The document outlines the agenda for the Ohio YAB Officers Retreat on January 13, 2018 at the Dave Thomas Foundation in Columbus, Ohio. The agenda includes discussions on sample tools for county/regional youth advisory boards, state and local youth advisory board funding, legislative updates, and opportunities for OHIO YAB in 2018. The retreat will also include drafting a schedule for the January OHIO YAB statewide meeting. The document also provides information about upcoming OHIO YAB statewide meetings, the officer-in-training application process, code of conduct expectations, social media guidelines, protocols for presentations, and details about the youth stipend program and statewide deliverables required by June 2018.

1. Ohio YAB Officers Retreat
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Dave Thomas Foundation, 7720 Rivers Edge Drive,
Suite 245, Columbus, OH 43235
10:00 am – 4:00 pm

2. OHIO YAB Retreat Schedule
10:00 am, Welcome, Introductions and OHIO YAB Meeting Dates
10:15 am, Sample Tools for County/Regional Youth Advisory Boards
10:30 am, State and Local Youth Advisory Board Funding
11:00 am, Brainstorming to Move Forward in 2018
*June 30th video project deadline
BREAK for LUNCH
1:00 pm, Legislative Updates
2:00 pm, Upcoming Opportunities in 2018
*Bridges, Open Table, future resource app
3:00 pm, Draft Schedule for January OHIO YAB meeting
4:00 pm, Departure

3. • We exist to be the knowledgeable
statewide voice that influences policies and
practices that impact youth who have or
will experience out of home care.
OHIO YAB Mission

4. Meeting schedule
OHIO Youth Advisory Board Statewide Meetings take place
from 11 am – 2 pm:
• Thursday, January 18, 2018
• Thursday, April 19, 2018 (2018 Officer Elections)
• Thursday, July 19, 2018
• Thursday, October 18, 2018
LOCATION:
Quest Business and Conference Center
8405 Pulsar Place, Columbus, OH 43240

5. Officer-in-Training
APPLICATION
ESSAY PORTION
1. Your name, age, phone number and email address*
2. How many years have you been in foster care?
3. Are you involved in your local/statewide youth advisory board?
4. Please list some of your prior community involvement experiences.
5. Tell us more about your other qualifications to be an Officer-in-
Training
REFERENCES
• Two recommendations must be submitted by adults who can share
about your skills, character, work ethic, experience, and other
qualifications

6. CODE OF CONDUCT
Flip Chart:
How do YOU want the
OHIO Youth Advisory Board
(and foster youth in general)
to be represented by OHIO YAB
officers and members?
Including on social media

7. FACEBOOK MANNERS

8. Social media Don’t post anything about your employer unless
you are sure that it is your company policy.
 Don’t post photos that are inappropriate.
Although your profile may be private, there is
always a way that information can be accessed
by others.
 Don’t accept those that you don’t know.
 Don’t take it personally if recruiters or HR
professionals from organizations do not accept
you as connections…they may draw a line with
candidates.
 Don’t post any updates that you are not
comfortable with all future employers seeing.
 Post any inaccurate information about prior jobs.
Consider this to be a public resume and ensure
that everything can be validated.
 Reach out to someone you don’t know and use
a mutual connections name without checking
with them first.
 Ensure that your Facebook page is private.
Often times your profile is set up so that friends
within friends or group members can see your
information.
 Scrutinize what you and your friends post
on your pages.
Consider modifying your settings so that you have to
approve posts. You never know what someone is
going to write on YOUR wall.
 Google yourself.
Make sure that the results that come back are
favorable. If they aren’t go through the process to
try to get these removed. You want to make sure
that your first impression is as positive as possible.
 Manage pictures and tags.
Pictures say a thousand words. Ensure that your
pictures communicate an image that you what you
want to say.
 Get involved with media.
Newspapers, magazines, local TV is a great way to
be positively exposed. It always sounds like a good
idea to be interviewed by the local news, just make
sure the topic is neutral.

