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- EIN 47-3674005
- (330) 697-4751
- 11 River Street Kent OH 44240-3581 USA
- openarmsadopt.com
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Causes: Adoption, Children & Youth
Mission: Open arms adoptions is a full-service domestic adoption agency. The clients for whom we provide direct services fall into one of three categories: women in crisis over an unplanned/untimely pregnancy, families who wish to adopt infants and families who hope to adopt children from the foster care system. Additionally, one of our primary goals is to raise awareness of the number of us children in the foster care system who are legally free for adoption and to increase the number of families ready and able to provide permanence for those children. Open arms adoptions provides counseling services to prospective birth parents regarding options for their unborn children to include assistance with parenting, kinship placements and adoption. We provide case management services, referral services and financial support to these young women. Families working with open arms adoptions receive comprehensive training designed to prepare them for the experience of being matched with and eventually par
Programs: Infant adoption - in our first full year of operations, open arms adoptions provided counseling, material support and/or referral services to over 18 birth parents, and, in some cases, to their parents and siblings as well. These contacts led to 5 infants being placed for adoption and plans for the remaining clients to parent their children. Informal partnerships between oaa and local crisis pregnancy centers have been formed to provide for the needs of clients regardless of their ultimate decision regarding whether or not to parent their children. Plans for the upcoming year include doubling the number of clients served in this capacity and to formalize partnerships.
foster care adoption - during 2016, oaa provided permanent placements for 9 children, including two sibling groups of 3. Oaa identifies children both within and outside the state of ohio who are legally free for adoption and residing in a foster care setting, matching those children with families ready to adopt. We provide both pre-placement training as well as ongoing counseling and supportive services to families and children throughout the placement process and beyond. Our hope is to continue to grow the program throughout the next year, with the goal of doubling the number of placements, with particular attention paid to recruiting and developing families prepared to adopt sibling groups.
training programs - open arms adoptions provides both pre-service and ongoing training to foster and adoptive parents. Our pre-service training exceeds that which is required by ohio rules for adoptive families and meets the requirements of the state of licensed foster families. This training program focuses on attachment and trauma-based parenting strategies designed to assist families with the healing their children need. Our goal in the next two years is to devise and implement a training program for mental health professionals focused on increasing the number of "adoption competent" therapists available to children and families in need.