Our Impact
Ohio START (Sobriety, Treatment and Reducing Trauma) is currently being implemented in 57 counties throughout Ohio. Each county employs at least one Ohio START caseworker and one Family Peer Mentor who work together as a dyad to serve a caseload of up to 12 families, providing intensive, family-centered support. To date, Ohio START has served more than 1,600 families and reached over 2,800 children statewide.
5052
Ohioans served
57
counties
2922
children
2,922
children served
Over 2,800 children have been served by Ohio START. The model aims to stabilize families harmed by parental substance use so that both children and their parents can recover and move forward with safe and addiction-free lives. For current data on the model please visit the Ohio START Dashboard created by The Ohio State University College of Social Work.
Our Impact
The Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (START) Model is an affiliate of the national Sobriety, Treatment and Recovery Teams (START) Model, an evidence-informed children-welfare-led intervention for families that has been shown, when implemented with fidelity, to improve outcomes for both parents and children affected by child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders[1]. The national START model is specifically designed to transform the system-of-care within and between child welfare agencies and behavioral health providers; it also engages the judicial system and other family serving agencies. The broad goals of both models are to keep children safely with their parents whenever possible and to promote parental recovery and capacity to care for their children.
[1] California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (2016). Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START). Retrieved from:
https://www.cebc4cw.org/program/sobriety-treatment-and-recovery-teams/detailed
Ohio START children services caseworker
provides intensive case management and partners with family peer mentor to serve families in the Ohio START initiative
Ohio START family peer mentor
provides peer support to help families navigate through the child welfare and other systems while also providing hope and motivation to promote healing to keep children safe and families together
Behavioral Health
partner with the children service agency to streamline services for Ohio START families
START Services
For more information on the Ohio START model please visit the services page or email Fawn Gadel, fawn@pcsao.org.