From the Director

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 …

I want to introduce you to Ashleigh. She’s a working single mom who stepped up to take in two nieces and a nephew. She’s what we call a kinship caregiver. Her journey to becoming the leader of a family of six …

As I’ve mentioned here before, we’re working very hard at all levels of JFS to bring more equity and inclusion to what we do, both internally and externally. We have a core group of employees working with local equity consulting …

We have some great news for all the grandparents, aunts, uncles, other relatives and friends who care for kids in our custody – they’ll soon receive even more financial support from us. We’re helping our kinship providers more in two …

As busy as we all are these days, it can be difficult to find time to sit back and take stock of our accomplishments. That’s why I like annual report time – looking back at the previous year, we are reminded just …