Important Updates

Foster Parents provide love on a daily basis. The are a key part of our mission. May is National Foster Care Month.

Are you expecting a child, or are you a new parent? Cradle Cincinnati has resources to help your baby stay healthy and thrive.  Learn more about the group and some upcoming events here.  Or at www.cradlecincinnati.com .

Join us Friday, April 24 from 11 to 1 p.m. to learn how to deal with the barriers and issues associated with having a criminal record.      

Local residents interested in a firefighting career can prepare for entrance exams at the OhioMeansJobs Cincinnati/Hamilton County Center over the next several weekends. The center will host the Cincinnati Fire Fighters Union and the Cincinnati Black Fire Fighters Association over …

Hamilton County Job and Family Services now has a way to help foster children make college visits, provide toiletries or toys to abused children and aid low-income families with needs beyond job assistance, food and medical care.

Football players have the Super Bowl. Baseball players have the World Series. Lawyers have the United States Supreme Court.

HCJFS Child Support Legal Section Chief Patrick Southern reached the top of his game earlier this month when he was inducted into the United States Supreme Court Bar. He is now licensed to argue cases there.

The following opinion piece appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer on April 8.   I started my career in child welfare in 1993, at the tail end of a crack cocaine epidemic that ripped apart America’s families and filled the child …

Cincinnati (April 7, 2015) An unusual number of Hamilton County residents will wear blue suits, dresses, sweatshirts and other apparel tomorrow – not as a fashion statement, but as a social statement about the troubling problem of child abuse. Wednesday …

April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. On April 8, we encourage you to wear blue to call attention to child abuse and the ways to stop it. You can also join HCJFS on Fountain Square from 11 a.m. to 12:30 …

This column recently appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer.   The heartbreaking death of Jayniah Watkins should spur more open community discussion on the connection between untreated mental illness and child abuse. Untreated mental illness is one of the “big three” …