Mar
22
Emphasizing the importance of dads

Calvin Williams has worked on fatherhood projects for years. He has counseled hundreds, if not thousands, of men on how to have better relationships with their children, their children’s mothers and how to find a job in order to pay …

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Mar
21
New tool to provide key information on abused and neglected children

“Keeping children safe – that is the end goal of everything we do here,” said Margie Weaver, assistant director – Children’s Services. “Every tool we use, every program we implement, every new effort we engage in, these are all puzzle pieces that ultimately connect together to support safety decision making.”

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Mar
19
Update: Ohio Worker Benefits Portal (Medicaid system) will be unavailable March 21-26; CRIS-E down for short time, too

The Ohio Worker Benefits Portal will be down for maintenance from 6 p.m. March 21 until 6 a.m. March 26 for maintenance. Hamilton County Job and Family Services will be unable to access cases during business hours on March 22 and March 23. Consumers will be unable to access Medicaid information or cases throughout the entire shutdown.

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Mar
15
Need to tell us something?

Our Contact Us page has links to send messages directly to the department or service you need to reach.

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Mar
12
Our neighborhood is booming

Main Street near our offices is booming. One perk to working at HCJFS is the selection of restaurants and shops close to work. Here’s another story about the growth nearby. This one is from WCPO.

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Mar
09
HCJFS Responds to Community’s Behavioral Health Challenges 

HCJFS has hired a senior-level specialist to coordinate and manage the agency’s behavioral health work as the agency attempts to serve more families and children with greater emotional and mental health needs.

Nina Lewis joins the agency after many years of work in the public health field. She will lead the agency’s behavioral health transition to Medicaid managed care for foster children, with a focus on multi-system partnerships, community-based programs and in-home services that strengthen the agency’s behavioral health offering.

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Mar
06
March is Social Worker Month

In March we take time to honor the social workers at HCJFS who work on the front lines to keep kids safe and families safe and thriving.

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Mar
05
Help us honor graduating foster children

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 …

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Mar
02
New Summer Youth Employment Program

Interested in summer employment? Hamilton County Job and Family Services’ previous Summer Youth Employment Program is now part of the Comprehensive Case Management Employment Program, a dynamic year-round program for county youth ages 14 to 24.

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Feb
16
Adoptions team celebrates record number of finalizations

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.

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