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Permanency is crucial for the success of children. Children grow best in nurturing, stable environments. They want a sense of permanent “family.” For this reason, we are instituting Permanency Roundtables into our child welfare practice next month. Permanent situations offer: …

Hamilton County has been chosen as a pilot county to implement Ohio’s new Electronic Child Care system, which will result in better tracking and spending of tax dollars in the publicly-funded Child Care program. On Oct. 30, we are scheduled …

Did you know we do weekly podcasts with news about what is going on at Hamilton County’s Job and Family Services Department? You can listen to them here: https://www.hcjfs.org/Video/podcastplayer.htm You can access them each week at the top right corner …

We are launching a new awareness campaign today about reporting child abuse. The campaigned is aimed at mandated reporters — police officers, teachers, child care workers, etc. — and encourages them to look for the more subtle signs of child …

If you are a public assistance recipient, you have surely noticed our processing times increase. I want to stress again we are doing our best to help everyone as quickly as possible. To help the process go smoothly, here are …

Our Most Wanted Child Support poster had only been out in the community for a few days when one of the parents depicted on it turned himself in! Now that is success! You can read more about the poster here. …

We see first hand every day the results of unemployment. One in six people in this county now turns to us for help meeting their daily needs. While providing a helping hand, we also help people find their way back …

Our agency is doing its best to keep up with record demand in our public assistance programs. One in six in this county is now on food assistance or Medicaid and that means 60,000 people a month visit our lobby …

We have many videos of our foster children who are available for adoption on both www.hckids.org and on our agency’s YouTube page, http://www.youtube.com/hcjfs. These videos really give you a picture into the soul of these children. If you are interested …

Very important changes are coming to the publicly-funded child care program. The state of Ohio has instituted new income eligibility guidelines. Essentially, new applicants must be at 125 percent of the federal poverty level for a family of their size …