A Public and Private Collaboration of Public Child Welfare Agencies and Private Adoption Service Providing Agencies

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Friday, November 12, 2010 • 9:30am-3:15pm
Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
Air Center – Rooms A118 and A119
4020 East Fifth Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43219

Purpose: Bring together adoption professionals from public and private agencies to present children waiting for adoption, and families who may be a perfect match

Sponsors: Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies - Public Children Services Association of Ohio - Ohio Adoption Planning Group - Ohio Department of Job and Family Services

Register online; deadline is October 22, 2010

Cost: Free!

Each year, OACCA partners with several organizations to host a summit for youth aging out of foster care and the professionals who work with them. The summit creates an environment for foster care youth and alumni to dialogue with child welfare professionals, and exchange insights about competencies needed to live a healthy, safe and productive life as an adult. We celebrate and promote current best practices in Ohio and offer practical information for participants to apply in their work and/or personal lives. 

2010 Ohio Independent Living Summits
We are excited to announce that there will be two regional summits held during 2010 so that participation is maximized and to focus discussion on the local level. 

Southwest Ohio Independent Living Summit: Supporting Success for Youth Transitioning Out of Care
August 11, 2010
Cincinnati, Ohio

Northeast Ohio Independent Living Summit: Supporting Success for Youth Transitioning Out of Care 
October 29, 2010 
Canton, Ohio

Click here for more information

OACCA takes an active role to ensure that Ohio’s evolving public policy results in a system that is fully integrated, efficient, cost effective and beneficial to those that matter most - Ohio’s at-risk children and families. Every year in Ohio more than 33,000 children are placed in out-of-home care to meet their needs for a safe and healthy living environment. For more than half of these children, more intensive treatment is needed to heal the damage inflicted by horrific abuse and significant neglect. This treatment is provided in substitute care settings such as treatment foster homes or residential treatment facilities.

As financial resources shrink, both purchasers of services and providers are obligated by their missions and ethical standards to be accountable – to children and their families, agency Board members, donors, taxpayers, and policy-makers. Accountability means they must achieve positive outcomes. They must be able to demonstrate that they use their resources effectively, efficiently and produce lasting results.

The OACCA Outcomes Data Project (ODP) is a valuable tool for agencies to use to measure their program performance and provide an objective basis for clinical and financial decision making. Service providers will have information never before available to them that will allow them to maximize the benefits their resources can produce and to invest them effectively so that the children they serve have the best possible chance to become productive citizens and good parents to their own healthy children.

For more information, check out the ODP web page and brochure.