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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WKRC) - A Ohio boy was sent back to his biological mom after his foster family said they wanted to adopt him. Then he was murdered by her. Timmeka Eggleton, 31, pleaded guilty on ...

A family is claiming discrimination by an Ohio agency after they were denied the opportunity to reunite biological brothers, one of whom is with a different foster family. The family is Muslim, and ...

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 ...