Important Updates

Professionals who work with youth and those they serve are invited to a workshop on March 27 to engage and hear the voices of youth.

Ohio Means Jobs, 1916 Central Parkway, will host United Way tax preparers again this year. They will be at OMJ every Saturday through April 15.

New statistics show that Hamilton County has more than 1,100 children in certified foster care – the most in at least 20 years. Moira Weir, director of Hamilton County Job and Family Services, is calling for help.

February’s HCJFS Update features information about our historic need for foster parents as well as free tax help and workshops for people with criminal records who are looking for work.  You can sign up for HCJFS Update emails and view …

Talbert House, OMJ Cincinnati-Hamilton County and Talbert House are offering workshops, starting Feb. 14 to help people with criminal records find work.

The workshops will be held at the North Central Library Branch from noon to 2 p.m. on Fridays and at the Mt. Healthy Library from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.

We currently have more than 1,100 children in certified foster care. This might be the highest number in JFS history, certainly within the past 20 years.

On any given day, we have more than 2,100 children in custody. In addition to the 1,100 children in certified foster homes, the remaining 1,000 are children living with relatives or family friends, teenagers living on their own and preparing for life after foster care, or children living in residential centers, group homes or medical facilities.

Thanks to Debbie Hader, Linda Klein and their fellow Beta Sigma Phi members for their kind donation of toys, clothes and household items for our foster children.

Ohio’s unemployment rate was 4.9 percent in December 2016, unchanged from November. Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 10,300 over the month, from a revised 5,506,900 in November to 5,517,200 in December 2016. The number of workers unemployed in …

Our offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 16 in honor of Martin Luther King Day.  We will reopen regular hours on Tuesday, Jan. 17. 

As authorized by Substitute Senate Bill 63, the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office now offers Ohioans the ability to register to vote online. The Secretary of State’s Online Voter Registration (OLVR) system allows an applicant to securely and efficiently submit a voter registration application online to the Secretary of State’s Office.