Penny Walker- Executive Director-KHK Milford OH made the following statements in a letter to ODJFS regarding a host home license complaint made on 12-4-2000:
"12/14/2000
Our clients do not actually move into a host home, since they do not take their possessions or any more than a change of clothes. There parents maintain custody. The Ohio Department of Education has determined that clients use the Kids Helping Kids address as their "home" and therefore go to Milford Schools regardless of their family home address or their host home assignment. Assignments are made by Kids Helping Kids staff for clinical and security reasons."
Further on down in the letter... about the host home fee... etc...
"The fee probably does not offset the expense of having the child in the home and transporting him or her back and forth to the program. However, the parents are also transporting their own child. Kids receive breakfast and a snack in the host home. Other meals are provided here. We are closed on Sunday and the kids are in the host home that day. Hope this helps. I am looking forward to our meeting on January 9th."
