Local Agency Addresses Commissioners

ZANESVILLE, Ohio – Muskingum County has several agencies that oversee the many needs required by its residents. 

Monday, the Muskingum County Commissioners met with Adult and Child Protective Services Executive Director Candy Emmert to hear details on how the agency is serving the community. 

“We shared some of the information about our agency and some of the numbers that we’re facing in the community,” Emmert said. “We shared that Avondale was the first youth center in Ohio that made the QRTP, which is qualified residential treatment program designation in the state. We’re super proud of that.”

Emmert explained how the agency is continuously evolving to meet the needs of the community as well as the state’s ever changing funding requirements. 

“We currently, probably, are serving about 225-to-250 families,” Emmert said. “We’re involved with also a lot of kinship families that we support and our foster homes that we’re very appreciative of. So we are out there in all areas of the community. We have three different locations and we really appreciate the support. We just went through Christmas, went through the holiday and we had a lot of people that helped us to be able to do that and we’re really lucky with the community support.”

Monday’s meeting updated the commissioners with the number of cases and the scope of issues that the agency is facing.