adoption

If you know a teen in foster care who is graduating from high school this year or getting their GED, please let us know. As you might know, HCJFS puts on a big event for these kids called Celebration of …

Hamilton County caseworkers helped 141 children find forever families in 2017, celebrating the most adoptions in agency history.

The previous high was 135 in 2007.

Graduating high school is not a given. In fact, foster children are much more likely to drop out of school and not graduate than their peers. The young people we celebrate every June worked hard to avoid that fate.

Hamilton County foster children will receive a wonderful Christmas present this year when 205 donated bikes arrive Tuesday from a Franklin County woman known widely as the “Bike Lady.” An additional 65 bikes will be distributed to Clermont and Butler Coun

This will be the agency’s 11th annual mass adoption ceremony, always timed to occur in November during in National Adoption Awareness Month. This year’s ceremony includes children ranging in age from 1 to 16. The children, all victims of abuse and neglect, will join new families in an emotional ceremony and celebrate afterwards with their caseworkers, court-appointed advocates, extended families and other people special to their lives.

 One of the key components of our child welfare system are kinship providers who are willing to take in abused and neglected children so they can keep a bond with someone familiar with them. Just as I recently praised the …

The Sanders family adopted six of our children so the biological siblings could stay together. There was some local media attention to this and the Ellen Show picked up on it and arranged for them to go to California and …

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a new $1 million fund for recruitment of foster families, calling the lack of enough safe homes a tragedy and a “crisis of immense proportions.” More than 15,000 kids were in foster care …

We spend a lot of time and effort looking for families for our kids in care. But it’s also important to get them, while they wait for that forever match, ready for adoption. So we hold Adoption Readiness events for …

Foster children aging out of Hamilton County’s child welfare system cost local residents $17.7 million in social expenses and lost productivity each year, according to a local financial impact study released today by the University of Cincinnati’s Economic Center and Hamilton County Job and Family Services. One program is helping reduce that cost.