Certified: Best Christian Workplace for 2020
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio
Encompass Christian Counseling
Encourage Foster Care
Working at our Family of Ministries – Christian Children’s Home of Ohio, Encompass Christian Counseling and Encourage Foster Care – is exciting, challenging and rewarding. Every day, our employees put their faith in action through our core values of Relentless Commitment, Selflessness and Kindness, fulfilling our mission of “helping people to experience their worth in Christ.”

What can candidates expect of the hiring process?
Candidate information is reviewed by Human Resources and hiring managers to ensure that the minimum qualifications of education and experience are met. Qualifying candidates will be contacted to schedule telephone interviews with a member of the HR team, and those who successfully navigate the HR interview will be forwarded to the hiring manager for additional interviews/conversation, likely with several staff members.
To ensure the safety of all clients in our care, references checks, fingerprinting/criminal record checks and drug screenings will be completed on all successful candidates. In addition, select positions require a pre-employment physical to ensure that the candidate is able to successfully perform the physical aspects of the job.
What positions are open?
To see a list of all available positions and to formally apply, click here to be directed to our career site. CCHO strives to make our candidate experience accessible to all! To request assistance to complete the application process, please contact Human Resources at 330.345.7949 or at employment@ccho.org.
Christian Children’s Home of Ohio, and each of its Family of Ministries, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Working for our Family of Ministries
Read through some of our latest blog posts and visit our LinkedIn profile to learn more about what it’s like working here!
30-Year Pleggacy
We certainly missed gathering in person for our Christmas all-staff meeting, but we didn’t miss out on the opportunity to recognize colleagues for their years of service and dedication including special honorees Carla and John Plegge.
Hope for the holidays
What are the holidays like for the kids in our residential program? Jessie Jackson, LPC, mental health therapist for the young girls cottage, shares how staff and volunteers bring hope to CCHO youth.
The importance of third shift
Third shift staff are integral to the cottage residents and routine. Learn more about this important role and how it benefits our kids.
Being the hands, feet and heart of Jesus
We have the best staff. Kind, selfless, encouraging, compassionate—all for the sake of life change for kids from hard places. Those qualities are making a difference on our Wooster campus. Here’s what one of our residential team members, Cindy Lechner, recently shared on her social media page.
Residential staff FAQ
It’s an exciting time to join our residential team. With the increase in applications and conversations around working at CCHO, here are some FAQs answered by our human resources team to help you get to know our program and organizational culture.
Dignity and respect
We love hearing from former residents. Sometimes we receive an email, other times a phone call. God has a special way of surprising us with their stories.
Summer joy!
Our residential program team loves investing in the lives of children all year round, but summer show off hours of planning and preparation in previous months.
Cottage reopens for tween girls
We are excited to share the news that our children’s residential center is expanding. Cottage two will be opening this fall as a place of safety, respite and treatment to tween girls who have experienced abuse and trauma. Learn more about the reopening of this space and join us in anticipation of hope and healing for hurting kids.
Child and family integration plan for long-term success
CCHO is filling the gap in services between a child’s stay on campus and their step-down placement to a foster, adopted or biological family. Preparing the resident for the family and the family for the resident is important for long-term success. Here’s our plan.
Experience your potential
Our children’s residential center is expanding, and we’d love for you to consider a career in youth ministry at CCHO. In today’s blog post, one of our executive team members shares his vocational journey.
Workplace culture and growth
Kevin Hewitt, CCHO President and CEO was recently asked to be a part of the Best Christian Workplace Institute’s (BCWI) podcast: The Flourishing Culture. If you would like to know more about our workplace culture at CCHO and how God is working through each employee and board member to fulfill our purpose, we invite you to listen in.
Music reaches youth in the midst of their hurt
We are pleased to share about our new music therapy program within our children’s residential center. Here’s insight into the nature of music therapy and its ability to reach kids in the midst of their pain and trauma.