CCSWO Domestic Adoption
Catholic Charities SouthWestern Ohio is a Private Child Placing Agency which provides personal, professional services to families seeking to adopt both special needs and non-special needs infants. Our goal is to preserve, strengthen and promote family life. The agency and social workers have a threefold responsibility in our services to meet the needs of the child, the birthparents and the adopting parents.
All Ohio rules and regulations will be followed in the preparation, process of the homestudy, and placement of the child, which includes pre-adoption education, documentation, interviews, and post-placement service.
All families will be considered for all adoptive placement opportunities based on their requests and statement of acceptability. Most adoptions involve some degree of openness between birthparents and adoptive parents.
Types of Adoptions
- Agency Adoption
- CCSWO accepts a permanent surrender and places the child with the selected approved family
- Identified Adoption
- CCSWO provides services for families and birthparents who have identified each other
- Interagency Adoption
- CCSWO provides services to families who are able to adopt a child in the custody of another agency
- Independent Adoption
- CCSWO will provide services including homestudies for families who wish to adopt through an attorney
Adoption Process
- Attend free informational meetings given (2-3) times a year
- Application
- Meet with social worker
- Provide required documentation
- Attend pre-adoption education classes
- Interviews for homestudy
- Written homestudy approved
- Sharing of Dear Birthparent letters
- Placement
- Post placement visits
- Finalization
Adoption Profiles
