Group home workers lose jobs, residents placed in family homes, except 1

YOUNGSTOWN

Workers at the last remaining Mahoning County Children Services Board group home on Glenwood Avenue received layoff notices Wednesday in a meeting at CSB’s downtown headquarters.

With the last of eight teenagers having moved out of the Glenwood Avenue home Friday, the layoffs of the 22 group-home workers will take effect June 26, said Randall Muth, CSB executive director.

“The part-timers won’t be scheduled” to work, he said, referring to 10 part-time workers.

“The full-timers will be charged with winding down the operations,” he said.

One of the 24 workers who was at the Glenwood group home in April has retired, and another has taken another position within CSB, Muth said.

The homes will be transferred to the nonprofit organizations that own them

The group-home residents moved in with relatives or went to family foster homes, and one ran away, Muth said.

Read more about the situation in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.