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Kinship & Adoption Navigators

February 24, 2022/in Assists Children, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Pregnancy & Parenting Services, Professional Counseling, Shelby, Specialized Counseling /by Andrea Skrlac

OhioKAN

Kinship & Adoption Navigator Program

Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley is thrilled to partner with OhioKAN, a new statewide flexible and responsive kinship and adoption navigator program designed to assist children, caregivers, and families.

The program is designed to assist those who have adopted children as well as those who are providing kinship care.

The first step to access the program is to call 1-844-OHIO-KAN to connect with a navigator who will talk with you to understand your situation and needs. If you and the navigator decide together that we can help you navigate and access important resources, we’ll walk through the OhioKAN BASICS overview to make sure we completely understand your family situation and can start making a plan together.

We’ll use the OhioKAN Information Hub to review more than 8,000 records to find, analyze, and organize all of the resources available to you based on your exact situation, location, and needs. Based on our conversation and resource review, we’ll create a Personalized Resource Plan. This document becomes the action plan for navigating and accessing all of the local and statewide resources that fit your situation.


With the support of dedicated site navigators here at CSSMV, OhioKAN’s 100% free services will help kinship and adoptive families in Champaign, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, and Shelby Counties navigate and connect with all of the resources available locally and statewide.

For more information and helpful resources, as well as a directory of other regional partners serving other areas of Ohio, you can visit the OhioKAN website at https://ohiokan.jfs.ohio.gov.

To connect with a navigator from ANYWHERE in Ohio, call 1-844-OHIO-KAN.



WHAT IS KINSHIP CARE?

PASSS Applications Are Now Available

The purpose of the Post Adoption Special Services Subsidy (PASSS) is to assist Ohio families after the finalization of their adoption. The subsidy is available to all adoptive families regardless of the type of adoption (international, attorney, public or private agency), with the exception of step-parent adoptions. The child DOES NOT have to meet either the federal or state definition of special needs to receive this subsidy. Each child may be eligible for up to $10,000 per year ($15,000 if residential treatment is recommended by a qualified professional).

PASSS funds may be used for reasonable costs of services to address the child’s physical condition, developmental disability, mental health, or emotional condition that either existed prior to the adoption or developed after the adoption and can be attributed to factors in the child’s preadoption background, medical history, or biological family’s background or medical history.

PASSS eligibility requirements:

  • Child/young person resides in Ohio with the adoptive family
  • Child/young person has been adopted by someone other than a step-parent
  • Child/young person has a physical or developmental disability or mental or emotional condition that either existed before the adoption petition was filed or developed after the adoption petition was filed and can be directly attributed to factors in the child/young person’s pre-adoption background or medical history, or biological family’s background or medical history
  • The child/young person is under the age of eighteen OR the child/young person is at least eighteen years of age and less than twenty-one years of age and has been diagnosed with a mental or physical disability
  • Other sources of assistance are inadequate or are unavailable to meet the child/young person’s immediate needs

For more details about PASSS, click HERE.

Eligibility


While CSSMV’s Kinship Navigators serve the specific counties listed above, OhioKAN is a 100% free program available to all kinship and adoptive families in Ohio.

Contact


Call 1-844-OHIO-KAN (1-844-644-6526) to talk one-on-one with an OhioKAN Navigator. Phone lines are open Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Location


CSSMV’s OhioKAN Navigators are based at our Center for Families on Brown Street in Dayton.

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Post-Adoption Support Services

April 25, 2018/in Auglaize, Available To Residents, Champaign, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Pregnancy & Parenting Services, Professional Counseling, Programs & Services, Shelby, Specialized Counseling /by atomic

Post-Adoption Support Services

Adoption is a life-long process and each adoption is unique and special. Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley offers post-adoption services and general adoption information, support for adoptees, and specialized support for adoptive families through our Safe Counseling program.

Whether you’re an adoptee looking for information on your birth family, you’re looking for information about how to adopt a child, or your family includes an adopted child, we have expertise to assist you. The CSSMV professional counseling program is available to adult and child adoptees and their families, and also offers special expertise in the area of attachment disorders.

I was a client or adoptee in CSSMV’s adoption program

CSSMV maintains records for all finalized adoptions that used our adoption placement services.

If you are an adoptee, a birth parent, or an adoptive family whose legal adoption was finalized through CSSMV, we can help you access information from your records.

For assistance, please call (937) 223-7217.

Our family includes an adopted child

Our counseling team has expertise working with adoptive families as they go through the adoptive family life cycle. To learn more about these stages and how CSSMV can help address some of the unique challenges faced by adoptive families, please click HERE. If you’d like to make an appointment at our Dayton Counseling Center or you have questions about our counseling services, please call 937.296.1007.

Some adopted children have difficulty developing an attachment to their adoptive families. In extreme cases, they may be diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder, or RAD. Catholic Social Services’ Safe Counseling program can help. Click HERE for more information.

Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley is also pleased to be partnering with OhioKAN, a new statewide flexible and responsive Kinship and Adoption Navigator program designed to assist children, caregivers, and families. If you are interested in learning about resources that may be available to you as adoptive parents, please click HERE.

