2013 three days on the hill
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Three Days On the HillMarch 17 – 21, 2013
OHIO Youth Advisory Board
We exist to be the knowledgeable statewide voice that influences policies and practices that effect all youth who have or will experience out of home care.
OHIO Youth Advisory Board Mission Statement
Three Days On the Hill
The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institutehosted our morning training,
and provided breakfast
Casey Family Programs assisted with training and sponsored our lunch
Afternoon training hosted bythe Office of Representative Karen Bass,
Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth
Matthew Aronson,U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ruth White, National Center for Housing and Child Welfare
Youth delegates with Shalita O’Neale of the Maryland Youth Resource Center and Fostering Change Network
Focus Areas for Participating Youth
1. What is the role of the federal government when it comes to transitional housing for youth "aging out" of foster care?
2. Does the Uninterrupted Scholars Act address the differing number of credits required to graduate from high schools, and how this can negatively impact foster youth when they transfer from one high school to another?
Focus Areas for Participating Youth
3. Could Title IV-E funds ever be expanded to allow them to be used for the training of youth -- not just adults?
4. Is there another way to promote compliance with NYTD besides having states lose part of their Chafee dollars for noncompliance? Could there be another penalty? Rather than one that risks negatively impacting the success of foster youth?
Representative Pat Tiberi
Representative Pat Tiberi
Representative Mike Turner
Representative Mike Turner
House Speaker John Boehner
Becky Shipp, Health Policy Advisor to the Senate Finance Committee
Senator Rob Portman
Navigating the Metro
Banquet hosted by the Fostering Change Network
Foster Focus MagazineBlessed Haven
“Nothing About Us, Without Us”
Appreciation for Our Allies
Appreciation for Our National Sponsors
Appreciation for Our Ohio Sponsors
Looking forward to next year’s DC trip!