department of hamilton county job and family services

Our offices will be closed Monday, February 19, for Presidents’ Day.

Food and cash assistance recipients in Hamilton County will soon sign their recertification papers with an audio signature, a process that will reduce the number of cases where people lose benefits because of unreturned paperwork.

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 Job and Family Services is excited to be part of a four-year, national study designed to address challenges with child welfare worker recruitment, retention, satisfaction and intention to stay.

The Sweet Sweats for Love collection of sweatpants and hoodies for our kids in foster care continues through Valentine’s Day. You can drop your new items at any Sibcy Cline real estate office in the area.

Have you moved, or changed your phone number? Have you gotten a raise, or lost your job? Has someone moved in our out of your household?

Dohn Community High School is now partnering with Hamilton County OhioMeansJobs. Dohn’s “22 + Adult Diploma Program” is now operating out of the OhioMeansJobs center at 1916 Central Parkway. Nonni Wright, Dohn Site Director, expressed their excitement at the partnership and is very pleased with their new location. Teachers, Kenneth Anderson and Anthony Wyatt, are in residence full time Monday thru Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Our offices will be closed Monday, Jan. 15, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Since 2015, Phillippi-Whitney Communications and Sibcy Cline Realtors have teamed up to provide suitcases, gloves and shoes for area foster children.

“This year promises to be even bigger and better as we collect new hoodies and sweatpants for area foster children from ages 5 to 18 with our ‘Sweet Sweats For Love’ campaign,” organizer Julie Whitney said.

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