Important Updates

Produce Perks provides a dollar-for-dollar match – up to $10 — to customers who use their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program food cards to buy healthy fruits and vegetables.

Clifton Market, located at 319 Ludlow Ave. is a community-owned grocery store that stocks regionally-grown fruits and vegetables.

It’s a little after sunrise on the first day of another week, and Cincinnati is waking up again with a heroin problem. So is Covington. And Middletown. And Norwood. And Hamilton. And West Chester Township. And countless other cities and towns across Ohio and Kentucky.

This particular week, July 10 through 16, will turn out to be unexceptional by the dreary standards of what has become the region’s greatest health crisis.

Don’t forget – we extended our child support amnesty through September. Parents who have had their driver’s license or professional license suspended for not paying child support still have more time to get those licenses reinstated. Delinquent parents can have …

 Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has added his voice to the many calling for additional foster parents as our state struggles with an opioid epidemic. We appreciate his interest in helping us continue to increase the network of foster homes …

Our offices will be closed Monday, September 4, and reopen on Tuesday, Sept. 5.

We are so thankful to AT&T for this money – $12,000 for scholarships for teens in foster care. The company has been an ongoing supporter of HEMI, a partnership between HCJFS, the University of Cincinnati and other entities that works …

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a new $1 million fund for recruitment of foster families, calling the lack of enough safe homes a tragedy and a “crisis of immense proportions.” More than 15,000 kids were in foster care …

We spend a lot of time and effort looking for families for our kids in care. But it’s also important to get them, while they wait for that forever match, ready for adoption. So we hold Adoption Readiness events for …

$12,000 for college scholarships for kids in foster care. Thank you, AT&T. HEMI is a partnership between the University of Cincinnati, Hamilton County Job and Family Services and other entities. Here is our director, Moira Weir, right, with Mark Romito …

Hamilton County had the highest SNAP timeliness rate in 2016 – better than all the other Metro counties in the state.   The timeliness rate is the percentage of SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cases authorized within 30 days for …