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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.

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

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.

Full service licensed adoption agency that provides all functions pertaining to adoptions such as training, home studies, relinquishment, post placement visits, facilitation between birthparents and adoptive parents to ensure they form a positive adoption relationship and experience.

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.

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

Provides training and support groups for adoptive and foster families.

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.

State Department website provides information to adopting parents and to adoption agencies involved in the intercountry adoption process. General as well as country-specific information provided: http://www.adoption.state.gov.

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

Provides foster care, adoption and mentoring services to local children and teens in the child welfare system by recruiting, preparing, and supporting specialized families and supports. Also offer family and treatment foster care, step parent adoptions, foster/adoptive parent education classes, parent resource groups, pre/post adoption support services, mentoring, resources/referrals, and home studies. Diverse and inclusive. All Families-All Children Seal for LGBTQ+. COA Accredited.

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 counseling services for adoptive, kinship, and birth families, other families and individuals.

Recruits, prepares, 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. Handles infant, international and special needs adoptions, such as older children and foster children. Conducts parent training for international adoptions.

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 twice 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.

Offers assistance with the adoption process for the foster care / adoption of abused and neglicted children.

Offers adoption, foster care, and therapeutic foster care services for youth. Provides behavioral and mental health services for those within NYAP’s Foster Care programs. Also provides extensive training and support for fostering parents.

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.

Offers individual and family counseling for foster-to-adopt and post-adoptive families. Assists adoptive families strengthen relationships and focus on specific mental health needs of the child.

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 adoption services. Matches children in permanent custody with adoptive families. Includes adoptive parent recruitment, education and training, adoption preparation services, and ongoing supportive counseling from initial placement through adoption finalization. Provides post-adoption services to assist families with emerging needs as they arise. Provides information and referral services for birth parents considering an adoption plan for their unborn child.

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.

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.