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Prior to July 2013, ODJFS was also the state agency responsible for the administration of Ohio's Medicaid program. In July 2013, a new state agency was created, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM), Ohio’s first Executive-level Medicaid agency. ODJFS employs about 2,300 full time employees and has an annual budget of $3.3 billion. [2]
Michael B. Colbert is the director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), a $20-plus billion agency with nearly 4,000 employees. ODJFS is the largest agency in the state and is responsible for supervising the state's public assistance, workforce development, unemployment compensation, child and adult protective services, adoption, child care, and child support programs.
Lumpkin was director of the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services for three years. [2] After the Controversial Ohio database searches of Joe Wurzelbacher, and Helen Jones-Kelley's resignation as director of the ODJFS on December 17, 2008, Douglas E. Lumpkin was chosen by Governor Ted Strickland to become director of the ODJFS.
In 2006, ODJFS took away the license for Lifeway For Youth, a nonprofit Christian-based placement agency, due to the death of a 3 year old boy. [2] Riley, then the director of ODJFS, questioned "how the private placement agency Lifeway for Youth, Butler County Children Services and her own department failed the boy."
LA's Emergency Renters Assistance Program has been amended to supply 100% of tenants' unpaid rent for April 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021 (up from 80% for people whose landlord agreed to waive ...
Helen Jones-Kelley is the former Director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS), Ohio's largest agency, [1] from 2007 to 2008. During her tenure she received substantial media attention for various ODJFS-related activities, [2] [3] and for her role in the Joe the Plumber database search controversy.
The state expected the renovation would save tens of millions of dollars over any alternatives. The work however was halted in 2008, after $2.8 million was spent on design, demolition, and asbestos abatement; ODJFS blamed the overall cost, the federally-restricted use requirements, and found the economic downturn increased costs. [1]
During his time as director of ODJFS, Hayes oversaw a department that employed 3,700 employees and had an annual budget of more than $15 billion. [1] As director, Hayes created a performance center for the department, federally certified a child support computer system, and started an online job-matching system. [1]