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The Go Pass from Red Bike is a discounted membership available to residents of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky who receive food assistance (SNAP) or energy assistance (HEAP and PIPP) or are clients of partner organizations.

The Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, and OhioMeansJobs Cincinnati-Hamilton County (OMJ) will host “Understanding Ohio’s High School Diploma Options”, from 8 to 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 4 at the OhioMeansJobs Cincinnati-Hamilton County site.

The Ohio Worker Benefits Portal will be down for maintenance from 6 p.m. March 21 until 6 a.m. March 26 for maintenance. Hamilton County Job and Family Services will be unable to access cases during business hours on March 22 and March 23. Consumers will be unable to access Medicaid information or cases throughout the entire shutdown.

In March we take time to honor the social workers at HCJFS who work on the front lines to keep kids safe and families safe and thriving.

Interested in summer employment? Hamilton County Job and Family Services’ previous Summer Youth Employment Program is now part of the Comprehensive Case Management Employment Program, a dynamic year-round program for county youth ages 14 to 24.

Have you moved, or changed your phone number? Have you gotten a raise, or lost your job? Has someone moved in our out of your household?

The American Legion has named our OMJ center the top center in Ohio for assisting veterans.

An innovative, award-winning partnership from HCJFS is continuing to help people who are “getting by” with food assistance get ahead in a new career.

HCJFS has partnered with the state and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service in this first-of-its-kind partnership meant to elevate food assistance recipients. The partnership has received national recognition for its innovative approach.

We run a one-stop employment center in Hamilton County and people often ask me what career fields are the most promising.

Of course information technology, truck driving and health care are at the top of the list, but I increasingly point to an old staple for the US economy: manufacturing.

Hamilton County’s OhioMeansJob Center is co-hosting a workshop on Thursday, Aug. 24 to discuss drug trends in the workplace.