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!