Important Updates

Watch our mass adoptions for National Adoption Day live here.

Cincinnati (Nov. 17, 2014) Hamilton County Job and Family Services will host its largest ever mass adoption ceremony Friday, with 17 children joining eight permanent, loving families. While adoption finalizations are normally confidential, the families have agreed to publicize the …

In the summer of 2012, Ben and Jessica Schumacher decided to become foster parents. Childless and facing fertility issues, they decided it made more sense to open their home to children who needed one than to pursue more medical options. Less than two years later, they had a family with six children.

November is national Adoption Month. As we do every year, we have a lot planned. Nov. 20 is our mass adoption ceremony, which always draws a lot of attention. But even before that, you will see our presence in the …

HCJFS Director Moira Weir was one of several foster care proponents who spoke at City Hall on Monday before the Cincinnati City Council Budget Committee. A coalition of groups including Beech Acres Parenting Center, Child Focus, Choices Inc., the City …

The two work hand in hand. About 70 percent of our adoptions are by foster families. These are people who have come to know and love the children in their care, and they want to make it a permanent arrangement once the court decides the child cannot be safely returned home. The best way to keep our adoption pipeline full is to have plenty of foster parents.

Thank you GETDOT for supporting the FAMILY Fund at the group’s Sept. 17 event in Sharonville. And thanks to the The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation for matching the donations.

And we thank The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation for agreeing to match any donations made.

After collecting more than $35,000 in delinquent child support, Hamilton County Job and Family Services will extend amnesty through the month of September to parents whose driver’s licenses have been suspended for not paying child support. The initial plan to …

What is the price of peace of mind? Some working parents, unfortunately, can’t afford it. We help. Nearly 25,000 Hamilton County children received child care assistance from our agency last year. These are children whose parents have annual incomes below …