Communication

My most recent post mentioned the need for volunteers in our Higher Education Mentoring Program (HEMI). Well, I have more news on that front: the program was chosen as a 2012 Achievement Award winner by the National Association of Counties! …

It has been awhile since I have posted about our Higher Education Mentoring Initiative.  We are holding several information sessions in July to recruit new mentors. if you are interested, please put these dates and times on your calendar now: …

Below is my recent Update newsletter column on changes coming to Children’s Services. You can read more news at JFS by subscribing to Update here.   Some of you may have read that the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners …

I am happy to announce two JFS employees have been named Hamilton County Employees of the Year! They are perfect representatives of all the great workers we have here at JFS. One is extremely close to me in that she …

Weare Blue to Work Day was a smashing success! We had people from all walks of life participate, with many sharing their photos. The real key to the day was that child abuse was top of mind and top of …

I hope everyone in our community will join me tomorrow in wearing blue to work to help spread awareness about child abuse in our community. So far, we have thousands of county residents who have signed on to the campaign. …

I am extremely excited and grateful The Greater Cincinnati Foundation has chosen to help our organization improve service to Hamilton County residents. The Foundation has issued a $27,000 grant to pay for a self-serve kiosk in our front lobby. Those seeking food …

The most recent round of state statistics on county processing times show Hamilton County led all metropolitan counties in processing February food stamp applications, with an 86% timeliness rate. As you will recall, we had trouble processing new applications and re-applications this …

Here’s a link to a nice television news story about our adoption recruitment efforts. We have stepped up the use of video over the past year. It really allows the children to shine and gives potential parents a glimpse of …

The latest version of our Update newsletter contains stories on our improvements in processing public assistance applications, the state’s new child support portal, the need for mentors in our Higher Education Mentoring Initiative and our new document imaging service that …