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2012 |
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2-10-12 |
Starting on February 14th 2012,
Ohio EPPICard users who call the customer service hotline more than 10 times per
month will be charged a fee of 25 cents for each call over the 10th call. The
fee has always existed, but the vendor has not previously charged customers.
Monitoring has found that some customers call the customer service line
repeatedly each month, far exceeding the 10 call limit. |
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2-1-12 |
A young lady
who would love to celebrate her 16th birthday by connecting with an
adoptive parent is February’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County Job and Family
Services. Deborah
believes it is never too late to find a forever, loving family. She really wants
to be loved and cared for and says she would like a family that likes to
communicate and go out to eat at restaurants. To learn more about Deborah, click
here.
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1-31-12 |
It is the
season for tax scams. Click
here for tips
to avoid fraud and report those who engage in it. To learn more about safe, free
tax preparation, visit
http://www.makeworkpay.com/. |
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1-25-12 |
Child
Support consumers can now access their Child Support
case information and payment history through the new
Child Support Portal released by ODJFS. Both custodial
and non-custodial parents will be able to view up to a
year's payment history. Find out more information at
https://childsupport.ohio.gov. |
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1-3-12 |
A 14 year-old
aspiring hero is January’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County Job and Family
Services. Aschistian hopes to join the ranks of some of the modern day heroes by
becoming a police officer or a firefighter. Aschistian loves reading and
watching movies. A forever family that shares his love and takes frequent trips
to the library would be ideal. A video featuring Aschistian is available
here. |
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2011 |
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12-20-11 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling to pay for gas, food, health care and other
items can learn more about assistance available to them
in a Dec. 22 online chat with Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. The chat is an
opportunity to ask questions about public assistance
programs. To participate, click here prior to the 11
a.m. chat:
http://www.hcjfs.hamilton-co.org/BoldChat/Chat/CoverPage.htm |
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12-5-11 |
A
14-year-old girl who likes to write poems and songs is
December’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County and Family
Services.
Starlynn is an outgoing young lady who loves to
socialize. This is a girl who loves to talk! She would
do well in an outgoing family. Starlynn loves
music, especially rap and country, and some day wants to
be a music director or producer. A video featuring
Starlynn is available
here. |
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11-18-11 |
Click
here at 9 a.m. to watch the adoption of ten children
in celebration of National Adoption Month. Cody, Maxwell,
Zachary, Chloe, Ethan, Jamila, Elijah, Adam, Elijah and
Jonathon will all join loving families just in time for
the holidays. Watch the touching ceremony
here.
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11-16-11 |
Ten children will
join seven permanent, loving families Friday in a mass
adoption ceremony scheduled to celebrate National
Adoption Month. The full ceremony – scheduled for 9
a.m. in Judge James Cissell’s Hamilton County Probate
Court -- will be live-streamed over the Internet for all
of Hamilton County to see. The children, all victims of
abuse and neglect, will join new families in a touching
ceremony and celebrate afterwards with their
caseworkers, court-appointed advocates, extended
families, and other people special to their lives.
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11-10-11 |
Hamilton
County Job and Family Services will be closed tomorrow,
Nov. 11, in celebration of Veteran's Day. Please plan
accordingly. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
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11-4-11 |
"Damarcus Jackson's heartbreaking death has this
community - and JFS - asking serious questions. This
tragedy has reverberated through our building. When a
child in our care dies, we take it very personally. Even
more than that, several here had come to know Damarcus,
and his loss has left them with heavy hearts. I assure
you we, as much as anyone, want to get answers to those
questions." Read the remainder of Director Moira Weir's
letter about Damarcus's death
here.
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11-4-11 |
"The
recession, budget cuts, and exploding caseloads all have
had a devastating impact on our community, the people we
serve, and our agency. This summer, this volatile
combination of events impacted our ability to provide
services in the manner you and we have become
accustomed. For that, we are truly sorry." Read the
remainder of Director Moira Weir's letter to the public,
including the steps HCJFS is taking to correct the
problem,
here.
