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• Agency administration - clerical, fiscal, records, information technology • Agency operations - occupancy costs, technology, supplies, etc. • Adoption subsidies - ongoing financial commitments to families that have adopted children from foster care • Building A Better Future program - parent peer support program • Case review - helps staff and families make the best decisions possible for children • Child welfare contracts - mentoring, counseling, etc. • Client supports - bus tokens, gas cards, utility assistance, rent, beds • Client food, clothing and hygiene products • Day care - for foster care families and kinship providers • Family visits - provides a secure venue for parents to visit with their children while they are living apart • Foster care & adoption recruitment - reaches out to the community to recruit new foster and adoptive families • Health Services - provides health screening and monitoring of children in care • Human Resources - hiring, training and managing the agency personnel needs Paid for by Committee for Children, Suzette Cowell, Treasurer. P.O. Box 2202, Toledo, OH 43604 419-392-9597 • [email protected] What this levy pays for • Independent Living - preparing youth age 14+ to emancipate from foster care • Intake - accepting reports of suspected child abuse and neglect from members of the community • Investigations and Assessments - caseworkers investigating suspected abuse and neglect • Legal - staff attorneys represent LCCS and children in Juvenile Court • Licensing and training of foster parents - preservice and ongoing training for foster parents; foster home certification and recertification • Ongoing services - ongoing case management • Parent education - teaches parents the skills they need to care for their children • Post adoption services - ongoing support to adoptive families • Post emancipation services - supports youth 18 - 21 who have emancipated from LCCS • Security - trained guards provide building security and supervise Level 1 visits • Transportation - staff transport children to visits with parents, appointments Issue 9, the 1.85 mill renewal issue, will provide more than one-quarter of Lucas County Children Services’ operating funds. The agency’s primary expenses include salaries and benefits ($12.8 million), foster care costs ($6.5 million), and child welfare contracts ($1.8 million). Levy dollars are used to fund part of nearly every aspect of LCCS operation. LCCS also collaborates with, and/or funds, programs such as: Brothers United Buckeye TeleSystem Children’s Advocacy Center Connecting Kids to Meals Family and Child Abuse Prevention Center iHeart Media Imagination Station Juvenile Court Drug Court Kinship Navigator with Area Office on Aging Lucas County Sheriff’s Department DART Unit Lucas County Family Council Lucas County Juvenile Court Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority Mercy Health System Padua Center alternative suspension program ProMedica Health System Purchase of services through Lucas County Department of Job & Family Services Rouen Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram Toledo Police Department Toledo-Lucas County Public Library WTOL-TV WTVG-TV WNWO-TV Zepf Center Runaway Shelter

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Page 1: What this levy pays for - box5746.temp.domainsbox5746.temp.domains/.../2018/09/...Levy-Pays-For.pdf · What this levy pays for • Independent Living - preparing youth age 14+ to

• Agency administration - clerical, fiscal, records, information technology

• Agency operations - occupancy costs, technology, supplies, etc.

• Adoption subsidies - ongoing financial commitments to families that have adopted children from foster care

• Building A Better Future program - parent peer support program

• Case review - helps staff and families make the best decisions possible for children

• Child welfare contracts - mentoring, counseling, etc.

• Client supports - bus tokens, gas cards, utility assistance, rent, beds

• Client food, clothing and hygiene products

• Day care - for foster care families and kinship providers

• Family visits - provides a secure venue for parents to visit with their children while they are living apart

• Foster care & adoption recruitment - reaches out to the community to recruit new foster and adoptive families

• Health Services - provides health screening and monitoring of children in care

• Human Resources - hiring, training and managing the agency personnel needs

Paid for by Committee for Children, Suzette Cowell, Treasurer. P.O. Box 2202, Toledo, OH 43604419-392-9597 • [email protected]

What this levy pays for

• Independent Living - preparing youth age 14+ to emancipate from foster care

• Intake - accepting reports of suspected child abuse and neglect from members of the community

• Investigations and Assessments - caseworkers investigating suspected abuse and neglect

• Legal - staff attorneys represent LCCS and children in Juvenile Court

• Licensing and training of foster parents - preservice and ongoing training for foster parents; foster home certification and recertification

• Ongoing services - ongoing case management

• Parent education - teaches parents the skills they need to care for their children

• Post adoption services - ongoing support to adoptive families

• Post emancipation services - supports youth 18 - 21 who have emancipated from LCCS

• Security - trained guards provide building security and supervise Level 1 visits

• Transportation - staff transport children to visits with parents, appointments

Issue 9, the 1.85 mill renewal issue, will provide more than one-quarter of Lucas County Children Services’ operating funds. The agency’s primary expenses include salaries and benefits ($12.8 million), foster care costs ($6.5 million), and child welfare contracts ($1.8 million). Levy dollars are used to fund part of nearly every aspect of LCCS operation.

LCCS also collaborates with, and/or funds, programs such as:

Brothers United

Buckeye TeleSystem

Children’s Advocacy Center

Connecting Kids to Meals

Family and Child Abuse

Prevention Center

iHeart Media

Imagination Station

Juvenile Court Drug Court

Kinship Navigator with Area Office on Aging

Lucas County Sheriff’s Department DART Unit