High-Quality Legal Representation for Parents

The Ohio Department of Children and Youth is seeking proposals to improve access to and the quality of legal representation for parents, children, and kinship caregivers involved in the child welfare system. The selected Offeror will identify, design, and execute innovative strategies to address key barriers and promote meaningful improvements in legal representation. The scope of work includes training development and delivery, recruitment and retention, grants for pilot program expansion, scholarship opportunities, assessment of barriers, and implementation of innovative strategies. • The project aims to increase child welfare law-specific training and resources for child welfare attorneys. • The project seeks to increase support for existing or new strategies to improve the quality of legal representation. • The project aims to increase recruitment and retention of child welfare attorneys. • The project seeks to identify and reduce barriers that impede the delivery of high-quality legal representation. • The project aims to maximize the drawdown of Title IV-E reimbursement for legal representation. • The project seeks to collaborate with necessary stakeholders to assess Contractor-administered grant effectiveness and impact on improving the quality of legal representation.