What We Do

UMCH Family Services provides homes through our Treatment Foster Care Program, finds homes through our Adoption Program and strengthens homes through our Outpatient Family Mental Health Service Program for children and families in need. UMCH Family Services is a ministry of the West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church.

Throughout the years, the way we have served children has changed to meet the needs of a changing world, but the mission has remained the same “to strengthen our community by providing care, nurture and treatment for hurting children and families”.

We have gone from being The Children’s Home, to being homes, dozens and dozens of them, for children — providing homes through Treatment Foster Care, finding homes through Adoption and strengthening homes through Outpatient Mental Health Services for families.

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Our Services

Adoption

Adoption
UMCH Family Services has a long-standing heritage in and around adoption. For more than a century, we have been helping to create permanent families through adoption. In fact, many children were adopted from what used to be referred to as the Children’s Home in our earlier years.
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Treatment Foster Care

Treatment Foster Care
The UMCH Family Services Foster Team specializes in Treatment Foster Care. When used to describe Foster Care, the word “treatment” refers to an advanced level of therapeutic assistance for the child in care.
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Outpatient Mental Health Services

Outpatient Mental Health Services
UMCH Family Services focuses on strengthening the children, adolescents and their families through counseling and supportive services. Our multidisciplinary treatment team is comprised of a variety of certified clinicians.
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Psychiatry

Psychiatry
Psychiatry can be a critical component in mental health treatment. We offer a robust psychiatric department at UMCH Family Services. Psychiatrists and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners can evaluate a child for the need for further testing, help parents and children understand mental health symptoms and prescribe medication.
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Intensive Home-Based Treatment

Intensive Home-Based Treatment
Some children and adolescents experience challenges that require more intensive counseling services than traditional once-a-week appointments can provide. Intensive Home-Based Treatment may be appropriate when a young person is experiencing more serious emotional or behavioral disturbances.
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