Investigates complaints and advocates for residents of long term care facilities. Assists nursing home and group home residents with asserting their rights and with problems concerning Medicare, Medicaid, and social security. Handles complaints of long term care services provided in home and community settings. Promotes volunteer visitation and advocacy services.

Contact the Mayor's office with concerns or questions pertaining to the City of Pickerington.

The Ohio Youth and Family Ombudsman reviews youth, family, and community complaints and concerns, while attempting to resolve the issues. They cannot investigate claims of abuse or neglect, nor respond to emergencies.

Local government and administration office that handles services such as local zoning, utilities, and taxes.

Accepts reports of fraud, theft, and other incidents of misusing public funds involving elected officials or any public employee in local, county, or state government, and enters them into a centralized statewide incident and investigation management system. Investigates fraud and illegal acts that may affect government resources and assists in the prosecution of subsequent cases. Maintains a public log of fraud reported through the Ohio Fraud Report System. It includes the date of the report, the entity complained of, the nature of the complaint, and the status of the review of the complaint.

Provides Youth and Family Ombudsman. This is a person whose role is to listen to any concerns from youth, young adults, or other adults involved in the children services system. The Ombudsman is independent and neutral; they do not work for a children services agency, title IV-E court, residential facility, or foster care agency. The Ombudsman is there to help resolve concerns. The Ombudsman can listen to concerns about placement, care, services, review the situation, look at documentation, or speak to others to help reach a solution.

Office of Client Rights receives complaints and/or inquiries from individuals, families, and the community to improve the services provided. The office acts as a separate and distinct office and can answer questions and help faciliate resolution of complaints.

Contact the Mayor's office with concerns or questions pertaining to the City of Lancaster.

This office will investigate and resolve concerns made by or on behalf of children and families involved with public children services agencies, Title IV-E agencies, or private provider agencies that administer or oversee foster care or placement services for the children services system. The office will ensure the independent and impartial review of youth, family, and community complaints or concerns.

Provides information about and accepts questions or concerns regarding foster care, child protection, kinship care, adoption, and adult protective services. Also provides information on and responds to questions or concerns about the licensing of foster homes that have been recommended by public and private agencies, private child placement agencies and private non-custodial agencies that operate foster care/adoption programs or residential facilities, or public agencies that operate residential facilities. In some cases, a specialist may refer the client to a contact that handles specific issues concerning services in a specific county.

Accepts reports of fraud, theft, and other incidents of misusing public funds involving elected officials or any public employee in local, county, or state government, and enters them into a centralized statewide incident and investigation management system. Investigates fraud and illegal acts that may affect government resources and assists in the prosecution of subsequent cases. Maintains a public log of fraud reported through the Ohio Fraud Report System. It includes the date of the report, the entity complained of, the nature of the complaint, and the status of the review of the complaint.

Assists low income individuals and families in obtaining social services, including child care assistance, transportation services, adult protection services, HealthChek, PRS.

Allegations of fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement of federal funds are accepted.

Providing direct, personalized advocacy services to help individuals with disabilities obtain or retain employment. Rehabilitation counselors work with individuals one-on-one to plan an individualized program leading to gainful employment.

Accepts and investigates MyCare Ohio complaints for Ohioans covered by both Medicare and Medicaid through this program. Services include: - Provide Ombudsman Core Services (information, advocacy and complaint investigation) for dual-eligible members of MyCare Ohio and the community-well. - Provide information regarding rights and benefits to members, families and providers within the MyCare Ohio service delivery system. - Investigate and resolve complaints regarding MyCare Ohio enrollees and other LTC consumers receiving care from Managed Care Organizations. - Assist and represent MyCare members and families in administrative hearings and appeal situations in accordance with Ombudsman policy.

Provides a means by which individuals may request a state hearing. A state hearing is a meeting with the client, someone from the local agency, and a hearing officer from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). The person from the local agency will explain the action it has taken or wants to take on the case. Then the client will have a chance to tell why they think it is wrong. The hearing officer will listen to both sides of the argument, and may ask questions to help bring out all the facts. The hearing officer will review the facts presented at the hearing, and recommend a decision based on whether or not the rules were correctly followed in the case.

Provides city government community development basic services to the citizens of Cincinnati, including fire and rescue, police protection, solid waste management, recreational activities, green space management, community and economic development, water and sewer management, and maintenance of the public infrastructure

Gives constituents an opportunity to obtain assistance on federal problems. Problem areas must be federally funded and federally administered.

Call the Ombudsman's office when you have exhausted all other resources or more information is needed and you don’t know where to turn. You may also contact them if you aren’t satisfied with BWC or IC services, and you have an emergency that requires immediate action. When you call, please have your BWC claim/policy number or your Social Security number available.

Accepts reports of waste, fraud, theft, and other incidents of misusing public funds or suspected breaches of ethics involving elected officials or employees in eligible government agencies. Investigates and reports findings to entities who have authority to act on information reported by this agency. Issues reports and may recommend changes in county rules if investigations uncover problems system-wide. This is not a law enforcement agency.

Accepts and investigates long term care and MyCare Ohio complaints for Ohioians covered by both Medicare and Medicaid through this program. Services include: - Provides Ombudsman Core Services (information, advocacy and complaint investigation) for dual-eligible members of MyCare Ohio and the community-well. - Provides information regarding rights and benefits to members, families and providers within the MyCare Ohio service delivery system. - Investigates and resolves complaints regarding MyCare Ohio enrollees and other LTC consumers receiving care from Managed Care Organizations. - Assists and represents MyCare members and families in administrative hearings and appeal situations in accordance with Ombudsman policy.

Provides assistance for people who want to register complaints about or have other issues which relate to the activities, actions or lack of action by state agencies or officials in the executive branch of government. Addresses complaints within the governor, governor's cabinet and staff, state agencies, departments, boards, commissions, and any individual appointed, employed, or controlled under the authority of the governor.

Provides auditor of state ,government auditor, performing auditing for state and local public offices, identifies and investigates fraud in public agencies, provides financial services to local governments and promotes transparency in government. for residents of Ohio

Investigates complaints from Montgomery County citizens about all government agencies. Provides information about government services, schools, and social services. Offers information, advice and referral services for all levels of government.

Providing direct, personalized advocacy services to help individuals with disabilities obtain or retain employment. Rehabilitation counselors work with individuals one-on-one to plan an individualized program leading to gainful employment.