Children’s Services

Thirteen children will be adopted into nine families Friday, Nov. 2, as part of Hamilton County Job and Family Services’ 12th annual mass adoption ceremony to celebrate National Adoption Month. The ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. in Judge …

“Keeping children safe – that is the end goal of everything we do here,” said Margie Weaver, assistant director – Children’s Services. “Every tool we use, every program we implement, every new effort we engage in, these are all puzzle pieces that ultimately connect together to support safety decision making.”

 One of the key components of our child welfare system are kinship providers who are willing to take in abused and neglected children so they can keep a bond with someone familiar with them. Just as I recently praised the …

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a new $1 million fund for recruitment of foster families, calling the lack of enough safe homes a tragedy and a “crisis of immense proportions.” More than 15,000 kids were in foster care …

HCJFS serves more than a third of Hamilton County Residents.

The theme for this year’s Celebration of Dreams event – movie stars — is fitting for 43 Hamilton County foster teens who have had to overcome challenging situations to graduate high school. They’ve just completed a starring role in one movie and they’re moving on to another.

Carmen and Michael Goede talked about how many kids they might like. Two, they thought, maybe three. They got five. And officially adopted them all on Tuesday. “They’re already our kids,” Mr. Geode said before the adoption hearing. “So this …

This is Jason. He’s 13, a really nice kid. Great smile. He’s good at art and a bit of a comic book nerd. He used his own money to buy a book to read to the baby in his foster …

If you have an approved home study and have ever requested information about one of our kids who’s available for adoption, you know that the child’s profile we send back can contain some potentially intimidating stuff. One of our boys’ …

She couldn’t get the pictures and stories she saw on the news out of her mind. A 3-year-old killed by his mother’s boyfriend. Marcus Fiesel locked in a closet and left for dead. Karen White kept asking herself, What can I …