Welcome to Christian Children's Home of Ohio

Welcome to Christian Children's Home of Ohio--a place where Christ and children can meet. Christian Children’s Home of Ohio (CCHO) has been helping children and families in distress since 1969. Coming from humble beginnings, CCHO has grown from a single foster home to a Children’s Residential Center with five large cottages that house up to 48 children at a time, and a growing organization that provides a variety of programs and services aimed at fulfilling our mission, bringing healing to hurting children and families. . . . In His Name. These programs and services include:

Children’s Residential Center (CRC), which is a residential treatment center for abused, abandoned, and neglected children and included Intensive, Partial Hospitalization Program, and Family-Model residential care. Residential care is designed to meet the mental, emotional, physical, recreational, and spiritual needs of each child in care. Children in residential care are provided a variety of therapeutic approaches, such as equine-assisted therapy, art therapy, group therapy, partial hospitalization groups, individual therapy, play therapy, and Certified Trauma Therapy.

Foster Care and Adoption Services (FCAS), with offices in Wooster, and Cleveland, offers training, licensing, child/family matching, respite care, and support services for families. While most of our efforts are within the state of Ohio, we provide home studies for international adoptions, and facilitate interstate adoptions as well.

Home-Based Services (New Beginnings at CityHill), provides abuse and neglect prevention and family stabilization services to struggling families. Parenting Classes are offered, as well as case management, counseling, and wraparound supports. Specialized services, such as a Family Treatment Aid, may be available on a case-by-case basis.

New Beginnings Counseling Center (NBCC) is committed to offering professional, Christ-centered counseling services, has offices in 14 locations and works in several churches and schools, and provides marriage counseling, family and child counseling, and help for grief, depression, addictions, disorders, etc. Certified Trauma Therapists are available, as well as those who specialize in Play Therapy, Family Therapy and more.

Poplar Ridge Adventures (PRA), an experiential learning and training program, offering a high ropes course, climbing wall, and team building programs. PRA is used therapeutically with the children in the CRC to build confidence, trust, socialization skills, and much more. It is also made available to corporate, college, church, and other groups and organizations.

Poplar Ridge Stables offers two programs: Reins for Life and Ridge Riders. They are two horse riding programs with different goals. Reins for Life is an equestrian therapy program that works with the children in CRC and other handicapped kids (physically, emotionally, behaviorally, or socially). Ridge Riders is a horseback riding program open to the public. Ridge Riders holds day camps and gives riding lessons, and partners with many community organizations to offer programs to children in the community.

CCHO is licensed by the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, and is certified through the Ohio Department of Mental Health. We are nationally accredited through the Council on Accreditation. Additionally, CCHO is a charter member of the Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies, the North American Council of Adoptable Children, Adoptive Families of America, and the American Association for Counseling and Development.

Please take some time to view our website and learn more about our programs.