SCCS Executive Director Julie Barnes has officially announced the members of the 2019-2020 Leadership Academy Class II! The Leadership Academy is a program designed to educate and allow staff to hone their valuable leadership skills. The Leadership Academy was modeled after several leadership programs offered by local Chambers of Commerce, corporations and other county public children services agencies.  The members of Class II are:

The Ohio Senate Finance Committee has announced that a substitute bill has been constituted that prioritizes child safety and permanency. We at Summit County Children Services (SCCS) are committed to the safety, permanency, and well-being of all children as the entire premise of our agency so this is a bill worth celebrating! According to Angela Sausser, the executive director of Public Children Services Association of Ohio (PCSAO), a $15 million federal TANF set-aside for the kinship caregiver program has been restored.

May is National Foster Care Month, a time to acknowledge foster parents who help children and youth in foster care by providing them a temporary and sometimes permanent home and family. On behalf of SCCS and the Board of Trustees, thank you for your partnership in providing safety and permanency for the children of Summit County.

It’s been many months in the planning, but we’ve finally launched our new website. (link to home page) We wanted to update what was a very old design and reorganize our content to make it much easier for current foster families, adoptive parents and other interested parties to find the information they seek.