In Re Hoodlet

Haksha, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered by the Athens County Court of Common Pleas, Juvenile Division, ordering that the Ohio Department of Mental Health (“ODMH”) and the Southern Consortium for Children (“SCC”), appellants, pay the costs involved in placing Michael Hoodlet, an adjudicated delinquent child, in a private residential mental health facility.

ODMH assigns the following error:

“The juvenile court acted beyond the scope of its authority when it ordered the Ohio Department of Mental Health to pay the cost of care of a juvenile placed in a private, non-public mental…