Creating Safe, Nurturing and Stable Homes

Bellefaire JCB’s foster care and adoption programs provide children and youth with safe, nurturing, and stable homes when they cannot remain with their biological families. Our services promote healing, healthy development, and lasting connections with families who can meet each child’s emotional and physical needs. We are committed to ensuring that every child experiences security, compassion, and a true sense of belonging.

Contact our adoption team at 216.509.9020 or request more information.

Contact our foster care team at 216.320.8251 or 800.205.8534 or request more information.

Adoption

Adoption provides children with the love, stability, and permanency they deserve. It can also fulfill the desire of families to expand or complete their circle of love, or help birthparents place their child in a safe, supportive, and nurturing home.

Bellefaire is one of the nation’s longest-established child placement and adoption agencies. We provide adoption services to prospective adoptive families, expectant parents, and adoptees, guided by experienced, licensed social workers, counselors, and certified adoption assessors.

 

Our services and support extend though every step of the adoption process and include:

  • Pre-and post-adoption counseling
  • Facilitating adoptive placements
  • Counseling/financial assistance to birth parents
  • Home study services for domestic and international adoptions*
  • Post placement supervision and reports

*Bellefaire is a Hague-Accredited International Adoption Program.

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For Adoptive Families

Adoption is a lifelong decision that requires guidance, support, and professional expertise at every stage. Our team ensures a positive experience and smooth transition before, during, and after adoption. Services for adoptive families include:

  • Pre-adoption counseling to define hopes and expectations
  • Comprehensive services including home study, post-placement supervision, and court finalization
  • Post-finalization counseling and related support

Bellefaire supports the following types of adoption:

  • Waiting Child
  • Identified Infant
  • Self-directed Infant
  • International

We welcome single parent households, married couples, and LGBTQ+ families. We do not discriminate based on age, race, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Prospective families receive guidance through paperwork, virtual trainings, interviews, family profile creation, and child placement.

Adoptive Family Resources
 
For Expectant Parents

Expectant parents are partnered with a birth parent counselor to explore all options and receive compassionate, judgment-free support. Services include:

  • Counseling to explore options for the child’s future
  • Non-judgmental counseling and emotional support
  • Financial assistance as regulated by the State of Ohio
  • Referrals to community resources
  • Ongoing support navigating open adoption relationships

All services for expectant parents are provided at no cost.

Speak With an Adoption Specialist Now!
216.509.8020

Treatment Foster Care

Our Treatment Foster Care program serves youth up to age 21 who have experienced chronic trauma, abuse, or significant mental health challenges and require a family-based placement. Bellefaire equips foster parents with extensive training, ongoing support, and access to a full array of wraparound services across the agency. This ensures that youth receive individualized, high-quality care in a loving, stable home, helping them heal, grow, and thrive.

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Wraparound Services

Each foster youth is treated as an individual. Their needs are carefully assessed at intake and monitored throughout their time in the program. Youth receive individualized treatment planning and coordinated services. Our team of social workers, therapists, and case managers provides weekly case management, ongoing diagnostic assessment, and psychiatric consultation. Additional services include:

  • Psychiatric and pharmacological management
  • Co-occurring mental health and substance use treatment
  • Alcohol/drug assessment and treatment
  • After-school group therapy
  • Individual and group therapy
Foster to Adopt

While the primary goal of Treatment Foster Care is reunification with a child’s family, this is not always possible. Foster parents can become certified as Foster-to-Adopt homes, providing youth with permanent families to support and nurture them into adulthood.

Reources for Current Foster Parents
 

Could You Be a Foster Parent?

Foster parenting is an opportunity to make a lasting difference in the life of a child or young person who has experienced abuse, neglect or other significant challenges. At Bellefaire, our treatment foster parents provide a safe, stable and supportive home while working as part of a team to help youth heal, build skills and move toward a brighter future.

Explore the FAQs below to learn more about foster parenting and what to expect. When you’re ready to explore whether foster parenting is right for you, we’re here to help.

Contact us to learn more and begin your journey as a foster parent:
216.320.8251 

Foster Parenting at Bellefaire JCB

Foster parents must meet certain requirements to become licensed. The following outlines the qualifications and steps involved in becoming a Bellefaire JCB foster parent.

  • 21 years of age
  • Ability to pass criminal background checks
  • Ability to pass county and state abuse/neglect background checks
  • Appropriate, safe housing
  • Sufficient income to maintain household expenses and support the financial burden of adding a foster youth to your home
  • Ability to attend necessary training in order to achieve and maintain licensure
  • Single, married or same sex – marital status and/or sexual orientation does not affect your ability to become a foster parent with Bellefaire JCB

Successful foster parents bring patience, consistency, flexibility, and emotional maturity to their role. They are willing to:

  • Look beyond a young person’s behavior to understand the needs and experiences behind it
  • Build trusting relationships while maintaining appropriate structure and boundaries
  • Work closely with case managers, therapists, and other professionals
  • Adapt their routines and lifestyle to meet the individual needs of a foster youth
  • Remain patient and committed as a young person learns, grows, and develops new skills

You don't need to have all the answers. What matters most is your willingness to learn, provide a stable home, and be part of a team supporting a young person.

Bellefaire JCB provides the training you need to become a licensed treatment foster parent, including convenient virtual pre-service training. Once licensed, foster parents receive ongoing training designed to deepen their understanding of the needs and experiences of youth who have experienced severe abuse and neglect.

Pre-Placement Training Schedule-Fall 2026

You won't be doing this alone. Bellefaire JCB provides ongoing guidance, support, and technical assistance from licensed case managers, along with 24-hour on-call support for crisis intervention. Our team works alongside foster parents to help navigate challenges and provide the support needed for both the youth and the family.

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