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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
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
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
Joel PottsExecutive Director
Ohio Job and Family Services Directors’ Association (OJFSDA)
www.ojfsda.org
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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)
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
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
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
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
Addiction TreatmentMid-Biennium Budget Review
ODADAS Addiction Treatment funding will be CUT $6.2 Million on July 1
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
Addiction TreatmentMid-Biennium Budget Review
Behavioral Health Advocacy
Restore $6.2 Million to ODADAS
for Addiction Treatment to maintain existing service
capacity
Katie KellyExecutive Director of
Ohio GroundWork Campaign
Public Policy Fellow at the Center for Community Solutions
http://www.groundworkohio.org/index.cfm
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.
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
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.
Early Care and EducationS.B. 316
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
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
• 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
How Can You Get More Involved
• Learn More• Share Info and Resources• Endorse Advocates for
Ohio’s Future
Learn More• Read our partners testimony:
http://www.advocatesforohio.org/post?s=2012-03-22-advocates-testify-on-midbiennium-review
• Read AOF’s 3.28.12 testimony: http://advocatesforohio.org/perch/resources/AOF.MBR.Talking.Points.pdf
Share Information and Resources• Talking Points for conversations with
lawmakers (you can also use it as a leave behind resource!): http://advocatesforohio.org/perch/resources/AOF.MBR.Talking.Points.pdf • Share with colleagues, staff and
leaders in your community• Use this Powerpoint!• Share with your colleagues, staff
and at community meetings
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• Talk to your local lawmaker and share our recommendations
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Contact Us Advocates for Ohio’s Future
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