NCJ Number
102305
Date Published
1985
Length
61 pages
Annotation
This manual presents the programs, services, policies, and job descriptions for the Ohio Youth Advocate Program (OYAP), a statewide effort to increase the use of community-based services as an alternative to the institutionalization of troubled and needy youth.
Abstract
The OYAP was established in January 1978 as a statewide, private, nonprofit child caring agency providing community-based residential and nonresidential services to troubled and needy youth. It is licensed by the Ohio Department of Human Services and approved by the Department of Youth Services. As a fully licensed adoption agency, OYAP also provides comprehensive adoption services to special needs children and youth. Programs include home advocacy (an advocate works with youth and their families in the home), foster care, intake/emergency foster care, independent living, special residential advocacy (work with difficult youth having special problems), and specialized adoption services. OYAP services are provided for youth, foster parents, advocates, staff, and the referring agency. The job descriptions provided encompass all OYAP personnel functions. Appended table of organization, program priorities and fiscal procedures for 1985, and the daily charge for agency services.