The Ohio legislature created the Ohio Children's Trust Fund Board in 1984. The Ohio Children’s Trust Fund Statute is Ohio Revised Code 3109.13-18. The Children’s Trust Fund is funded by revenues from surcharges on birth and death certificates and divorce and dissolution decrees. The funds are earmarked for each county through a formula based on the number of children living in each county. OCTF also earns investment income from the Community Based Child Abuse Prevention federal grant which is made available for additional prevention programs and special initiatives. Local allocations are awarded on a biennial basis for primary and secondary prevention programs, serving children and families in all of Ohio's 88 counties. The Children's Trust Fund is Ohio's largest funding source for child abuse and neglect prevention in the state.
Funds from OCTF can only be used for:
Primary prevention program
Primary programs include activities or services designed to prevent or reduce the prevalence of child abuse and neglect by educating the public, strengthening families, or influencing policy issues.
Secondary prevention programs
Secondary programs are those activities or services targeted at special populations at-risk of abuse and neglect.
Programs can be administered by public or private agencies including schools and universities.
Programs comprising activities or services that provide ongoing treatment or services to identified abusers or victims, the tertiary prevention programs, are ineligible for funding. The criteria used by OCTF in determining an identified abuser or victim is whether or not the individual has an open protective services case existing in the system (SACWIS).
The local body, the Child Abuse Prevention Committee, is a subcommittee of the Family and Children First Council with direct reporting responsibility to the Family and Children First Council Executive Committee.
For more information please contact Denise Hudson at (216) 443-5926
| Child Abuse Prevention Committee |
Donna Barton
Help Me Grow
Marcos Cortes
Member at Large
Tamara Chapman-Wagner
Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services
Valeria Harper
Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County
Michael Hogan
Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities
Denise Hudson, Staff
Family & Children First Council |
Robin R. Martin – (Ex-officio)
Family and Children First Council
Anthony Sharaba
Cuyahoga Support Enforcement Agency
Pamela Smith
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
George Tsagaris
Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court
Thea Wilson
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Michael Walker
Partnership for a Safer Cleveland |