Fox19 shares a great story of adoption that highlights the increased need for foster care in Hamilton County.
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Breauna was adopted as an infant, but returned to county custody when she was 12. She’s been in foster care ever since with Mary and Roger Dennis and their five other children. When she turned 18 last year, She began …
Read MoreFoster parents and kinship parents: JFS has a new tool to collect pictures of children so we can document their life in life books. The tool provides a safe and secure way for you to upload photos that will attach …
Read MoreToday is Wear Blue Day to promote awareness of child abuse. Our staff got in the spirit.
Read MoreA recent story on WCPO.com tells how HCJFS, and caseworker Natrasha Christian-Beasley played a part in one man’s success.
Robert Johnson went from foster care to family man. We’re proud of our role in his success.
Read MoreI hope you will join us in our Child Abuse Prevention Month efforts this year. Child abuse prevention is a year-round focus for our agency, but April is the month set aside to really draw awareness to the problem. Sadly, …
Read MoreIf 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 …
Read MoreGraduating 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreSince 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.
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