The document summarizes the Ohio Youth Advisory Board's statewide quarterly meeting on July 21, 2022. It discusses OHIO YAB updates including work on youth rights, resources, and voice. Key topics discussed were a youth-designed video on teen moms in foster care, presentations to state agencies, and recommendations on foster care programs. Brainstorming centered around connecting youth, measuring foster care success, and extending support to age 23. A new resource for youth resilience was also proposed.

1. Ohio Youth Advisory Board
Statewide Quarterly Meeting
Thursday, July 21, 2022

2. 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

3. OHIO YAB updates, July 2022
Youth
Rights
- Youth Rights Video: Children’s Defense Fund Ohio
- Youth who run away to escape abuse
- Met with Ohio Youth Ombudsman in June
Youth
Resources
- Review/recommendations: Life Skills training for
foster parents on Higher Ed, Housing, Budgeting
- Youth-designed video: Teen Moms in Foster Care
Youth
Voice
- Ohio Citizen Review Panel presentation in May
- Met with Director Kim Hauck re: disabilities
- Met with Ohio Medicaid re: second opinions
Youth
Input
- Review/recommendations re: C.A.R.E. Guide
- Youth Focus Groups: Tiered Foster Care
- Recommendations: ICCA, CANS, Characteristics

4. Brainstorming Topics
1. Connections Matter Academy: Exploring
video content and Connections Tool.
2. Shared Practice Model: Youth voice on what
foster care looks like and how its success is
measured.
3. Extending Foster Care Support to Age 23:
Including navigation support and emergency
funds.
4. Ohio Minds Matter Website: Creating a
“Helping Youth Build Resilience” page

5. Designed by trauma experts and those with lived experienced in foster
care, this resource will inform youth ages 14-24 about:
• The impact of trauma
• How supportive relationships help with healing
• How youth can map out their personal experiences as part of an active life book
of their “chosen family” and the memories that mean the most to them

6. Shared Practice Model
The purpose of this breakout
session is to invite Youth
Voice about:
• The child welfare
system
• How outcomes are
measured
• What is prioritized in
the day-to-day work of
caseworkers and
supervisors

7. The federal Family First Prevention Services Act gives
states the option of extending the use of Chafee funding
to serve former foster youth through the age of 23,
but our state has not yet done so.

9. New and Good