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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.

Voice of Hope Pregnancy Center offers the following free and confidential services. - Laboratory-grade Pregnancy Tests - Limited First Trimester Ultrasound - Confidential Peer-Counseling - Information on abstinence, abortion, adoption and STDs - Referrals for medical care, social services and adoption - Maternity Clothing - Baby Clothing up to Size 4T - Earn While You Learn - prenatal and parenting education classes - Support for women who have experienced miscarriage or abortion - Speakers for organizations and events - 24 Hour Helpline - 1-800-712-HELP(4357)

Women's Center-Lebanon provides client services for someone facing an unplanned pregnancy. Services are free and confidential and are tailored to help the client think through all options, including abortion, adoption and parenting. Women's Center-Lebanon offers abortion alternatives including pregnancy tests and ultrasounds to determine the fetus age, viability and more. Offers free pregnancy tests and assistance, free ultrasounds, post-abortion support, and mentoring services. Also offers free material assistance, such as infant formula, diapers, infant needs, etc. Quantities and ability to earn material assistance are determined by agency.

Women’s Center–Kettering provides client services for someone facing an unplanned pregnancy. Services are free and confidential and are tailored to help the client think through all options, including abortion, adoption, and parenting. Women's Center offers abortion alternatives including pregnancy tests and ultrasound to determine the fetus age and viability, and more. Offers free pregnancy test and assistance,free ultrasounds, post-abortion support group, and men's services and mentoring services. Also offers free material assistance, such as infant formula, diapers, infant needs etc. Quantities and ability to earn material assistance are determined by agency. Offices are located on the second floor of the Mama DiSalvo building, behind the restaurant. There is private, confidential parking in the rear parking lot.

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.

The Children Services Unit investigates reports of abuse and neglect. This unit also assumes responsibility for dependent children. Ongoing protective services to families and children identified to be a risk of further abuse or neglect. Foster care and adoption services are provided. Alternative Response is a form of practice in child protective services that allows for more than one method of response to accepted reports of suspected child abuse and/or neglect.

Offers support to men who desire to grow with respect to fathering. Topics include: pregnancy/childbirth, healthy relationships, family dynamics, and infant care.

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.

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 referrals to adoption agencies and other service providers.

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

Offers adoption evaluation and placement services.

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.

Designed to open up the loving choice of adoption as a real, viable option in a crisis or problem pregnancy.

Provides a workshop that covers the full range of adoption options for prospective families, including public adoption from foster care, private adoption, and international adoption. Following the workshop content participants from a panel of each of three adoption options (public, private, and international) to learn more about their experiences. Information and resources offered during the workshop help families decide about the best route for their adoption journey. Provides a second workshop for those who decide to pursue a private adoption. Second workshop goes into more detail about the specific process for a private infant adoption, including how to select an agency, an overview of creating a profile for a birth parent to learn about the potential parents, details of a home study, and a discussion about openness in the adoption. also offers a workshop about adopting from foster care.

Helps birth parents understand the various adoption routes that are available including adoption through the agency, identified adoption through a client contact or independent adoption with an attorney. Once a choice is made, emotional support is offered and individualized adoption plans are developed. Birth parents receive free pregnancy or adoption counseling, paid medical costs, participation in selecting the adoptive family and mediation of contact between the biological and adoptive parents.

Provides postadoption counseling, pregnancy testing, and STD testing to students on the campus of OSU/NCSC. * Services and information offered are pro-life based.

Provides training and support for parents who are interested in adopting children who have been placed with them. Also provides post-adoption support and mental health services for adoptive families.

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 general mental health counseling for adults, children and adolescents in individual sessions.

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.

Provides client services for someone facing an unplanned pregnancy, Services are free and confidential and are tailored to help the client think through all options, including abortion, adoption, and parenting. Women's Center offers abortion alternatives including pregnancy tests and ultrasound to determined the fetus age and viability, and more. Offers free pregnancy test and assistance, free ultrasounds, post-abortion support group, and mentoring services. Also offers free material assistance, such as infant formula, diapers, infant needs etc. Quantities and ability to earn material assistance are determined by agency.

Women’s Center–Dayton offers abortion alternatives including free pregnancy tests and ultrasound scans to those who qualify. Free and confidential consultations are provided to clients who are pregnant so can understand options: adoption, abortion, or parenting. Program provides a 24 hour helpline, free pregnancy test and assistance, free ultrasound, post-abortion support, information about abortion alternatives and mentoring services. Material assistance: free infant formula and diapers, baby and infant equipment. Quantities and ability to earn material assistance are determined by agency.

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

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.