Mar
18
Youth Employment Program hiring lifeguards this year

We have been working diligently to boost our Hamilton County Youth Employment Program – finding more job opportunities in more businesses, adding more training and making sure young people and their families know we have year-round opportunities. Now we’re jumping …

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Mar
05
Honoring women for Women’s History Month

Since Friday started Women’s History Month, I want to mention all the women who help keep JFS and Hamilton County running smoothly every single day.  Five out of seven members of our JFS executive team are women. Almost 80 percent …

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Feb
23
New partnership for prevention

We’re participating in a new program that I’m really excited about, one that focuses on preventing kids from needing to enter foster care. We know that a predominant factor leading to the placement of children into foster care is neglect. …

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Nov
20
Protecting your food assistance cards

With the holidays nearing, it’s a good time to remind our consumers to be careful with their food assistance cards. We are still seeing quite a bit of benefits lost to sophisticated fraud schemes. You might have seen our Guard …

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Nov
12
Grateful for Hoxworth Blood Center’s partnership

Each week I try to share information you might not know about us. This time, I’m going to share things I never knew about a very important asset in our community – Hoxworth Blood Center. Hoxworth is helping us with …

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Oct
30
Sending students in foster care on a tour of historically black colleges

I write a lot here about things going on at our agency that I’m excited about. This is definitely one of those. It’s an extraordinary opportunity that can be truly transformational for some of our youth in foster care. We’re …

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Oct
29
With a little help, Daddies Do Hair Too!

For the second year, the Fatherhood Collaborative of Hamilton County hosted its Daddies Do Hair Too!  Ten professional hair stylists helped more than 20 dads fix their daughters’ natural hair on Oct. 26 at the University of Cincinnati’s Innovation Hub. …

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Oct
23
Celebrating 7 fathers: A note from our director

Service, family and fatherhood. These are the three pillars we look to highlight in the men chosen each year for our Esteemed 7 fatherhood recognition. The annual dinner takes place Nov. 16 at Great American Ball Park. At a mixer Tuesday, these …

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Oct
13
More than just a ride to the doctor

The other day, I misplaced my phone and had to spend some time looking before I found it. In that brief period without it, I had that sense of being cut off, disconnected from others. There’s that slight sense of …

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Aug
30
Youth Employment Program off to great start

Now that school is back in session, leaders of our Hamilton County Youth Employment Program (YEP) can take a look back at just how much good they did for young people this summer. They have quite a bit to brag …

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