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Advocates for Ohio’s Future Political and Field Call Featuring: Joel Potts, Executive Director of Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association (OJFSDA) Teresa Lampl, Associate Director of The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health & Family Service Providers Katie Kelly, Director of the groundWork Campaign and Public Policy Fellow with the Center for Community Solutions

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Advocates for Ohio’s Future Political and Field Call

Featuring:Joel Potts, Executive Director of

Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association (OJFSDA)Teresa Lampl, Associate Director of

The Ohio Council of Behavioral Health & Family Service Providers

Katie Kelly, Director of the groundWork Campaign and Public Policy Fellow with the Center for Community Solutions

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Mid-Biennium Review• The Kasich Administration had a

News Conference on the MBR just over 2 weeks ago: March 14.

• HB 487 (The Mid-Biennium Review) Language introduced on Friday, Mar 16.

• Hearings began the week of Mar 19

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Mid-Biennium Review• This webinar will focus on fiscal

and policy changes in two separate bills: • House Bill 487 – The Mid-

Biennium Review• Senate Bill 216 – Ohio’s 21st

Century Education and Worforce Plan

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Joel PottsExecutive Director

Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association (OJFSDA)

[email protected]

www.ojfsda.org

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Workforce Development

• Governor Kasich top priorities for 2012: • Job training • Private sector job growth

• To that end, the MBR proposes to codify a recent executive order creating the Office of Workforce Transformation and the Governor’s Executive Workforce Board.

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Workforce Development

The goal: • Streamline and coordinate the State’s

77 work and training programs, which are currently spread between 13 government entities, into just two: • One for employers seeking workers • One for individuals to improve their

employment opportunities.

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County JFS cost savings consolidation• Since 2006, county job and family service

agencies have experienced decreased funding of over 40% while serving record caseloads, with most programs experiencing growth in excess of 50%

• To meet the need in the community with the limited resources, county agencies have embarked on numerous modernization strategies to maximize resources and improve service delivery

• The most aggressive consolidation project currently underway is a pilot project in Hocking, Ross and Vinton Counties to consolidate agencies and share administrative functions while maintaining direct services in each of the local areas

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County JFS cost savings consolidation• The MBR removes the designation of the

three county program as a “pilot” currently in statute and makes the consolidation of agencies an option statewide for local governments to consider

• By allowing JFS agencies the option to pursue shared services across county lines, local agencies will be empowered to pursue additional strategies to share resources and identify greater efficiencies, better utilize existing expertise in the system and ensure that critical services continue to be available at the local level.

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Simplified Eligibility Determination

• Building on last year’s budget (HB 153) initiative to simplify healthcare eligibility policy, the MBR proposes to further streamline and simplify eligibility for all public assistance programs

• County agencies currently administer dozens of programs with multiple eligibility criteria being applied to each

• The MBR would provide a mechanism to streamline and standardize eligibility criteria for multiple programs, greatly reducing bureaucratic processes which will save time, cut costs, speed up eligibility determination, reduce errors and avoid potential federal penalties

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Teresa LamplAssociate Director

www.theohiocouncil.org

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Behavioral HealthMid-Biennium Budget Review

The only state agencies to receive additional funding in the Mid-Biennial Budget Review:• Ohio Department of Alcohol

and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS)

• Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH)

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Behavioral HealthMid-Biennium Budget Review

Capital Bill - $10 million for Housing

Mental Health• Absorbed 1% budget reduction

in State Hospital Administration • $3 Million targeted to regional

community mental health projects

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Behavioral HealthMid-Biennium Budget Review

ODADAS• Exempted from 1% budget reduction• Seek Medicaid coverage for

Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for opiate addiction.

• $5 Million investment for Medicaid match for MAT

• $1.05 Million for targeted community addiction treatment for opiate addiction

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Behavioral HealthMid-Biennium Budget Review

Other Policy Changes:• Aligns licensure of adult care facilities

with mental health residential licensure

• Expands definition of addiction to include gambling addiction.

• Privacy and confidentiality law changes that will facilitate exchange of health information, including mental health records

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Behavioral Health Medicaid Reforms• Health Homes for Individuals with

Serious and Persistent Mental Illness

• Integrated Care Delivery System for “Dual Eligible” Medicare/Medicaid recipients

• Disabled Children and Pediatric Accountable Care Organizations

• Enhanced Care Management for High Cost Medicaid Managed Care Enrollees

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Addiction TreatmentMid-Biennium Budget Review

ODADAS Addiction Treatment funding will be CUT $6.2 Million on July 1

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Addiction TreatmentMid-Biennium Budget Review

Impact of Addiction Treatment funding CUT:

• 3,800 people will not have access to addiction treatment

• Lost lives – 1 Ohioan dies every 6 hours from accidental drug overdose

• Employers unable to find workers due to high failure of drug screens

• Sentencing reform efforts will be ineffective without access to addiction treatment

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Addiction TreatmentMid-Biennium Budget Review

Behavioral Health Advocacy

Restore $6.2 Million to ODADAS

for Addiction Treatment to maintain existing service

capacity

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Katie KellyExecutive Director of

Ohio GroundWork Campaign

Public Policy Fellow at the Center for Community Solutions

http://www.groundworkohio.org/index.cfm

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Early Care and EducationH.B. 487

Early Care and Education Quality• All Early Childhood Education (Public Preschool) programs must be rated in Step Up to Quality by July 1, 2016.• Special education programs for preschool children operated by school districts, educational service centers, and county DD boards must be rated by July 1, 2018.• Part of implementation of Race to the Top- Early Learning Challenge.

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Early Care and Education Quality• Renames the voluntary child day-care center rating program (known as Step Up to Quality) as the tiered quality rating and improvement system and extends the system to all child day-care providers. • Requires all publicly funded child care providers participate in the tiered quality rating and improvement system by July 1, 2020. • Modifies the requirements that a person must meet to be a child day-care center administrator.

Early Care and EducationS.B. 316

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Early Care and Education Quality

The following reforms set to begin on January 1, 2014• Requires type B family day-care homes (that seek public funding) be licensed by the ODJFS Director rather than certified by the CDJFS• Eliminates type B family day-care homes with limited certification and in-home aides with limited certification. • Requires that in-home aides undergo a background check as part of the certification process.

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Early Care and Education Data • Requires the director of any state agency that administers programs for children who are younger than compulsory school age (i.e., younger than age six and not in kindergarten) to obtain for each child receiving those services a student data verification code (also called a "Statewide Student Identifier" or "SSID") issued under the Department of Education's "Education Management Information System" (EMIS). • Requires the EMIS contractor to submit to the Department of Education the SSID code of a child younger than compulsory school age receiving services from another state agency.

Early Care and EducationS.B. 316

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Early Care and Education Data •Requires state agencies to submit to the Department of Education personally identifiable information of children younger than compulsory school age receiving services from the agency using their SSID codes. •Provides that personally identifiable information of children younger than compulsory school age maintained in EMIS or an agency's files is not a public record•Part of Race to the Top- Early Learning Challenge implementation of new early childhood data and assessment system.

Early Care and EducationS.B. 316

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• Support workforce development• Keep family at home and in our

communities• Enhance community behavioral

health• Support quality early care &

education• Deliver community services

effectively• Develop effective prescribing

practices

Advocates for Ohio’s Future MBR Recommendations

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Contact Us Advocates for Ohio’s Future

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