Important Updates

If you need to apply or manage benefits, or check eligibility, you can do it all in one place on the web.  The Ohio Benefits Portal is the home for doing all these things. 

Hamilton County’s Job and Family Services Planning Committee will hold its next scheduled meeting at 10 a.m. on September 28, at 222 E. Central Parkway, Room 6SE701. The meeting of community stakeholders is open to the public.

Christmas will be here before we know it and we all tend to get so busy in December. So we’re starting now to gather donated gifts and gift cards, with some special attention this year to kinship families and our kids in Independent Living. With our numbers growing, we will be trying to provide some holiday cheer to more kids than we ever have before.

We were thrilled when CitiCable, the city of Cincinnati’s government access channel, agreed to do a show about adoption and our kids.

Our monthly newsletter, HCJFS Update, is out for September. Read the update to find out what’s new at HCJFS. 

Our Contact page has information you need to get in touch with the right people at HCJFS.

One of our employees, Tariq Holimon, a child support technician, put his feelings about last week’s Fifth Third Bank shooting on Fountain Square into this powerful spoken-word piece. He titled it Pain: “Something we as a people experience, one thing that can’t …

A production team was in our building this week to prepare a video about Ohio Benefits’ efforts to improve the delivery of human services in Ohio.

Through our Community Outreach Volunteer Effort, COVE, donated school supplies to Rothenberg school. Several boxes full of things kids need to be successful in school were collected and donated. .

It isn’t the kind of news that grabs big headlines. Still, it is meaningful to the Hamilton County families we serve. Our agency, at the U.S. Food and Nutrition Service’s Midwest Partners for Program Improvement Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, …