A public children services agency or private child placing agency shall make intensive efforts to identify and engage an appropriate and willing kinship caregiver for the care of a child who is in one of following:

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Terms Used In Ohio Code 2151.4116

  • Child: means a person who is under eighteen years of age, except that the juvenile court has jurisdiction over any person who is adjudicated an unruly child prior to attaining eighteen years of age until the person attains twenty-one years of age, and, for purposes of that jurisdiction related to that adjudication, a person who is so adjudicated an unruly child shall be deemed a "child" until the person attains twenty-one years of age. See Ohio Code 2151.011
  • Planned permanent living arrangement: means an order of a juvenile court pursuant to which both of the following apply:

    (a) The court gives legal custody of a child to a public children services agency or a private child placing agency without the termination of parental rights. See Ohio Code 2151.011

  • Private child placing agency: means any association, as defined in section 5103. See Ohio Code 2151.011
  • Temporary custody: means legal custody of a child who is removed from the child's home, which custody may be terminated at any time at the discretion of the court or, if the legal custody is granted in an agreement for temporary custody, by the person who executed the agreement. See Ohio Code 2151.011

(A) Temporary custody of the agency;

(B) A planned permanent living arrangement with the agency.

Last updated September 15, 2021 at 6:12 PM