Now Licensed in KENtUCKY AND West Virginia!
Fostering. Healthier. Community.
More than 30,000 children in out-of-home care across West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio are waiting for a dependable, loving family to provide the care, safety and stability they need.
Could your family be the one they’re waiting for?
OVP FAMILY, a division of OVP HEALTH, was created in late 2024 to address this need by providing children and families with quality foster care and independent living services, as well as an unprecedented level of “wraparound” care.
OVP FAMILY recently received licensure from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide foster care, adoption, and independent living services for children and youth in the Bluegrass State. So, similar to West Virginia, we’re now recruiting, training, and certifying foster parents in Kentucky, and we’re making progress on securing licensure from the state of Ohio.
If you’re interested in learning more about becoming a foster parent, we invite you to explore these web pages, and to contact us, so we can reach out to you.
Thinking About
Becoming a Foster Parent?
If you’re thinking about becoming a foster parent, you’ll want to visit this section regularly to view our monthly OVP FAMILY UPDATE videos. In this month’s video, OVP FAMILY President Greg Thompson, JD, MA, talks about our recent licensure to provide foster care, adoption, and independent living services in Kentucky, and updates us on OVP FAMILY’s progress in West Virginia and Ohio.
About OVP Family
OVP Family was established in 2024 by Huntington, WV-based OVP HEALTH. With core service lines spanning primary care, behavioral health, addiction medicine, emergency medicine, and hospital medicine, OVP HEALTH brings a unique and comprehensive perspective to child health and welfare across West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio.
You can find updated information about OVP FAMILY on Social Media
Click on the links (on the right) to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and to watch our informational videos onYouTube
This National Foster Care Awareness Month, we’re proud to spotlight the incredible individuals who make up our OVP Family team.
Follow along as we share their stories, passions, and the impact they’re making in our communities.
Autumn Culvyhouse, MA
Licensing Specialist
Autumn has spent the past 10 years working with families to prepare them for their experience hosting foster children. During this process she works with each family to customize their plan to set them on course for the best opportunity for success when they welcome a foster child into their home.
Autumn’s inspiration: "I am inspired to work with children and families in our region because I want to be part of the solution to child suffering. Too many children simply need a stable, loving, and everyday family environment—something many of us take for granted. Instead, many spend their nights in group homes, hotel rooms, or facilities while they wait for a safe place to land. Our region urgently needs individuals and families who are willing and able to give children a secure space to heal from the challenges they’ve faced. Every child deserves at least one dependable person, a place to sit around a table for Thanksgiving, and somewhere they can truly call “home.” That belief is what motivates me to serve and advocate for them.”
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Supporting children and families with compassionate foster care and wraparound services. Discover how OVP FAMILY makes a difference: www.ovpfamily.com ... See MoreSee Less
This National Foster Care Awareness Month, we’re proud to spotlight the incredible individuals who make up our OVP Family team.
Follow along as we share their stories, passions, and the impact they’re making in our communities.
Jill Taylor, BA
Case Manager/Adoption Specialist
Jill has more than 13 years of experience in the world of foster care and family support. She focuses her efforts on piecing together the needs of families and connecting them with the support they need to be most helpful to children being placed in homes.
Jill's inspiration: "I enjoy making connections with the kids and being a safe individual they can trust. I want to make a positive difference in a child’s life during a difficult time."
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This National Foster Care Awareness Month, we’re proud to spotlight the incredible individuals who make up our OVP Family team.
Follow along as we share their stories, passions, and the impact they’re making in our communities.
Kim Pulley
Administrative Specialist
Kim has more than 15 years of experience working with children and families to put together the behind-the-scenes pieces of becoming and succeeding as a foster family. She works closely with foster parents and the foster children seeking homes to make sure that the sometimes complicated and detailed processes are the least burdensome part of the fostering process. She has a special place in her heart, and through her professional work, for teens and young adults involved in the fostering process.
Kim’s inspiration: "My inspiration for working with children and families in our area is simple. I see kids in need, I see kids all over our region who are struggling just to survive. Some of these kiddos should be in foster care and they fall through the cracks. If I can help just one child have a safe place to lay their head at night, I consider that a success story. A previous foster care child told me once that he didn’t understand why more people don’t foster older kids and help them become successful adults, “because it’s hard out here.”
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This National Foster Care Awareness Month, we’re proud to spotlight the incredible individuals who make up our OVP Family team.
Follow along as we share their stories, passions, and the impact they’re making in our communities.
Amy Thompson
Socially Necessary Services Case Manager
Amy has worked with children and families in the foster care industry for more than 11 years and has a passion for assisting them to find the critical services and connections they need to build the foundation for a thriving family.
Amy's inspiration: "The families and children I work with are not just my clients; they are my greatest inspiration. Watching a child find his or her voice or helping a family navigate a complex challenge to emerge stronger is the highest form of professional achievement. To me, success is defined by those moments of breakthrough where "impossible" becomes "possible.”
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OVP Family is proudly supporting Mission WV’s Walk With Me event today in Charleston (WV) at GoMart Ballpark to create awareness about foster care in West Virginia. We’ll be here until noon so stop by and say hi to us!
We’re collaborating to celebrate foster families and the children they care for throughout May, which is National Foster Care Month.
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Nearly one year ago, OVP FAMILY received its licensure to provide foster care and adoption services in West Virginia. A few months later, OVP was licensed in Kentucky. And work is firmly underway to attain that licensure in the state of Ohio.
From the beginning, OVP FAMILY has been committed to a revolutionary approach to providing care and service to children and families in need -- an approach focused on the delivery of a wide array of "wrap-around services," including medical and dental care, behavioral health services, counseling, adoption, and independent living services.
Those "wrap-around" services were just one reason Jaycie Bias and her husband, Rodney, decided to switch agencies to OVP FAMILY earlier this year. They say OVP FAMILY has a very bright future ahead of it.
May is National Foster Care Month, and as we highlight the families and individuals serving children in need, we invite you to take the next step. Visit www.ovpfamily.com to learn how you can help support children and families in our communities. ... See MoreSee Less
When foster parents Jaycie and Rodney Bias, of Huntington, switched foster care agencies to OVP FAMILY, they were concerned that the transition might be somewhat complex, time consuming, and painful…but as they’re happy to tell everyone, the actual experience was exactly the opposite.
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We have to share this story from last week again!
A heartwarming milestone for OVP FAMILY! Two sisters found their forever home through our first adoption, bringing joy and new beginnings to a wonderful family in Jackson County, West Virginia. ... See MoreSee Less