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11-3-11 |
The statewide system HCJFS uses to determine public
assistance eligibility is back in normal operation today.
HCJFS will make every effort to contact individuals
today that were scheduled for a telephone interview
yesterday while the system was down. Questions or
concerns can be directed to 946-1000.
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11-2-11 |
An energetic 15-year-old
Bengals fan is November’s Waiting Child at Hamilton
County and Family Services. Daniel will choose to be
outdoors any day of the week, especially if it means
he’s playing football or basketball. He plays
quarterback and running back for his school’s team, and
he loves cheering on the Bengals – even when they’re
losing. Daniel does well in school and his favorite
subjects are math and science. He also likes to draw.
Daniel’s dream day involves fast food, his favorite
comic books and some quality time with his remote
control cars. A video featuring Daniel is available at
http://www.youtube.com/user/hcjfs?feature=mhee#p/u/4/u7SwDDm-BMQ
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11-2-11 |
The
statewide system HCJFS uses to determine public
assistance eligibility is unexpectedly down today. This
will limit our ability to handle telephone appointments
or look up client information for consumers that call
946-1000. We hope to resolve these issues as soon as
possible and apologize for the inconvenience.
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10-31-11 |
Each year
the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency
offers help to local residents struggling to pay their
winter heating bills through the Home Energy Assistance
Program. This year, residents interested in the services
should call the appointment and information line at
(866) 747-1039. By calling that number, residents can
receive information, enroll in the program, receive
financial assistance with their heating bill or receive
help to purchase fuel for their home.
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10-26-11 |
Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann and Job and
Family Services Director Moira Weir on Wednesday ordered
an independent ombudsman to conduct a review of the case
that resulted in DeMarcus Jackson returning to his
biological family. To learn more click
here. |
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9-30-11 |
A
16-year-old boy who loves dogs so much he would someday
like to become a veterinarian is October’s Waiting Child
at Hamilton County and Family Services. Jamal dreams of
a family with a dog to love and follow him around. His
love of animals makes visits to the zoo among his
favorites, along with trips to Camp Joy, a summer camp
for disadvantaged youth. Jamal also enjoys school,
skateboarding and playing flag football. He is active
and would love a family that stays busy. He especially
would love to have older brothers or sisters to hang out
with.
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9-29-11 |
By now, parents and
providers should have been alerted that Hamilton County
will begin using swipe cards to process child care
payments beginning Oct. 30. To learn more, click
here.
Those swipe cards, also known as Ohio ECC cards, will be
mailed beginning Oct. 7. The mailing will include
instructions on how to use the cards. |
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9-9-11 |
Beginning Oct. 30, 2011 Hamilton County Job and Family
Services will be replacing vouchers with swipe cards.
Parents' vouchers will end Oct. 29
and they will be required to swipe their children in and
out each day. Providers must have the swipe-card system
installed to receive payment from the state. The new
system will allow for better tracking of your taxpayer
dollars. To learn more about the changes and what
actions you need to take to prepare for them, click
here.
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9-1-11 |
Sept. 1 --
A 12-year-old boy with an
artistic eye and the mind of an engineer, Keuntay enjoys
tinkering around the house by taking gadgets apart and
fixing them back up. He would like to be an engineer
when he grows up. To learn more about Keuntay, click
here. |
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8-23-11 |
Hamilton County will hold a live public
chat 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 24, to discuss and answer
questions about the more subtle signs of child abuse,
along with the importance of the public reporting
suspicions of abuse and neglect to the county’s
Children’s Services Division.
To participate and ask questions
in the 2 p.m. chat, residents can click on this link:
http://www.hcjfs.hamilton-co.org/BoldChat/Chat/ChildAbuse.htm
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8-22-11 |
Hamilton County has launched a public
awareness campaign around child abuse that specifically
targets those who encounter children in the course of
their jobs and encourages them to report suspicions of
abuse and neglect. The “Do Ask, Do Tell” campaign goes
beyond the bruises and encourages teachers, police
officers, doctors, child care workers and other
legally-designated “mandated reporters” to look for less
obvious signs of neglect or even circumstances where
children are placed into dangerous situations. The
mandated reporters are to ASK themselves if they have
worries about the children they encounter and to TELL
Hamilton County Children’s Services when they do.
