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Please join us in congratulating Dustin Kendall, who was chosen Rookie of the Year in this year’s countywide awards. Kendall is a senior network administrator in Information Systems who joined HCJFS in June 2015. He definitely has made his mark …

When the Alms & Doepke Building was constructed in the 1870s, it was considered “cutting edge.” A recent look at our building’s history by History in Your Own Backyard provides a view of the building, its founders and its uses.

Employers who send child support payments to their county child support enforcement agency will soon be contacted by the Ohio Child Support Processing Center with information about how to correctly submit those funds.

Hamilton County’s Board of County Commissioners issued a proclamation Wednesday naming April Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month in Hamilton County and April 12 as Wear Blue to Work Day.

The proclamation was issued after commissioners heard from Director Moira Weir on the large increases in Children’s Services caseloads and the many abused and neglected children being served by the agency.

Every 30 minutes, a child is abused or neglected in Ohio.  This April, the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund is encouraging all of us to take steps to prevent abuse in neglect with the hashtag #inTheNext30Minutes.    What can you do? …

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This year, it comes with an extra sense of urgency in Hamilton County.
Our numbers are skyrocketing. We screened in 732 allegations of child abuse in the month of January, the largest monthly total in at least a decade. We screened in 699 reports during February. This followed a very busy last half of 2016, when we screened in 3,794 reports, 1,101 more than during the first half of the year.

Tanya Hampton had just left her second home visit of the night Saturday and stopped in at the McDonald’s in Bond Hill. When she came out of the restroom, she saw a man lying on the floor.

Tanya Hampton
She went over to check on him, noticed his fingertips were purple and yelled to the manager: “Call 911!

A Hamilton County woman who tried to get some Christmas cash by selling her food benefits ended up losing those benefits for a year.

The Hamilton County Job and Family Services Planning Committee will discuss the agency’s Title XX plan at its quarterly meeting on April 21. This hearing is open to the public and provides the opportunity for residents to discuss the county’s …

Michael Patton, HCJFS’s chief child support officer, is being praised by the Ohio Child Support Director’s Association Board for his work on software that helped automate processes and save employees time.