fatherhood

An effort to better serve fathers in Hamilton County returned this week after a two-year hiatus. The inaugural version of the Hamilton County Fatherhood Collaborative operated from 2012 to 2016. Building on that good work, Hamilton County Job and Family …

An opinion column in a recent edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer highlighted Hamilton County Job and Family Service’s efforts to revive the Fatherhood Collaborative of Hamilton County.  The collaborative will work to better serve and value fathers involved with HCJFS, as well as …

An effort to better serve fathers in Hamilton County will re-launch next year after a two-year hiatus. The collaborative is meant to give community members a tool to meet challenges specific to fathers when dealing with community service organizations. The …

The HCJFS Fatherhood Design Team is an effort to understand a key part of families and sometimes misunderstood JFS client; fathers. Towards that end the team recently watched a video of a father/son retreat where men learned to connect with …

The HCJFS Fatherhood Design Team met last Friday. The team of staff and community members is looking at ways the agency can better serve fathers.  The meeting began with a presentation that served as a refresher on what Design Thinking …

We serve a lot of fathers in the programs throughout our agency. We assist them in feeding their children, help them acquire medical care for their children, assist them in paying child support, and help them find and train for …

HCJFS wants to improve our service to fathers in Hamilton County. We’ve started a design team to look at ways to improve our services and connections with dads. We need fathers to interview. We need both fathers and mothers to meet with us one Friday a month from noon to 4 p.m.

We are recruiting fathers and mothers to participate with HCJFS staff in a series of meetings aimed at helping JFS better engage and serve fathers. To achieve our goal, we need involvement and input from our community’s fathers and mothers. …

The father was “broken” when he reached out to the HCJFS Child Support division. The 42-year-old father of three was unemployed, had a criminal conviction on his record and had failed to graduate from high school. But he wanted to do right by his two young sons, ages 11 and 7.

Calvin Williams has worked on fatherhood projects for years. He has counseled hundreds, if not thousands, of men on how to have better relationships with their children, their children’s mothers and how to find a job in order to pay …