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8-8-11 |
Hamilton County residents can ask questions, voice
concerns and learn more about child support collection
and enforcement in an online chat with Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services on Wednesday,
August 10. The chat will take place from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. Child Support cases are confidential by law,
so individual cases cannot be discussed in a public
forum. General questions will be answered. Click here to
chat:
http://www.hcjfs.hamilton-co.org/BoldChat/Chat/ChildSupportChat.htm
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8-1-11 |
A 15-year-old girl who
loves to sing and dance in drama productions is August’s
Waiting Child at Hamilton County and Family Services.
Taylor is involved in drama at school and doesn’t miss
an opportunity to showcase her talents. Like most
teenagers her age, music and television are defining
points in her life. She doesn’t have a musical
preference, but will listen to just about anything. She
also enjoys taking long walks and roller skating.
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8-1-11 |
Residents interested in
learning more about the coming changes to the
publicly-funded child care system in Ohio can do so in
an Aug. 2 public Internet chat with Hamilton County Job
and Family Services. The chat, scheduled for 1:30 p.m.,
is an opportunity for both parents and providers – or
potential providers – to ask questions about the
county’s child care program, including changes regarding
income eligibility limits and the coming swipe-card
system. Also, parents can get information about finding
child care and the financial assistance available to
them, while providers can learn about starting a home
day care and/or caring for children who receive
financial assistance through Hamilton County.
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7-28-11 |
A new
Most Wanted poster featuring nine parents who combined
owe nearly half a million dollars in child support
payments will be released today by Hamilton County Job
and Family Services as one of the many planned
activities for National Child Support Month. The seven
men and two women owe more than $488,000 to 18 different
children. The person with on the poster with the highest
delinquent account is James M. Woodruff, 60, whose last
known address was on Iris Avenue in Cincinnati. He owes
more than $104,000 to two children.
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7-26-11 |
July 18 -- HCJFS
will host a live chat at 11:30 a.m. Thursday for
residents with questions about public assistance. To
participate or set a reminder, click
here. Jim Ashmore,
a manager in Performance Improvement, will discuss
Medicaid, food assistance and cash assistance. For more
information, click
here.
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7-18-11 |
Hamilton County residents
interested in the adoption process and learning more
about the children who are available can ask questions
during a live chat scheduled for Wednesday. Recruiter
Carrie Fiasco will answer questions from 11:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. July 20. Residents can participate in the
chat by clicking on a link that will be posted on
www.hcjfs.org prior to the
start. The Department of Job and Family Services has
about 850 foster children on any given day, with about
225 available for adoption.
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7-11-11 |
Income
guidelines for publicly-funded child care have changed.
A family's gross monthly household income now must be
equal to or less than 125 percent of the federal poverty
level (determined by family size) in order to initially
obtain assistance. Families already receiving child care
assistance must have incomes that are equal to or less
than 200 percent of the federal poverty level to
maintain eligibility for service. It is extremely
important that those receiving assistance now complete
reviews in a timely manner or they might be forced to
reapply under the lower income guidelines.
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7-1-11 |
A
14-year-old boy who plays guard on his school’s
basketball team and some day wants to be a doctor is
July’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County and Family
Services. Andwele, or AD, spends hours after school
working on his jump shot. But he’s a down-to-earth kid
who doesn’t harbor dreams of someday joining the NBA,
instead he wants to work hard at school so the he can
become a doctor.
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6-30-11 |
Hamilton County families receiving state food assistance
have a healthier option for fresh produce at two local
farmers’ markets that are now accepting the state’s food
debit card. Findlay Market and Wyoming Ave. Farmers’
Market will now accept the food cards from the 138,000
residents of Hamilton County who are assisted by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services in
meeting their daily food needs. One out of every six
Hamilton County residents receives food assistance. In
2010, Hamilton County Job and Family Services
distributed $216.6 million in food assistance.
