House of New Hope provides treatment foster care and mental health services to children and their families throughout Ohio. Become a Foster Parent today. Look inside for details. Foster parents come in all ages and from many ethnic backgrounds. Just over half of all foster parents work outside of the home and only a third of the foster mothers are full-time homemakers.
Some foster parents are married couples, while some are single parents.
Some of the reasons cited by people who choose to become foster parents include a desire to help children, giving back to the community, possibility of adoption, and love of children. Prospective applicants go through a formal home study process and must meet he minimum legal requirements established by the Ohio Department of Human Services.