.
Share your ideas to help strengthen your
community.
• Review our “effective legislative visits” webinar
here.
• Don’t forget to send thank you’s and let us know
how your visit went.

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Future Today!
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29. QUESTIONS?

30. Advocates for Ohio’s Future
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Will Petrik | 614-602-2464
wpetrik@advocatesforohio.org
Gail Clendenin | 614-602-2463
gclendenin@advocatesforohio.org