Mandated to investigate reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of senior citizens age 60 and above.

The purpose of the Post Adoption Special Services Subsidy (PASSS) is to assist Ohio families after the finalization of their adoption. The child does NOT have to meet either the federal or state definition of special needs to receive this subsidy. Each child may be eligible for up to $10,000 per year ($15,000 if residential treatment is recommended by a qualified professional).

Handles special needs adoptions, such as older children, children with behavioral issues, and children with disabilities and/or health issues. Recruits, prepares, trains, educates and supports prospective adoptive parents, including relative caregivers seeking to adopt. Adoption specialists provide a complete adoption home study. Provides post-placement supervision, support and court finalization of the adoption.

Provides information about adoptions in the State of Ohio. Maintains a state-wide web site with photographs, stories and local agency contact information about children waiting for adoption. The actual processing of adoptions is done by local private/public agencies under contract with ODJFS to provide this service.

Arranges permanent homes for children whose natural parents are unable or unwilling to provide for their care. Provides information and training regarding special needs adoption, conducts family assessments for persons interested in adopting available children and assists in completing requests for information from adoptees, adoptive families, and birth families.

Provides child placement, adoption and follow-up services.

Meets with pre-adoptive individuals or couples who wish to adopt a child to evaluate the home environment in which the adopted child would reside and establish the suitability of the individual(s) to become adoptive parents. The home study assessment explores the individual's or couple's reasons for wanting to adopt, their personalities, habits, life experiences and parenting ability or potential as a means of determining the kind of child best suited for placement in their home.

Provides pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing and treatment, and information about adoption and parenting. The Center's patients may qualify for a wide range of services, including education classes, baby formula, baby wipes, and diapers.

OhioKAN is a flexible and responsive kinship and adoption navigator program designed to assist children, caregivers, and families statewide. OhioKAN's number one goal is to help kinship and adoptive families navigate and connect with all of the resources, supports, and services available to them locally and statewide. The OhioKAN process includes an initial conversation via our statewide phone line (1-844-OHIOKAN), in which an OhioKAN Navigator talks directly with kinship and adoptive families to understand their situation and needs and together determine if OhioKAN can help. If the family and Navigator decide together that OhioKAN can help navigate and access important resources, they complete an assessment overview to begin making a plan together. After this review, the Navigator utilizes the OhioKAN Information Hub to review more than 10,000 local and statewide records to find, analyze, and organize all of the resources available to the family based on their exact situation, location, and needs. These resources are collected into a Personalized Resource Plan, which the family can use as an action plan for accessing all of the local and statewide resources they deserve. The Navigator follows up with the family to ensure they are able to access these resources and address any new or continued challenge

Provides information about adoption, foster care issues, and free adoption matching services and help support families through the home study process.

Provides a mutual consent reunion registry for adults desiring a reunion with next-of-kin in cases where they were separated at some point due to adoption, divorce, foster care, institutional care, abandonment, etc.

Program to place children in permanent adoptive homes. Services include home assessments for prospective adoptive families, preplacement services, assistance to obtain subsidy, and post-finalization services. Also provides non-identifying background information to adult adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents. Includes special needs adoption.

Women’s Center–East offers free medical-quality pregnancy tests as well as ultrasound evaluations, abortion information, and consulting on pregnancy decisions. All services are free and confidential to ensure that decisions made about a client's health are based upon sound, factual medical information in a comfortable, professional center. Also offers information about abortion and alternatives, free ultrasounds, post-abortion support and mentoring services. Quantities and ability to earn material assistance are determined by the agency.

Provides Mandated Reporter Training seminars for Day Care Centers to help staff identify and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Provides information and referrals to those looking for adoption resources. Also followed up with a Personalized Resource Plan to make sure the families are able to access the resources they need.

Provides free counseling and support for pregnant women or birth parents considering an adoption plan for their newborn, infant, or child. Ongoing support after adoption placement includes a birth mother-only healing retreat held three (3) times a year, monthly pizza meet-ups for support of birth mothers, and a Facebook page for birth mothers.

In Ohio, public and private agencies have thousands of children waiting for adoption. Children range in age from toddlers to teenagers. Most of the children waiting for adoption fall into one or more ‘special needs’ groups. Some waiting children have special needs because they are older, are members of a racial minority or belong to a group of brothers and/or sisters who want to be adopted together. Some have emotional, medical, or developmental problems or a medical or family history which puts them at risk for problems after adoption.

Provides adoptions and foster care information and services for children who are in the temporary or permanent custody of the Brown County Job and Family Services, which includes adoptive/foster parent recruitment, education and training, preparation services, and ongoing support.

Trains foster parents to provide temporary 24-hour care to children in the custody of the state of Kentucky. Also assists families in adopting children placed in their care when appropriate.

One-on-one mentoring. Participants in program earn items needed items for their baby: clothes, maternity clothes, diapers, layettes, strollers, etc. Does not always have baby formula. Call to check if formula is in stock.

Mandated to investigate reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of senior citizens age 60 and above.

Mandated to investigate reports of abuse, neglect or exploitation of senior citizens age 60 and above.

Accepts applications, processes, and rules on changing the status of a child born outside the United States to allow the child to be adopted by a United States citizen. Program is not a source of general information on international adoption.

Provides medical and educaitonal services to students on the campus of OSU/NCSC.