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6-13-11 |
Nearly 40 teens in Hamilton County’s
foster care system will bid farewell to high school and
say hello to their futures at this year’s “Celebration
of Dreams” event. The 13th annual event will
be held at 6 p.m. June 16 at the 20th Century
Theater in Oakley.
The event includes dinner
and an awards ceremony highlighted by keynote speaker
Dr. Gregory H. Williams, president of the University of
Cincinnati.
Williams will relate his personal tale of
overcoming poverty and other challenges to achieve
success.
The night will be spent honoring teens who have overcome
tough backgrounds – sometimes abusive backgrounds -- to
graduate high school. The 37 teens invite their foster
families and other important people in their lives, such
as caseworkers, mentors, court-appointed special
advocates and guardian ad litems. They receive gifts and
certificates for their achievement.
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6-6-11 |
We are
currently experiencing record numbers of applicants for
public assistance. Because of this, we are running up to
four hours behind on the times for our telephone
interviews. If you have been scheduled for a telephone
interview with our agency and have not heard from us, we
request your patience and ask that you please not call,
e-mail, or utilize the on-line chat tool to ask if you
interview will be completed unless we have gone
beyond the four-hour delay noted above. We greatly
apologize for this inconvenience and are working
diligently to reduce this backlog.
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6-3-11 |
A
brother and sister team – one extroverted and the other
a bit shy – are June’s Waiting Children at Hamilton
County and Family Services.Thirteen-year-old
Destiny is a big sister who loves to be the center of
attention while her introverted 10-year-old brother,
Cameron, would rather watch and listen. Destiny and
Cameron may seem like opposites but they have quite a
bit in common. Both enjoy video games, rap music and
their favorite TV channel, Disney.
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5-24-11 |
Hamilton
County Job and Family Services has been expedited
through the Council on Accreditation's re-accreditation
process after the Council's exhaustive review found the
agency in compliance in all practice areas. The
Council’s program of quality improvement is designed to
identify providers that have met high performance
standards and have made a commitment to their
stakeholders to deliver the very best quality services.
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5-18-11 |
May 18 --
In 2010, Hamilton County JFS served one of every three
county residents in its Child Support program, one of
every six county residents in its public assistance
programs and one of every 13 county children in its
child welfare program. To learn more about the agency
and how it helps Hamilton County residents, check out
the recently released
annual report.
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5-18-11 |
Hamilton County residents interested in helping the
community’s 850 foster children can learn more Monday,
May 23, when a MayDay for Foster Children informational
rally is held on Fountain Square to raise awareness
around foster care.The MayDay event, scheduled from
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. will feature speeches by local
dignitaries and foster care experts – slated to start at
noon – as well as information booths to educate
interested parties in the positive aspects of foster
parenting, mentoring, helping children through the child
protection court process and more. Dan Hurley of Channel
12’s Newsmakers will emcee the event.
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5-17-11 |
Residents interested in
learning more about the subsidized child care and the
changes that were enacted this month can sign on to a
public Internet chat May 18 with Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. The chat will
address financial assistance, reimbursement ranges,
authorized providers and much more. It is scheduled from
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on May 18. Log in at
www.hcjfs.org.
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5-17-11 |
Foster and adoptive
parents who selflessly dedicate their lives to helping
children will be honored at the annual Butterflies and
Blue Ribbons event on Wednesday, May 18. The Southwest
Ohio Family Care Affiliate (SWOFCA) will honor foster
and adoptive parents from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Krohn
Conservatory in Eden Park. The event will feature
speakers, food and fun for all. The official program
begins at 4 p.m. After the event, families will tour the
colorful butterfly display.
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5-9-11 |
Hamilton County residents
interested in foster care and adoption can ask questions
during a live chat scheduled for Wednesday. The
Department of Job and Family Services has about 850
foster children on any given day, with about 225
available for adoption. The chat is scheduled for 10
a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 11. Residents can
participate in the chat by clicking on a link that will
be posted on
www.hcjfs.org
prior to the start. Those
interested in foster parenting or adopting can also
visit the county’s website,
www.hckids.org,
to learn more about both and see some of the children
available for adoption.