9. Protocol
For adults to present at an OHIO YAB meeting:
1. Topic:
2. Specific relevance to statewide meeting:
3. Estimated time needed to present*:
*The Ohio YAB Leadership Team will review and respond to
your request. Please note that, due to time constraints, we
may request that you shorten your presentation. Or, we might
suggest a different time or method for sharing your questions
and/or information with young people.

10. Protocol
For agencies/organizations to request a Youth Panel
1. Name, Date, Location and Purpose of Event
2. Audience Size and Demographics
3. How many youth? Will a stipend be provided?
4. Must provide panel questions to youth ahead of time.
5. Must schedule a phone call with youth to prepare.

11. STIPEND PROGRAM
Program Description for 2018:
Youth will be reimbursed for approved events such as panels,
workshops and leadership trainings:
• $50 dollars for a half-day event (less than 4 hours, including travel
time)
• $100 for a full day event (more than 4 hours, including travel time)
• $100 for a video (because they are giving away the rights to share
that video in various forums)
* OHIO YAB Quarterly Meetings are not part of the OHIO YAB Youth
Stipend Program.

12. OHIO YAB STATEWIDE DELIVERABLES
Statewide OHIO YAB funding ($10K) comes from a grant
through ODJFS, and the OHIO YAB is required to fulfill the
following deliverables between now and June 2018:
1.) OHIO YAB Stipend Rates and Process (need a form)
2.) OHIO YAB Video to Encourage Foster Parents for
Teens/Young Adults
• Due June 30, 2018
• Based on 2017 OHIO YAB Strategic Plan

13. HOW YAB FUNDING WORKS
• Each county YAB receives $5,000. Regional and statewide boards
receive $10,000. Must spend down by June 30th, or lose the
leftover money, and get less next time.
• Youth voice MUST be included in decision-making about
spending the funds.
• ODJFS funding can NOT be spent on food for
meetings/conferences, lobbying or logo materials
• The funding CAN be spent on youth leadership activities and
supplies, including bus tickets, flights, hotel rooms, event
registration, office supplies, and tools to support youth
leadership.

14. BRAINSTORMING
• OHIO YAB Video Project, which must be filmed by June 30,
2018
• Recruitment and Retention of County/Regional Youth
Advisory Boards (including Toolkits)

16. Lunch

17. Fostering Stable Housing
Opportunities ACT

18. Sibling legislation
The current wording of
Ohio House Bill 448
defines a sibling as:
• Someone who "shares
at least one biological
or adoptive parents, or
has been raised in the
same household as a
sibling."

19. Sibling legislation
It will be important for the wording to remain firm in order
to truly make those sibling connections HAPPEN:

20. Mandated reporter
Legislation
• State Representative Bernadine Kennedy Kent (D-Columbus) was
shocked to learn that Ohio is the only state in our nation to NOT
have law enforcement personnel listed as mandated reporters of
child abuse and neglect.
• As a former teacher, she feels that police officers should have to
report these situations like she would have been required to do as
a mandated reporter.
• if someone reports abuse to the police, the police are required to
file a report with JFS.
• But - if Ohio police themselves intervene in domestic situation,
they are not mandated by Ohio law to report abuse or neglect that
they might personally witness.

21. Update on Bridges

22. Open Table Model
• Piloting it in Union and Madison Counties?

23. January 18th meeting
11:00 – 11:15 Welcome and Updates Since Our Last Meeting
• Pathways Conference, OHIO YAB Youth Ambassadors Retreat
11:15 – Noon Youth Brainstorming Breakout Sessions
• BRIDGES Program (foster care supports until age 21)
• CAPMIS: Youth voice in safety plan and decisions to reunify
• Youth voice on proposed Ohio legislation (Siblings/Mandated Reporters)
• Seeking to create a future app for foster youth with resources
Noon- 12:30 pm Break for Lunch
Youth share their personal accomplishments in 2017 and goals for 2018
12:30 - 1:30 pm Reporting Out on Morning Brainstorming
1:30-2:00 pm New and Good