public assistance

Hamilton County’s Job and Family Services Planning Committee will hold its next scheduled meeting at 10 a.m. on December 1 at 222 E. Central Parkway, Room 6SE701. The meeting of community stakeholders is open to the public.

Hamilton County Job & Family Services’ communication team picked up an award last week during the Public Relations Society of America Cincinnati Chapter’s Blacksmith Awards.

Weir was named one of ten finalists for a 2017 Route Fifty Navigator Award in the category of Agency and Department Leadership. Weir was praised as someone who has built the foundation for success and created an environment for innovation.

Hamilton County Job and Family Services will be unable to process Medicaid cases at the end of this month due to a software update to the Ohio Benefits Work Portal. Consumers will also be unable to access information from the self portal.

Representatives of Fifth Third Bank and CareSource health care said their visit to HCJFS’ offices at 222 E. Central Parkway Friday were a success with more than 200 people stopping by for information about finances and health care.  The Fifth …

Intake interviews on public assistance cases will take place over the phone, rather than in person, starting July 17. This transition is happening for the convenience of the consumer, who will no longer have to travel downtown, pay for parking, …

Do you need help with understanding credit, saving or budgeting? Questions about home ownership or your credit report? All that and more will be available when the Fifth Third Financial Empowerment Mobile makes a stop at JFS on Friday, July …

For two days, 160 representatives of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance programs from 14 counties in six states are meeting in Cincinnati to discuss and learn ways to efficiently provide assistance to their clients.

The National Association of Counties has chosen a Hamilton County Job and Family Services’ program as one of its 100 Brilliant Ideas at Work, recognizing the program as one of the most innovative government programs in the country.

The Association recognized the county’s partnership to help food assistance recipients obtain long-term self-sufficiency through training and employment in the trucking industry. Hamilton County partnered with the state of Ohio and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service in a first-of-its-kind partnership that trained food assistance recipients to drive trucks, resulting in jobs paying more than $45,000 per year.

Hamilton County is one of the few counties in Ohio to combine assistance programs, child protection, child support and employment assistance under one agency. To make sure those seeking adoption and foster care information can find what they need, and to help our kids find homes, we have a dedicated web page for adoption and foster care at HCKids.org.