For Immediate Release

AGAPE FOR YOUTH NAMED A FINALIST IN OANO AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

August 13, 2013 – Agape for Youth, Inc. has been named a finalist in the 2013 Ohio Nonprofit Excellence Awards.  The finalists will be honored at the upcoming OANO conference on September 26, 2013.  During the conference, OANO will hold an awards luncheon where award finalists will be recognized. Award winners will be announced at the luncheon. “What a great honor to have Agape’s Reunification Services program recognized for the success it has had” said Stephen Geib Agape’s Executive Director/Founder.   Randy Pavlak, Agape Board President also shared “Ann Morrissey, Reunification Services Coordinator and her staff have done an outstanding job of building this program and serving the families in our community.”

Agape for Youth, Inc., 2010 Better Business Bureau Eclipse Integrity Award winner, provides foster care, adoption and reunification services in southwest Ohio.  Agape was founded in 1989 in order to place children into foster homes which could guide and support youth in becoming successful members of society.  Over the years Agape expanded its services to include family foster care, adoption services and ongoing supportive services to adoptive families.  In 2008, Agape was awarded a grant, and began offering reunification services; working with families whose children are making the transition from out of home care back to their biological family. The Agape offices are located at 2621 Dryden Road in Dayton, Ohio.