On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, ACTION Ohio Communications Chair Lisa Dickson will share two virtual breakout sessions during a training session hosted by the Children's Defense Fund-Ohio.
Here is a link to her presentation.
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On Monday, April 14, 2025, ACTION Ohio Communications Chair Lisa Dickson met virtually with President Scott DiMauro and Vice President Jeff Wensing of the Ohio Education Association.
She shared the OHIO YAB and ACTION Ohio's focus on:
1. ESSA Liaisons for K12 students.
2. Foster to College Scholarships - This provision includes both a "last money in" scholarship to support students with a foster care history and establishing one or more full-time statewide School Foster Care Liaisons to support Ohio’s 611 individual school districts.
3. Preserving the federal Pell Grant
She also shared about our ongoing partnership with the Ohio Department of Education.
On Friday, April 11, 2025, ACTION Ohio Communications Chair Lisa Dickson participated in a virtual meeting with
The Federal Pell Grant program is the largest program providing need-based grant aid to postsecondary students. Pell Grants have long been considered the foundation of federal aid for financially needy undergraduate students. Pell Grant funding doesn’t just increase enrollment and help students afford college, it also increases completion rates.
The Pell Grant program is expected to run out of reserves by the end of this year (2025) and is expected to face a $71 billion to $111 billion ten-year shortfall, based on data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
The Pell Grant is only allowed to be in shortfall for one year before the awarded amount is automatically cut in order to reduce the cumulative shortfall to zero. Congress will need to act sometime before Sept. 30, the start of fiscal year 2026. Here is a link to Congressional proposals regarding this provision.
As follow up to this meeting, we are reaching out to:
On Sunday, April 6, 2025, ACTION Ohio volunteers Lisa Dickson and Kristin Camac spent the morning at Congregation Beth Tikvah, helping assemble Culinary Essentials. These will be some of the raffle prizes during the 2025 Leadership and Life Skills Summit for current and former foster youth, ages 14-24. Many thanks to Marla Moskowitz, Tanya Shats and Temple Beth Tikvah.
On March 5, 2025, Jaleshia Brown, Adam Hassan and Michael Outrich provided in-person testimony regarding House Bill 96.
This is a video link to their testimony.
Additional written testimonials were provided by:
