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About Linking Systems of Care for Ohio’s Youth
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The Project
Linking Systems of Care for Ohio’s Youth (LSCOY) is Ohio’s effort to better coordinate and align health care, child welfare, education, justice, and other systems both statewide and locally to ensure that, regardless of the system of entry, young victims of trauma and their families receive help in a timely and seamless manner.
Ohio is one of four demonstration sites in the United States that received Linking Systems of Care funding from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).
Helping Systems
LSCOY aims to link systems impacting children, youth, and young adult victims on a statewide level for greater coordination to improve family outcomes, responsiveness, efficiency, and to increase leveraging of additional resources for Ohio’s child/youth victims.
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Criminal Justice System
Law enforcement, prosecution, victim/witness programs, courts that deal with felonies, misdemeanors and juvenile delinquency, and victim’s rights attorneys.
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Civil and Domestic Relations Court Systems
Courts that deal with divorce, parenting time, child abuse, neglect and dependency, civil protection orders and other civil actions, CASAs, GALs and private attorneys.
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Victim Advocacy
Information about Child Advocacy Centers (CAC), domestic violence and rape crisis/sexual assault, victims’ rights information, best practices for supporting LGBTQIA+ survivors, Children Who Witness Violence projects, information about peer support and peer support groups and other programs using empowerment / advocacy models.
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Child Welfare
Information about child protective services, foster care, adoption, transition aged youth aging/aged out of foster care, and kinship care benefits and services.
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Health Care
Primary and specialty physical health care, behavioral health care, occupational, art, music and other holistic therapies, psychiatry, counseling, and group therapy.
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Emergency Services
Forensic nurses, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE), emergency medical care, suicide and other crisis intervention services, emergency shelter, and Trauma Centers.
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Community Based Support
Food banks, permanent and supported housing, rental assistance, eviction prevention, central intake services, Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) and other utility support and education programs.
About the Project
Our Guiding Principles
Learn about the principles guiding our efforts, the values we hold, and the action items for our project.
Staff & Stakeholders
See the people and the organizations behind this project.
Needs Assessment & Gap Analysis
Learn more about the gaps in identifying children/youth that have been victimized as well as gaps in professional training and resources.
Ohio Data on Youth Trauma
Learn about how trauma is affecting youth and families in Ohio.
Screening Tool Development
See how we are developing a screening tool to aid in identifying trauma victims and offer recommended treatments.
Ohio Framing Values & Principles
Strategic Plan
Have Questions for Us?
If you have a question about the project, need some help or guidance, or would like to assist in some way, we are here for you.