Author Archives: Jane Prendergast

Have you seen our You Drive, They Thrive campaign yet? Every August, we honor Child Support Awareness Month with an amnesty offer to parents who have had a license suspended because they failed to pay child support. We can suspend driver’s licenses …

We are again collecting back-to-school items for our kinship families who have stepped up to take care of kids. They often take in relatives’ children with little notice and little support. Visit our list today and see how you might be …

This young Latinx woman has quite the impressive resume. Dean’s List every semester at the University of Cincinnati. Bachelor’s degree in international affairs and environmental studies. Winner of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study abroad. I’m describing Isabel Slonneger, a first-generation college …

I have some great news for young people in Hamilton County – we’re taking our former summer youth jobs program and growing it into the year-round Hamilton County Youth Employment Program. We’ll still help people 14 to 21 find summer jobs, but …

I want to introduce you to Ashleigh. She’s a working single mom who stepped up to take in two nieces and a nephew. She’s what we call a kinship caregiver. Her journey to becoming the leader of a family of six …

I spent two days last week at a conference with leaders of children’s services agencies from across the country. As a new director with a background in the other services we provide, I wanted to immerse myself in conversations about …

As I’ve mentioned here before, we’re working very hard at all levels of JFS to bring more equity and inclusion to what we do, both internally and externally. We have a core group of employees working with local equity consulting …

We have some great news for all the grandparents, aunts, uncles, other relatives and friends who care for kids in our custody – they’ll soon receive even more financial support from us. We’re helping our kinship providers more in two …

As busy as we all are these days, it can be difficult to find time to sit back and take stock of our accomplishments. That’s why I like annual report time – looking back at the previous year, we are reminded just …

One of my priorities as the new leader of Hamilton County Job and Family Services is to give my work family opportunities to learn and engage, to broaden their knowledge about issues that might affect them and our clients.  Racial …