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In the summer of 2012, Ben and Jessica Schumacher decided to become foster parents. Childless and facing fertility issues, they decided it made more sense to open their home to children who needed one than to pursue more medical options. Less than two years later, they had a family with six children.

HCJFS Director Moira Weir was one of several foster care proponents who spoke at City Hall on Monday before the Cincinnati City Council Budget Committee. A coalition of groups including Beech Acres Parenting Center, Child Focus, Choices Inc., the City …

Thank you GETDOT for supporting the FAMILY Fund at the group’s Sept. 17 event in Sharonville. And thanks to the The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation for matching the donations.

And we thank The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation for agreeing to match any donations made.

After collecting more than $35,000 in delinquent child support, Hamilton County Job and Family Services will extend amnesty through the month of September to parents whose driver’s licenses have been suspended for not paying child support. The initial plan to …

If you are behind on child support, you have more time to take advantage of the amnesty program that began in August. You can get your license back. Delinquent parents can reinstate driving privileges with child support amnesty    

HCJFS serves more than a third of Hamilton County Residents.

Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas, who was adopted, started the Dave Thomas Foundation to support adoption efforts. The foundation recently shared these videos of adopted children sharing their first “family memories.”

HCJFS 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

One. It just takes one person to adopt a child and change that child’s life forever. One. During our summer #theone campaign. We’re emphasizing that it just takes you, one you, to make this incredible difference. Could you be #theone to teach a …