I want to adopt a child

We can give you information about open, confidential, and identified adoption options, as well as explaining what to expect from both emotional and logistical/legal perspectives.

We work with Adoption Circle, a private, non-profit, Ohio-licensed adoption agency, and can also connect you to other community resources.

Eligibility


Our services are available to anyone seeking information or resources about adoption, as well as any birth parent, adoptee, or adoptive family whose adoption was finalized through CSSMV.

Contact


Call (937) 223-7217 ext. 2102.

Location


CSSMV Center for Families
1046 Brown Street
Dayton, Ohio 45409

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SAFE Counseling

April 25, 2018/in Auglaize, Available To Residents, Champaign, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Pregnancy & Parenting Services, Professional Counseling, Programs & Services, Shelby, Specialized Counseling /by atomic

SAFE Counseling

From the moment of birth, when a baby struggles to find the first breaths of life, the people and the environment surrounding the child are important to his or her survival. When a child’s birth or early developmental experiences are filled with problems, behavioral issues can arise and begin to magnify as the child grows. A child who has endured trauma may develop an attachment disorder. Children who have been abused or neglected and/or had multiple foster care placements prior to adoption are particularly “at risk” of developing attachment and bonding difficulties.

Conventional parenting, standard school discipline or traditional outpatient therapy are often less than effective for “hard-to-reach” children with an attachment disorder. These children and their families need help, and it is available through Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley’s SAFE Counseling program.

SAFE Counseling is designed to treat children and to educate parents of children who exhibit signs of an attachment disorder. SAFE Counseling offers help to parents of children who have serious issues that seem unsolvable.

Attachment therapy is an integrated treatment approach that uses elements of cognitive-behavioral, object relations, family and psychodynamic therapies to facilitate child-parent bonding and to measure feedback. In conjunction with these therapies, holding therapy is used to establish a safe place with safe people in which the child can safely talk about and experience the painful issues of the past.

The program seeks to jump start the attachment cycle aborted as the result of the child’s earlier trauma. SAFE believes it is essential to break through barriers of trauma before a child can develop healthy interpersonal relations built on trust. SAFE counseling aims to begin the attachment and healing process for the child and the adoptive or current family.

Eligibility


If your child has been diagnosed with an attachment disorder, or if you believe your child may be suffering from this disorder, call us for more information or a screening appointment.

Contact


Call our Dayton Counseling Center at (937) 296-1007.

Location


CSSMV Center for Families
1046 Brown Street
Dayton, Ohio 45409

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Our Counseling Team

February 19, 2018/in Auglaize, Available To Residents, Champaign, Darke, Greene, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Preble, Professional Counseling, Shelby, Specialized Counseling /by Andrea Skrlac

Our Counseling Team


Dayton Counseling Center

Cheryl Lobbestael-Griffin, LISW-S, BCN


Years in Practice:  20+ years

Population:  Adults, children, families and groups

Specialties:  Anxiety, depression, PTSD, complex trauma, adoption related issues, Reactive Attachment Disorder

Therapeutic Approach: Psychodynamic, mindfulness, trauma informed, attachment therapies, cognitive approaches

Degree:  MSW from University of Michigan

Licensing: Licensed Independent Social Work, with supervisory credentials (LISW-S) Certified in EEG-Neurofeedback (BCN)

Licensed by: Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board


Sidney Counseling Center

Bonnie Ihle, MS, LPCC-S


Years in practice:  4+ years

Population: Children, adolescents, adults, families, developmentally disabled and veterans

Specialties:  Depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, anger concerns, PTSD, trauma informed care, marriage and couples

Degree:  MS in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Wright State University

Licensing:  Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, with supervisory credentials (LPCC-S)

Licensed by:  Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board


Dayton Counseling Center

Lisa A. Schauer, LPCC


Years of Practice:  11 years

Population: Adults, Couples, Adolescents 16 yrs. and above

Specialties:  Community medical and behavioral health integration, victims of domestic violence, planning and linking to community resources, depression, anxiety

Therapy Approach:  Client Centered, Solution Focused, Cognitive-Behavioral, Psycho-Educational

Licensing:  Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Licensed Social Worker

Licensed by: Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board


Sidney Counseling Center

Michelle Paulus, MS, LPCC-S


Years in Practice:  20+ years practice working with children, couples, families, individuals, and developmentally disabled population

Specialties:  Treatment of emotional and social issues, depression, anxiety, trauma, and adjustment issues; focus on mental and developmentally disabled individuals, marriage and couples issues, spirituality, early childhood intervention, and parenting skills

Degrees: AA in Communication from Sinclair College, BA in Psychology from University of Dayton, MSEd in Social Agency Counseling from University of Dayton, and Post Graduate in Clinical Counseling from University of Dayton

Licensing:  Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, with supervisory credentials (LPCC-S)

Licensed by:  Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board


Dayton Counseling Center

Shelia Wright Davis, Office Support Manager


Shelia has been with the Dayton Counseling Center since 1980! When you visit or call the Dayton location, she is the friendly face (or voice) who will greet you, help answer your questions about our services, and set you up with an appointment with a counselor who best meets your needs.

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