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Choose Your Partner Carefully.....your child's life depends on it.
When you choose a partner for you, you are choosing for your child too. Your baby is counting on you to make the right decision. Never leave your child with someone you don't trust with your child's life.
Does Your Partner:
- Show anger or impatience when your child cries or has a tantrum?
- Call your child BAD NAMES or put him down?
- Think it is funny to SCARE your child?
- Stop you from bringing your child to his family's events?
- Make ALL the decisions for you and your child?
- Tell you that you are a bad parent or that you should not have your kids?
- Pretend that WHEN HE HURTS YOUR CHILD that you are to BLAME or that it's NO BIG DEAL?
- Make your child SCARED by using guns or knives or other weapons?
- Tell you that your child is a nuisance?
If you answered yes to even one of these your child might be at risk!
Never leave your child with someone you don't trust with your child's life.
There are resources on the internet you can use to check out the background of an individual you may allow into your life. These include esorn, the Electronic Sex Offender Registration and Notification and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Links to these sites and others can be found on our home page.
Partnering Agencies
- Allen County Board of MR/DD
- Allen County Children Services
- Allen County Child Support Enforcement Agency
- Allen County Common Threads
- Allen County Department of Job & Family Services
- Allen County Educational Service Center
- Allen County Family & Children First Council
- Allen County Foster Parent Association
- Allen County Health Department
- Allen County Health Partners
- Allen County Juvenile Court
- Allen County Metropolitan Housing Authority
- Allen County Prosecutor's Office
- Allen County Sheriffs Office
- Allen Co. Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program
- Allen Lima Leadership
- Alvis House Community Corrections Center
- Apollo Career Center
- ARC of Allen County
- ASTOP, Inc.
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Allen, Hardin & Putnam Counties
- Board of Allen County Commissioners
- Bluffton University Social Work Department
- Bradfield Community Center
- CASA/GAL Programs of Allen & Putnam Counties
- Children's Development Center of Lima
- City of Lima
- City of Lima Prosecutor's Office
- Covenant Ministry Services
- Crime Victims Services of Allen & Putnam Counties
- Crossroads Crisis Center
- Family Promise
- Family Resource Centers
- Gastro Intestinal Associates
- Guiding Light
- Heartbeat of Lima
- Help Me Grow of Allen County
- Help Me Grow of Hardin County
- Hope Visitation & Exchange Center
- Husky, Lima Refinery
- Kid's Clinic at LMHS
- LACCA
- LACNIP
- Lima City Schools
- Lima Exchange Club
- Lima Memorial Health System
- Lima News
- Lima Noon Optimist Club
- Lima Pediatrics, Inc.
- Lima Police Department
- Lima Public Library
- Lima Rotary Club
- Lincoln Family Practice, Wapak
- Lutheran Social Services
- Maverick Media
- Mental Health & Recovery Services Board
- NAACP of Lima
- Partnership for Violence Free Families
- Proforma, Inc.
- Public Children Services Association of Ohio
- Rape Crisis Coalition at Crime Victim Services
- Safe Harbor
- SAFY Behavioral Health
- SAFY of Ohio, Inc.
- Second Baptist Church of Lima
- Shawnee Local Schools
- St. Rita's Medical Center
- Starr Commonwealth
- The Christopher Faulk Foundation
- The Future Church
- The Wow Experience
- Trinity United Methodist Day Care
- Upthegrove Family Enrichment Center
- Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
- YWCA of Lima