About Us
Committed to Making a Difference
Kinship House provides children and their families a safe, child friendly, home-like environment for supervised visitation and exchanges. We serve as a neutral Supervised Parenting Center focused on the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Our professionals offer support, guidance and assistance to families facing crisis including divorce, abuse, domestic violence, neglect, and separation or child custody issues.
The Kinship House
Kinship House, Inc. is a non-profit agency established in 2000 to assist families in crisis. Started by Sandusky's Grace Church as their project to serve the area children affected by family conflict, it soon grew to involve other churches and then outside volunteers. Today Kinship House has provided programs serving Ohio and surrounding states. Kinship House is operated by an active volunteer Board of Directors, and employs an Executive Director, Assistant Director and trained monitors who work on a regular schedule. Most of the clients using this service are through court orders. There are some self-referrals and referrals from Children Services. Kinship House sees on average 200 families a month. The need is growing.
Directors
Kinship House employs two full time professional staff members that are responsible for the day to day operation of Kinship House. All activities involving Kinship House including client scheduling and follow-up, hiring and training client monitors, as well as working with volunteers for routine house care are coordinated by them.
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Executive Director
Tara Ohlemacher
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Assistant Director
Justin Zelm
