From the Director

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 …

Quick – what is the largest JFS program? Child welfare? No, that is the program that gets the most attention. Food assistance? No, we feed more families than anyone in southwest Ohio on a regular basis, but that is not …

A summer job can be so much more than a paycheck for a teenager or young adult. Summer jobs are a chance to gain experience, learn solid work habits and make career connections. They are a chance to announce your …

We are two weeks away from our annual Celebration of Dreams event, an agency celebration for the foster children in our care who overcame great obstacles to graduate high school this year. We have more than 40 names on the …

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 …

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” …

I am very excited about a new development involving our agency: a separate fund has been created to help beyond the food, medical care, employment and other assistance one can obtain from JFS. At the request of several community members …

 While we get far more attention for our efforts in child welfare and public assistance, the largest program we administer is our Child Support program. Recently, we have had a few interesting developments when it comes to collections. The state …

What a wonderful holiday season we had here at JFS! It seems every year we see growth in the number of people who take a special interest in our children this time of year and do all they can to …

2014 was a good year for JFS, filled with highlights around Medicaid expansion and our OhioMeansJobs center’s outstanding work. But something that happened late in the year has me really excited about 2015. We have a new partnership with Radio …