Aug
13
Annual Report Released

HCJFS serves more than a third of Hamilton County Residents.

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Feb
14
Adoption Recrutiment Event on Saturday

If you’re thinking about adopting, HCJFS is hosting an adoption recruitment event at the Colerain Bowling Alley this Saturday Feb. 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you have a completed home study on file or letter from your …

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Feb
13
Choose Your Partner Carefully

Choose Your Partner Carefully I was very happy to see this editorial in today’s Enquirer. We launched that campaign a few years ago, but it is an extremely important topic that we should come back to on a regular basis. …

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Feb
10
JFS has a Widespread Impact on the Local Economy

Below is my column from our recent Update newsletter. If you are not receiving our newsletter, please visit our website, hcjfs.org, and find the sign up form under the Public header. It is a good way to keep up on …

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Feb
03
Medicaid Expansion: More than 5,000 Applications so far

Our agency is processing about 200 more applications a day with the expansion of Medicaid. If you will recall, the state extended Medicaid to cover people with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level – $15,856 for a …

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Jan
23
SuperJobs Center Turning Out Super Numbers

This bell rings at the SuperJobs Center with each new job! I looked over some of our numbers from the SuperJobs Center today and I am very happy with the work being done there. Our employees are to be commended …

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Jan
14
Hamilton County Stands Out in Child Support Collection

I am very proud of the work we do with Child Support collection. We have approximately 84,000 active child support cases, and we know there is at least a mother, father and one child on each case, so it is …

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Jan
13
New Year’s Resolutions

In case you missed it, here is my latest column in Update, our community newsletter. It lays out some of our agency goals for 2014. If you are not an update Subscriber, here’s a link to the latest issue, where …

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Dec
31
Office Closing

Our office will be closed New Year’s Day and will reopen Thursday morning. Please have a safe and happy holiday. I am looking forward to 2014 and will detail some of our plans in a blog post later this week. …

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Dec
23
Happy Holidays

Our offices will close at noon tomorrow and reopen Thursday morning. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. We were very fortunate this year to have much support from the community. Toys for Tots once again donated hundreds of toys …

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