food stamps

In case you missed it yesterday, we now have a website and online application for low-income residents who need help with food, medical needs or daily expenses. This is an excellent example of becoming more accessible to the citizens of …

Hamilton County JFS serves 150,000 residents with Medicaid assistance and 133,000 residents receive food assistance. Many of those are people who were employed but lost their jobs. Hamilton County JFS is the largest provider of food assistance in Southwest Ohio. …

I just finished writing my final column of the year for our agency newsletter. I summed up some of the challenges and highlights from 2009. I know it is long, but I thought you might be interested. Here it is: …

This story on today’s food assistance recipients echoes what we are seeing at our agency. They are increasingly someone you know. http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=cincinnati&sParam=31959665.story About a third of the food stamp recipients we see now have not been to our office before …

We are slowly consolidating our two main offices, moving our operations from 237 William Howard Taft Road to our downtown office at 222 E. Central Parkway. We expect the consolidation to be complete by the end of the year. Traffic …

We have never been busier in our public assistance programs. Even when I talk to some of those who have been here much longer than my 17 years, they do not remember being this busy. We do not have records …

Lately, it seems that all we hear is bad news concerning the economy, unemployment, the increase in need for assistance, etc. But I do not want the positive news about our agency to get lost in the shuffle. That is …

I am not normally a talkative person, nor do I necessarily believe people care to know what I think. But this is a critical time at Job and Family Services and I feel very strongly that we should be as …