Foster Care and Adoption Social Workers recruit, license, and provide support services to Foster Caregivers and Adoptive Families. Foster Care and Adoption Social Workers work directly with children who are in Child Protective Services Permanent Custody to help them transition to their new adoptive family.

Equally important is the matching of children who need foster or adoptive placement with the caregivers most able to meet the child’s needs. Foster Care and Adoption Social workers utilize the ‘Child Study’ provided by the Family Based Care Social Worker and an Adoption Matching Tool in the matching process of all adoptive placements.

Foster Care and Adoption Departmental Responsibilities:

• Foster Care

• Kinship Care

• Adoption and Related Services

Click here to learn how to become a Foster or Adoptive Parent.  

Click here for Ohio’s Effective Practice Standards for Foster Care.

Click here for Ohio’s Effective Practice Standards for Adoption.

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