State Agency Aims To Keep Kids With Disabilities With Their Families

A new pilot program is gearing up to aid central Ohio families whose kids have disabilities and volatile behaviors that require expensive residential treatment. For too long, advocates say, many of those families have been falling into crisis, with anguished parents finally relinquishing custody to child-protective services to obtain desperately needed care.adcelannotate = {"mobilepaywallcategory" : "MOBILE_PREM-LOCAL","nativepaywallcategory" : "NATIVE_PREM-LOCAL"};

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