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DCY Tuesday Times
Issue 12: July 9, 2024 |
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Tuesday Times
This ongoing correspondence focuses on essential business-related information, providing important updates for our partners. These updates encompass practice and policy adjustments, data dashboard enhancements, funding prospects, program details, training initiatives, and various other pertinent topics.
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For Your Awareness
Sign Language Interpretation at the 2024
Ohio State Fair
From Ohio Department of Education and Workforce's July 1 EdConnection
The 2024 Ohio State Fair, which takes place from July 24 through Aug. 4, is continuing its commitment to accessibility and ensuring that all Ohioans can fully enjoy the vibrant atmosphere, thrilling attractions, and cherished traditions.
For fairgoers whose preferred method of communication is American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be offered at the following events, with no reservations required:
- Opening ceremony
- Sale of Champions Livestock Auction
- Natural Resources Park Great Lakes Timber (lumberjack) shows
- Marvelous Mutts shows at the Dog House
- All paid ticketed concerts in the WCOL Celeste Center.
The State Fair’s daily schedule will feature additional events available in ASL. Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities is sharing this video about the Ohio State Fair ASL interpretation for Ohioans who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The Ohio State Fair offers a range of accessibility options to ensure an inclusive experience for all visitors. The Ohio State Fair accessibility webpage provides details on amenities and information to plan a visit.
Come Visit DCY at the Ohio State Fair
The Ohio Department of Children and Youth (DCY) will host its very first booth at the Ohio State Fair, July 24 through August 4, 2024!
The DCY booth will be located in the Market Place (Bricker Building) along the left hand wall, Booth #21A. DCY staff will greet Ohio families and children, bring awareness to DCY services and programs, and provide highly engaging activities.
Some of the features of the booth include information kiosks, a quiz station, reading nook, safari floor sound tiles, an immersive drawing experience, cell phone charging stations, and a Virtual Reality safari for teens. The centerpiece will be a beautiful tree.
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Ohio Department of Medicaid Seeks Feedback About OhioRISE.
In their efforts to better serve young people with behavioral health challenges and their caregivers throughout our communities across the state, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM), is asking for your feedback about OhioRISE.
We understand the OhioRISE program will continue to evolve to mature and address changing needs. We also know that local perspectives provide us with the building blocks we need to spread best practices and creative initiatives from one part of our state to the next. We ask you to raise your voice for OhioRISE by either completing this form or emailing OhioRISE@medicaid.ohio.gov with ideas for improving the program or sharing the unique ways you’re implementing OhioRISE with your agency’s stakeholders.
Over the past five years, ODM and our partners – including partner state agencies – have been working together to begin shifting the system of care to keep more youth and families together, support young people and their caregivers with care coordination, and build up access to new services to support the complex mental health and substance use needs of the young people in our program. We have found that this long-term work requires tenacity, passion, and above all else deep collaboration among partners across our child-serving systems. OhioRISE continues to rely on stakeholder input to inform the evolution of our program.
During this second year of OhioRISE, we are starting new ways to get more feedback to improve how the program works.
We ask that you not only provide your feedback but help us to spread the word! Attached to this email, you will find the following communications you can use to share this information:
- Content that can be used in an email or newsletter targeted toward OhioRISE families, caregivers, and members.
- Content that can be used in an email or newsletter targeted toward community and county partners, entities, and providers.
- Prepared content you can post to your agency website.
- Posts you can share through your social media channels.
Thank you for continuing to help us provide family-centric programs that reach every eligible child and youth who needs us statewide.
Please send questions to OhioRISE@medicaid.ohio.gov.
Thank you,
The Ohio Department of Medicaid
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Children Services
Home Visiting
Ohio Children's Trust Fund
Maternal and Infant Vitality Programming
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Early Education |
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Early Intervention
Publicly Funded Child Care
Early Childhood Education
Preschool Special Education
Licensing
Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Ohio
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Ohio Commission on Fatherhood
Ohio Family Children First Council
Healthy Beginnings at Home
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Strong Families, Safe Communities
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Data Review Project Now Underway
The Children Services Placement Workgroup’s recommendation to conduct a review of cases involving children and youth in the custody of a Public Children Services Agency (PCSA) who have been in a congregate care setting for two to five years is currently underway.
The Ohio Department of Children and Youth (DCY) placement team is connecting with service teams of children and youth in the first wave of reviews. This initial group consists of children and youth 12 years old and younger and those who are 13 years old and older who are identified as leaving congregate care this summer. In bringing together local teams and OhioRISE providers with additional supports from state sister agencies, including the Ohio Departments of Medicaid, Developmental Disabilities, Mental Health and Addiction Services, and Youth Services, we hope to provide each child and youth with the opportunity to step into a family-like setting with all the supports needed to be successful.
As we move forward, please watch for notifications from DCY regarding the reviews. All PCSA Directors or Administrators who have children and youth in a wave for review will receive an email when those reviews are beginning. Service teams will then receive an email from the DCY Placement Project Manager, Lucy Gobble, identifying the child or youth as well as next steps.
DCY would like to thank our partners for their willingness to engage and DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR KIDS! If you have any questions, please feel free reach out to our placement email box at placement@childrenandyouth.ohio.gov.
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Updates and Guidance Letters
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Literacy Academy Resources and Conference Handout Available
From Ohio Department of Education and Workforce's June 24 EdConnection
More than 1,000 education professionals attended this year’s ReadOhio Literacy Academy to focus on strategies to support students and boost reading achievement. Presentation slides, handouts, and more resources are available from those leading conference sessions. Visit the Department's Literacy Academy webpage to access materials from the two-day event.
Conference sessions focused on the importance of instruction grounded in the Science of Reading. A short film, which premiered at the conference, is available now on the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce’s YouTube channel. Watch “ReadOhio: Dotting the ‘i’ in Literacy.” The piece, featuring Kareem Weaver, Governor DeWine, and more, chronicles the importance of the Science of Reading, how Ohio districts are focused on literacy, and the urgency surrounding helping students learn to read.
The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce continues to make available coursework for teachers and administrators to meet Science of Reading professional development requirements. Find course pathways and answers to frequently asked questions.
Learn How to Implement Visual Supports for Early Care and Education
The Early Childhood Inclusion Center of Excellence will present its Naptime Series on July 11 as a virtual discussion on Visual Supports.
The first 50 Ohio registrant who attend will receive a license for Boardmaker. For more information and to register, click here for the flyer.
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Updates and Guidance Letters
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Ohio Commission on Fatherhood Quarterly Meeting This Week
The Ohio Commission on Fatherhood (OCF) will host its quarterly meeting this Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. You can attend the meeting in person at the Vern Riffe Building, 77 S. High St. on the 19th floor in conference room 1948, or virtually, by following this link.
To attend in person, please bring your photo identification.
To review past meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and presentations, visit the OCF website.
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 Updates and Guidance Letters
No relevant documents for week of 7/9/24
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