UMCH Family Services

Post-adoption support is essential for both parent’s and children’s long-term stability and well-being as they navigate the ups and downs of family life. Find out how we can help strengthen your forever family.

Nearly 4,000 foster children in Ohio are available and waiting to find their forever families. Adoption provides children with a lifetime of emotional and legal connections to a family. Do you have room in your heart for a child?

UMCH Family Services works to put families together and keep families together, strengthening both parents and children.

A century ago, UMCH was established with the mission to help those most vulnerable in our community, our children. Over the years, how we serve families and children has changed, but our dedication and passion toward helping them achieve brighter futures has remained the same.

For families whose children are faced with emotional or behavioral issues, life’s challenges can sometimes seem overwhelming, let us help.

Treatment Foster Families offer safe, nurturing home environments for children to practice new or rediscovered skills when they are not ready or able to live with their family of origin. Become a Treatment Foster Parent today.

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UMCH Family Services provides help to families in need, whether it's putting families together through our Adoption and Treatment Foster Care Services or keeping families together through our Family Mental Health and Post Adoption Services. You'll find a team of highly qualified and caring professionals dedicated to providing every child we serve with the best possible opportunity to reach his or her full potential.

We are a ministry of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, committed to providing faith-based children's and family mental health treatment through a multidisciplinary approach that begins with a safe place, leading to a child's emotional safe space. Since we began as an orphanage a century ago, we have been dedicated to caring for Ohio's children and their families.

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Announcement

UMCH Family Services Featured in The Columbus Dispatch

Children's Home sale won’t end crucial help for young

It’s for sale, several buildings stand empty, and it no longer houses children.

But the United Methodist Children’s Home is most definitely not closed.

“We’re working with hundreds — well over 700 — kids, and it’s unfortunate that the world didn’t know a lot about that,” said Sean Reilly, executive director.

Yes, it is unfortunate because Columbus has many children in need of mental-health treatment, foster care and adoptive homes. The need isn’t going away, no matter what happens to the 38 acres where the home is situated. To read the full article, check it out: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2012/11/08/home-sale-wont-end-crucial-help-for-young.html

UMCH Worthington Campus Property Development

We are UMCH Family Services, a ministry of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. Formerly United Methodist Children’s Home, we were initially an orphanage. The campus we occupy today is a small part of our original parcel of land which included several hundred acres extending to the river and purchased in 1911. To develop a small portion of the land, money was raised to build a facility which began accepting children in 1914. The “Children’s Home” long has been a fixture inside Worthington.

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Announcements

November is National Adoption Awareness Month

November is National Adoption Awareness Month. To celebrate adoptive families, UMCH Family Services is hosting an event Saturday, November 3 from 10 a.m. – noon at the UMCH Family Services Worthington Campus at 1033 High Street in Worthington. If you have questions about adoption – pre-adoption, the adoption process or post adoption services -- or you and your extended family wish to celebrate with other adoptive families, please join us. To RSVP, please contact Sandi Andrist at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 614-559-2800. For more information, click here.

UMCH Family Services Adoption Program is Proud to Sponsor: Filling Family Portraits: 4th Annual Adoption Advocacy Day

Join us for this event Wednesday, November 14 from 10:30am - 11:30am at the Ohio Statehouse Atrium. You’ll hear from youth, families and advocates as they highlight the need for adoption resources; have the opportunity to advocate for continued investment in adoption; and be able to view our photo collection of waiting children, adopted children and adoptive families. Click here for more details.

News

March 14, 2012
Beth Gerber Named Director of Wesley Family Services
UMCH Family Services, formerly United Methodist Children’s Home, named Beth Gerber director of Wesley Family Services, outpatient mental health care. Gerber will be responsible for the daily operation and management of the agency’s outpatient family mental health program offering those in need help through community, school and aftercare programs.

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October 10, 2011
United Methodist Children’s Home Hires New Executive Director and Announces Future Plans and Name Change to UMCH Family Services
Sean Reilly takes the helm of the child caring organization that plans to sell land and focus on Adoption, Treatment Foster Care and Family Mental Health
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November 5, 2010
Columbus Dispatch Editorial - Wilkins Endorsement
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UMCH Family Services is a ministry of The West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church.

Certified by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and the Ohio Department of Mental Health
National Accreditation: Council on Accreditation.