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Who We Are

OACCA is a statewide association of private and public agencies that provide a wide array of services to children and families across the state.

What We Do

OACCA represents member interests to the Ohio General Assembly and other areas of the state government. We also take an active approach to federal and local issues that affect member agencies and the populations they serve.

A Proud Member Of:

Child Welfare League of America

Foster Family-Based Treatment Association

Alliance for Children & Families

National Association for Children's Behavioral Health

National Independent Living Association

National Organization of State Associations for Children

Foster Care Alumni of America

Campaign to Protect Ohio's Future

Ready to Launch

Voices for Ohio's Children

Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations

Public Policy Update Conference Calls


OACCA members and their board members are invited to participate in short monthly conference calls to hear a state and federal public policy update. These short conference calls begin in April 2009 and occur at the start of every OACCA Advocacy Committee conference call. To participate, fill out this form and we will send you the conference call information.

2009 OACCA Public Policy Agenda


The Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies (OACCA) announces the release of its 2009 Public Policy Agenda that lists its priorities for county, state, and federal public policies. 

Access the Public Policy Agenda here.



The Public Policy Agenda will be distributed to members of county governments in Ohio, as well as members of the Ohio General Assembly, other state offices, and Members of Congress from Ohio. For more information on OACCA or our public policy priorities, please contact us.

Update Your Agency and Program Profiles


To update information about your agency and the programs that you offer, please log-in.  There is one username and password assigned per agency to administer your agency and program profiles and to access other members-only information.  (Email us to find your username and password.)  Please distribute the log-in information to all staff that you wish to have access.


Join the Ohio Outcomes Data Project


OACCA takes an active role to ensure that Ohio’s evolving public policy results in a system that is fully integrated, efficient, cost effective and beneficial to those that matter most - Ohio’s at-risk children and families. Every year in Ohio more than 33,000 children are placed in out-of-home care to meet their needs for a safe and healthy living environment. For more than half of these children, more intensive treatment is needed to heal the damage inflicted by horrific abuse and significant neglect. This treatment is provided in substitute care settings such as treatment foster homes or residential treatment facilities.


As financial resources shrink, both purchasers of services and providers are obligated by their missions and ethical standards to be accountable – to children and their families, agency Board members, donors, taxpayers, and policy-makers. Accountability means they must achieve positive outcomes. They must be able to demonstrate that they use their resources effectively, efficiently and produce lasting results.


The OACCA Outcomes Data Project (ODP) is a valuable tool for agencies to use to measure their program performance and provide an objective basis for clinical and financial decision making. Service providers will have information never before available to them that will allow them to maximize the benefits their resources can produce and to invest them effectively so that the children they serve have the best possible chance to become productive citizens and good parents to their own healthy children.

For more information, check out the ODP web page and brochure.




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