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

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Adoptive Family Recruitment
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Trains individuals and families to provide foster care for dependent children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment and need an alternative family living arrangement.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Provides foster home placement for youth ages up to 21. Who have been determined dependent, abused, or involved with the juvenile justice system. Services include foster home recruiting, foster parent training, placement of youth, and ongoing services to youth/foster parents during placement.

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Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Arranges placement of children, who have been court-ordered into the agency's custody because of abuse/neglect/dependency, into licensed foster placement sites until children can be reunited with family or adopted. Identifies, enlists, trains, and certifies adults who are willing and qualified to provide foster care services in their homes for children in agency custody. Provides on-going, supportive services to foster parents; children in foster care; and the children's families of origin who are working on reunification plans.
Offers Levels I-IV foster care for children removed from their homes. Some of the children have experienced multi disruptions and previous placements and usually have been diagnosed with some level of emotional disturbance. Foster parents help prepare children in their care for reunification with their families, for adoption, or for independent living (for older teens).

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Mental Illness/Emotional Disabilities
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Provides planned, time limited placement for infants and children with major medical problems, handicaps, developmental disabilities and/or traumatic separation issues beyond those that can be handled in traditional foster family care. Foster caregivers receive extensive training and support and are licensed by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. Treatment plans are supervised and approved by a registered nurse. Recruits and provides training to families who are interested in providing a temporary home to these children.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Services to provide foster homes for families who, because of a family crisis, can not remain together. Severe alcoholism, inadequate care and supervision of children, physical or sexual abuse, severe financial problems, mental or physical illness, loss of parents through death or desertion or severe marital stress are examples of why children come into foster care. The length of placement can be for short periods of time, sometimes just for a weekend, or for several years. During that time foster parents receive a small stipend for the child in order to defray the costs of food, housing and clothing, and school supplies. Medical expenses for the child are also paid by the county. Foster Parent training is also offered for those interested, call for class schedule..
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.

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Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Offers placement for youth in county custody who are in need of loving homes. The Medically Fragile program places children with medical problems, handicaps, developmental disabilities and/or traumatic separation issues. Treatment Foster Care is an alternative to residential care for emotionally troubled children ages 4 to 18 who need to learn ways to deal with unhealthy behaviors. Foster caregivers receive extensive support and training. Foster caregivers are licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.
Offers assistance with the adoption process for the foster care / adoption of abused and neglicted children.

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Adoption Services
Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Identifies and enlists people who are willing to provide foster care for dependent children who are in the temporary or permanent custody of Carrol County Department of Job and Family Services.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Foster Home Placement
Provides foster care for emotionally troubled children (including those with severe emotional issues as well as those who may have suffered abuse or neglect) whose needs may be greater than those addressed by traditional foster care. Aims to build children's self-confidence; improve communication and interpersonal skills; reduce risk taking behavior; and boost academic performance. Also provides families for groups of siblings and older adolescents (who are often more difficult to place). Foster parents are trained to use parenting techniques designed for children with emotional and behavioral problems. Recruits and provides training to families who would like to become foster parents to the children in this program.

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Mental Illness/Emotional Disabilities
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Provides agency-supervised private family homes in which foster parents have been trained to provide individualized, structured services in a safe, nurturing family living environment for children and adolescents with significant emotional or behavioral problems who require a higher level of care than is found in a conventional foster home but do not require placement in a more restrictive setting.

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Foster Home Placement
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Child protective services for children between the ages of birth and 18; investigates cases of child abuse/neglect/sexual abuse/incest and dependency of children, family assessment; case management services for children/families with open cases; kinship care; foster care; foster parent/home licensing, training; adoption/post adoption services; independent youth living services.

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Professional Continuing Education
Case/Care Management
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Kinship Care
Licensing/Certification/Accreditation
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Child Abuse Reporting/Emergency Response
Abused Children
Child Abuse Prevention
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Child Abuse Hotlines
Foster Home Placement
Child Sexual Exploitation Reporting
Provides services for prospective adoptive parents.

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Foster Home Licensing
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Trains individuals and families to provide foster care for dependent children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment and need an alternative family living arrangement.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Provides planned, time limited placement for infants and children with major medical problems, handicaps, developmental disabilities and/or traumatic separation issues beyond those that can be handled in traditional foster family care. Foster caregivers receive extensive training and support and are licensed by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services. Treatment plans are supervised and approved by a registered nurse. Recruits and provides training to families who are interested in providing a temporary home to these children.

Trains individuals and families to provide foster care for dependent children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment and need an alternative family living arrangement.

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.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster parents are needed to provide temporary homes and care for children who are unable to live in their own homes due to the substantial risk of abuse and/or neglect. There is a very great need for more foster parents. Currently, there are not enough foster parents in Licking County to serve the increasing number of children who are placed in foster care. Too often children are placed in foster homes in other counties, which makes it more difficult to provide services to the child, foster family and birth family.
Provides foster care for children who have been removed from the home by a county agency as well as hard to place children (such as those with behavioral issues, disabilities, or health issues). The children receive case management (to link them to appropriate community and medical services) and individualized services from a team of professionally-trained foster families and social workers. This program is intended as a short-term solution with the goal of reunifying the primary family whenever possible. Transition support for children who are aging out of the foster care system is also provided. Recruits and trains families who are interested in providing foster care to children with special needs.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Homes for Children With Disabilities
Provides licensing for foster and adoptive parents who are dedicated to making a difference in a child's life.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Provides training events for individuals and families to provide foster care for dependent children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, neglect, or abandonment and need an alternative family living arrangement. Also provides trainings for adoptive and kinship families.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Oversees providing safe, temporary homes for children who cannot safely remain in their own homes. Purpose of program is to reunify children with their families and/or to find other permanent living arrangements when children cannot return home.

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Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Coordinates the recruitment, screening, and selection of prospective foster and adoptive parents.

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Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Adoptive Family Recruitment
Adoption Services
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment