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Substitute Care Functions

When children continue to be at risk of abuse or neglect and services cannot lower that risk, the children are removed from their home and placed into a foster home.   The family is linked with services to remove the barriers or situations that led to the removal of the child.  Periodic review through case planning and the semi-annual review of the child’s custody status by Children Services and Juvenile Court occurs with the goal of returning the child to his own home or placing him in an alternative permanent placement.

 

 

 

Foster/Adoption Services Unit

 

  

FOSTER/ADOPTIVE FAMILY WORKER FUNCTIONS


The foster family caseworker certifies the family foster homes.  Family foster homes are re-certified every 2 years.  Training for foster and adoptive families is provided on an ongoing basis.  The foster family caseworker arranges the placement of children in SCCS foster homes and provides assistance to foster parents with on-going placement issues.  This worker also facilitates Family Case Conferences.  


Case management services to children in the agency’s permanent custody are provided by the permanency caseworker in this unit until the child is placed in an adoptive home.  Once the child is in pre-adoptive placement, the Adoption Specialist is assigned as the caseworker until finalization.  The Adoption Specialist works with the child and adoptive family to prepare all for life change that accompanies adoption.  

 

 

If a child is not adopted by his/her foster parent, a search for an adoptive family is conducted  through community resources, child specific recruitment activities, and the Ohio Adoption Photo Listing. The adoption subsidies are negotiated and re-determined in this unit.  Adoptive search assistance is also provided to assist adoptees in obtaining social and medical history. 

 

   

 
 
   

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