From the Director

We’re celebrating a milestone at JFS this year – our 75th anniversary.  On Jan. 1, 1948, JFS was born from a consolidation of several social-service offices run by the city and county. At that time it was called the Hamilton …

JFS has many job openings, but this one’s a little different. We’d love to hire someone who personally experienced the child welfare system. This is a project manager job for someone who has a deep understanding of the challenges faced by …

One of our favorite days of the year is coming up Friday – Adoption Day. It’s our celebration of National Adoption Month.  On this year’s Adoption Day, Nov. 4, we’ll celebrate seven children permanently united with their adoptive families. These …

It has been three years since we launched our focus on fatherhood with the revival of the Fatherhood Collaborative of Hamilton County. We continue the efforts to lift up dads and have grown to offer programs, meetups and many other …

I want to use this space this week to send a very important thank-you note. A public thank-you note to our child welfare workers. It’s national Child Welfare Worker Appreciation Week and this community needs to know what great people …

They say “don’t leave money on the table.” We definitely don’t want that to happen with federal relief dollars meant to help Hamilton County homeowners. The Hamilton County commissioners launched a $5 million effort last October to help homeowners pay their …

When your mission is one of community service, one of the most important things is partnerships. No one agency can do it alone. This is absolutely true at our OhioMeansJobs (OMJ) office. The partnerships we have helped build there over the years are …

Have you seen our You Drive, They Thrive campaign yet? Every August, we honor Child Support Awareness Month with an amnesty offer to parents who have had a license suspended because they failed to pay child support. We can suspend driver’s licenses …

This young Latinx woman has quite the impressive resume. Dean’s List every semester at the University of Cincinnati. Bachelor’s degree in international affairs and environmental studies. Winner of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study abroad. I’m describing Isabel Slonneger, a first-generation college …

I have some great news for young people in Hamilton County – we’re taking our former summer youth jobs program and growing it into the year-round Hamilton County Youth Employment Program. We’ll still help people 14 to 21 find summer jobs, but …