Important Updates

Our offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 24 and 25, for Thanksgiving. We will reopen for regular business hours on Monday, Nov. 28.

The Cincinnati/Hamilton County center of OhioMeansJobs found jobs for 48 military veterans during the month of October. That’s a quarter of all the veterans placed in jobs statewide.

Hamilton County Job & Family Services was well represented at Thursdays Blacksmith Awards Dinner presented by the Cincinnati Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Thanks to the following coffee shops for distributing our Adoption Month coffee sleeves.

Our offices will be closed on Friday, Nov. 11, for Veterans Day. We will reopen at our regular time on Monday, Nov. 14.

The 2016 SW Ohio Thanksgiving will take place in Cincinnati on Saturday, Nov. 12, from noon to 2:30 p.m. at People’s Church, 220 William Howard Taft Road. For the past nine years, Thanksgiving has been a time for Ohio foster …

Seven families will grow Friday when 14 children are adopted as part of Hamilton County Job and Family Services’ celebration of National Adoption Month.

A mass adoption ceremony will be held in Judge Ralph Winkler’s Hamilton County Probate Court. While adoption finalizations are normally confidential, the families have agreed to publicize the Nov. 4 ceremony to help promote adoption. The ceremony, which starts at 9 a.m., will be open to the media and will be live-streamed here.

HCJFS Director Moira Weir attended the Hamilton County Commissioners meeting on Wednesday as the commissioners proclaimed November as National Adoption Month. Weir said many of the kids in foster care are older and looking for a home. “You never outgrow …

 We are a week away from a county-wide vote on the Children’s Services Levy (Issue 53). I am asked nearly every day what the levy is and how the money is used. The levy raises funding for services to abused …

Every year, HCJFS seeks donations to provide Christmas gifts to all the foster children in our care.

You can help. Your donation to the FAMILY Fund can be used to make a merry Christmas for a boy or girl waiting for a forever home.