Provides a referral service to help families find appropriate child care options, including child care centers, and licensed individuals who provide child care in their own homes. Provides consumer education materials on what to look for when selecting and evaluating a child care program and quality child care indicators. Support families in finding child care financial assistance options they may be eligible for and navigation of application process.

Provides a wide range of services for families, including referrals to child care and early education programs that meet their family needs for child care. Provides assistance to parents and families on a variety of parenting topics, including discipline, literacy and special needs. Provides childcare provider training, a lending library with books and supplies for childcare providers, fingerprinting services, and the Step Up To Quality program for type A childcare providers.

Provides information about becoming a foster or adoptive parent and provides training. The program also provides kinship caregivers with a variety of services and supports to encourage stable and successful placements with the children in their care. Relatives meet the children’s needs while working with the parents to complete a case plan. Services include counseling, educational support, and financial assistance.

Provides a foster home placement for children who do not have emotional and/or behavioral problems and a Treatment Foster Care program that provides foster homes for children with emotional and/or behavioral problems. Recruits, trains, licenses, and supports foster parents.

Offers a flexible and responsive kinship and adoption navigator program designed to assist children, caregivers, and families statewide. Helps kinship and adoptive families navigate and connect with all of the resources, supports, and services available to them locally and statewide.

Provision of specially trained foster parents in the community and surrounding area to provide safe, supportive home placements for youth with mental, emotional, and behavioral treatment needs.

Serves as a network foster care provider for children in custody of Summit, Cuyahoga, Franklin, and surrounding counties. Provides temporary family living arrangements in agency-supervised private family homes for children who have been relinquished for adoption but have not yet been permanently placed.

4C for Children provides free child care referrals to families through a comprehensive database of child care centers, preschool programs, family child care homes, Head Start programs and after-school programs.

Provides information and referral of social services and benefits information to older adults. Will provide assessments in the home for residents when needed. Offers counseling to help seniors cope with life-style changes, personal, marital, and family problems. Assist with forms completion and maintains a registry of chore service providers

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.

Develops foster and adoptive families for children who have come into the care and custody of a public agency due to dependency, abuse or neglect. Provides information, education and support for those who wish to adopt. Conducts evaluations and home studies of prospective adoptive families.

JFS can provide information about the different types of adoption or foster care that are available as options and the requirements and procedures for adopting or fostering another individual. JFS also links individuals who are in need of alternative living arrangements with appropriate private family homes that are licensed to provide foster care.

Child Care Resource and Referral Services include: - free referrals to child care programs and community resources for families - providing information about indicators of quality in child care programs - assistance and classes for parents on a variety of parenting topics, - professional development and technical assistance for early educational professionals - coordinating initiatives that impact child care programs, - collection of data for public awareness, advocacy and workforce development - collaborating with local community organizations to develop services and programs that affect children, families, and early childhood education professionals.

Offers a free service where you are partnered with one community health worker who will walk alongside you to help connect you to the local resources you need to become stronger and healthier. The HUB is a regional care coordination network focused on improving health outcomes. We partner with primary care, behavioral health, social service providers, and health payers to develop a better coordinated and connected delivery network for low-income residents in our community who are at high risk of poor health outcomes.

Provides a foster home placement for children who do not have emotional and/or behavioral problems. Also provides a Treatment Foster Care program that provides foster homes for children with emotional and/or behavioral problems.

Provides pre-service training and home studies assessments for prospective foster care and adoptive families. Those who go on to adopt receive pre-custody services, subsidized services, finalization and post-custody services. Provides monthly board rate plus medical and clothing expenses for the child in foster care.

Provide financial assistance to cover day care costs on behalf of low income families so they may participate in OWF and/or education or training to maintain employment. This department also certifies day care providers to provide services through subsidized child care program.

Substitute home care for children and adolescents whose parents are temporarily unable to care for them. Program includes foster home recruitment and training and support services to children served, foster families and birth parents. Includes traditional, specialized and therapeutic foster care.

Offers information and support for families.

Stabilize families harmed by parental drug use. Provides quick access to substance abuse treatment, shared decision making with providers and the family, increase parent recovery services, family-centered services.

Provides information and support for individuals and families interested in becoming foster parents. Services include guidance throughout the decision-making process, assistance with foster care licensing requirements, connections to community resources, and access to Starting Point’s child care referral services. Helps participants research options and navigate the foster care system as part of Ohio Department of Children and Youth’s It Takes 100% Heart campaign.

Provides families with referrals to child care programs that best meet a family's specific needs, offers information on how to choose quality care and provides other family resources.

Offers foster home placement, clinical services and case management for children who have been abused or neglected and are experiencing emotional or adjustment problems.

The purpose of the Adult Foster Home Program is to assist aged, blind & disabled adults who need some assistance or supervision but do not require skilled nursing care. Residents receive help with personal care to remain in the community in a safe and supervised environment. Adult Foster Home providers are individuals or families with the desire and ability to help others. Providers share their home and family life with either one or two residents. Being a provider involves a commitment to provide room, meals, accommodations and personal care to the residents living in the home. Adult Foster Homes must conform to prescribed guidelines on space, furnishings, nutrition, safety and cleanliness. Caregivers may have to reconfigure their homes in order to meet such guidelines designed to protect both the operator and the resident.