During the Governor's second of two Ohio Summits on Children, foster care youth and alumni shared their insights during roundtables on:
1. Funding
- Leveraging local funds
- Coping with the escalating cost of services
- Flexible funding
- Countering TANF reductions
- Establishing a shared vision
- Developing/maintaining a continuum of care in this economic climate
- Measuring outcomes/data
- Connecting data systems
- Reducing staff turnover
- Access to services
- Placement prevention/intensive home-based services
- Early screening for mental health and developmental needs
- Application of trauma-informed care
- Increasing graduation rates and academic performance
- Engaging youth who do not adapt to traditional education
- Engaging families and building community partnerships
- Creating safe schools and healthy communities
- Supporting children with autism spectrum disorders and their families
- Developing a high-functioning Family and Children First Council
- Engaging all partners
- Integrating Summit and HB 289 plans
- Developing leadership
- Access to health care
- Timely screening and coordination of care
- Teen pregnancy
- Prevention and prenatal care
- Supporting kinship programs
- Ensuring the sufficient availability of foster homes
- Short-term residential/step-down care
- Timely adoption of children in permanent custody
- Involvement of fathers
- Parenting skill development
- Parent advocacy/family-driven plans
- Families separated by incarceration
- Truancy
- Violent youth crime
- Alternatives to incarceration/detention
- Disproportionate minority contact
- Youth employment/WIA
- Housing
- Health care needs
- Post-secondary education
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