COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Ohio hit an adoption milestone with the help of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, where more than 1,500 children have been placed into permanent homes. Rita Soronen, president ...

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COLUMBUS — A new Ohio law overhauls and significantly expands existing state incentives for adoptive families, a change that bill sponsors hope will help encourage families to consider adoption as an ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has launched a new grant initiative that will give adoptive parents up to $20,000 per child as part of efforts to encourage people to take in abandoned or abused children. “Every ...

CINCINNATI — The staff at Beech Acres Parenting Center has stood ready to help parents in Cincinnati foster or adopt children for decades. Whether they've been providing emergency supply packs, ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The state of Ohio is seeing an increasing need for foster parents, and now, a new online tool is making it easier to step up for the task. According to a release, a new online ...

Ohioans adopting children can now apply for the Ohio Adoption Grant Program worth up to $20,000. “For adoptive families, this is really a gamechanger because there are a lot of legal costs and other ...

Two central Ohio dog shelters are bringing back their Holiday Sleepover programs that allow people to foster adoptable dogs ...

The bill also creates a new $2,500 grant to pay for college expenses for Ohioans who were adopted after Jan. 1, 2023. The adoption grants aren’t available to step-parent adoptions. For the ...