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Spaghetti Dinner 3/24/18 - Proceeds Benefit Royal Family Kids Camp

New online tool for runaway and homeless youth in Ohio - www.takingchargeohio.org

Healing Hearts teams up to provide bikes to RCCS Kinship.

Buckeye Health Plan distributed hams and turkeys to eight community-based agencies to help families in need.

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is urging Ohioans to consider becoming foster parents as the need for foster families has dramatically increased in the face of the opioid epidemic.

The Mansfield News Journal has published a guest column by Richland County Children Services Executive Director Patty Harrelson, explaining the critical local need for additional foster homes -- especially those willing to accept teens and sibling groups.

If you have ever considered becoming a foster parent, Richland County Children Services will help you become licensed with a "training marathon."

The Mansfield News Journal published over the weekend and op-ed piece by Richland County Children Services Executive Director Patty Harrelson.

The Richland Source recently published an opinion piece by RCCS Executive Director Patty Harrelson.

When a child comes into the care of Richland County Children Services, it's nice to have things that belong just to them.

Richland County Children Services will participate on Saturday (April 29) in the annual Healthy Kids Day event at the Mansfield YMCA.

With 110 participants, Richland County Children Services concluded another successful 24-hour Swim/Bike/Run last weekend at the Mansfield YMCA.

Mansfield Mayor Tim Theaker issued a proclamation Tuesday evening designating April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the city.

Two Richland County Children Services employees joined Doug Theaker this week on WMFD-TV's "Focus on North Central Ohio" during Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Richland County Children Services has posted a photo gallery of images from our 2017 Wear Blue Day Rally at the Graham Auto Mall.

Child abuse prevention month was the topic as two Richland County Children Services employees were interviewed Monday during a taping of WMFD-TV's "Focus on North Central Ohio" program.

Ontario Mayor Randy Hutchinson on Wednesday evening issued a proclamation designating April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the city.

Micah McPeek, a third-grade student at the Mansfield Spanish Immersion School, won this year's Richland County Children Services billboard contest.

The Richland County Board of Commissioners this morning issued a proclamation designating April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the county.

Richland County Children Services is in need of additional foster homes, especially for teens.

Ohio is set to become the second state in the U.S. to launch a universal program in which expecting and new parents can receive a free baby box by completing online parenting education.

A ribbon-cutting marked the opening Tuesday of new interview rooms at Ohio Health/Mansfield, a collaboration among Richland County Children Services, Ohio Health, the Richland County Prosecutor's Office and local law enforcement agencies.

As part of an ongoing series into the frontlines of drug addition in Richland County, the Mansfield News Journal did an extensive interview with Children Services foster care specialist Jason Kline.

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services spokesperson Angela Terez misrepresented facts about the state’s child protection funding in the recent article “Impact of Marcus Fiesel’s death reverberates 10 years later,” published in the Dayton Daily News.

Interested in learning more on how to become a foster or adoptive parent in Richland County? The fact is that Richland County Children Services is in need of new foster parents, especially those willing to welcome teenagers and/or sibling groups.

A new website offers even more detail into the Richland County Children Services foster parenting program.

The Huffington Post recently published a column by a faily new foster parent. It offered three pieces of advice for those starting the process to become a foster parent.

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