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5-2-11 |
An outgoing, athletic
13-year-old girl is May’s Waiting Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. Like
most girls her age, Raja likes to head to the mall for a
little fun. After school, if she’s not at the mall,
she’s probably talking on the phone with her friends or
practicing her dance moves. She also enjoys sports, both
on and off the field. Along with being an athlete
herself, she likes to watch basketball, football and
volleyball. Her favorite part of the school day is
reading class and she’ll read just about anything she
can get her hands on.
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5-2-11 |
The MayDay
for Foster Care Event scheduled for Fountain Square
today has been canceled due to inclement weather. We
apologize for the inconvenience.
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4-29-11 |
Starting
Monday, May 2, HCJFS will have new hours for consumers
to chat live over a secure Internet connection about
their food assistance, Medicaid and other public
assistance cases. These chats will now be held 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday. No public
assistance chats on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Please note
there are different hours for child support and child
care chats. Child support chats are offered 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. weekdays, and child care chats are offered
7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. weekdays until May 9. After May
9, the child care chats will move to 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
weekdays.
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4-29-11 |
Hamilton County
residents interested in helping the community’s 850
foster children can learn more Monday, May 2, when a
MayDay for Foster Children informational rally is held
on Fountain Square to raise awareness around foster
care. The MayDay event, scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. will feature speeches by local dignitaries and
foster care experts – slated to start at noon – as well
as information booths to educate interested parties in
the positive aspects of foster parenting, mentoring,
helping children through the child protection court
process and more. Dan Hurley of Channel 12’s Newsmakers
will emcee the event.
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4-18-11 |
Changes to Ohio's
subsidized child care program are coming May 1. Parents
can now authorize only two providers per child, per
week, and the range for full-time reimbursement for home
providers is now the same as for licensed providers. To
learn more about these changes, please read this
letter or log into our public
Internet chat at 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 20.
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4-4-11 |
Hamilton County residents
can ask questions, voice concerns and learn more about
child support collection and enforcement in an online
chat with Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services on Wednesday, April 6. The chat will take place
from 11 a.m. to noon. Child Support cases are
confidential by law, so individual cases cannot be
discussed in a public forum. General questions will be
answered.
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4-1-11 |
An
athletic boy who celebrates his 12th birthday
this month is April’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. Omar is an active
and dynamic young man who loves tumbling and basketball.
He’d someday like to be a gymnast. Omar loves being part
of a team and he loves a social atmosphere. His activity
of choice is hanging out at the Boys & Girls Club or the
local recreation center. In the winter, Omar catches up
on his reading, but in the summer it’s all about the
swimming pool and the park. If he could live in Florida
where it’s warm and he could swim all of the time, he
would! He’d love to be adopted by a family where he
would have a brother close to his age, as long as the
family is fun and likes to participate in lots of
sports!
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3-31-11 |
More
than 5,000 colorful pinwheels will be planted at Burnet
Woods Park at noon Saturday, April 2, in a dramatic
attempt to draw attention to the horrific problem of
child abuse in this community. “Pinwheels for
Prevention” is an annual statewide campaign organized to
promote awareness and prevention of child abuse by
planting a colorful pinwheel for each report of abuse
received by the county in the previous year. Many
citizens are unaware of how widespread child abuse is in
their local communities. In Hamilton County, 5,058
reports of abuse and neglect were made to the 241-KIDS
child abuse reporting hotline in 2010.
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3-11-11 |
Need help paying the
utility bills?
The
Percentage of Income Payment Plan helps those who
struggle to make utility payments. |
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3-8-11 |
A live chat will be held at
10 a.m. March 9
for job seekers to ask questions about local
opportunities, workers to learn about assistance that
will help them move up the career ladder and employers
to explore what the county’s Super Jobs program can
offer them in terms of filling open positions.
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3-3-11 |
Hamilton County’s Job and
Family Services Department has been chosen to
participate in an innovative program designed to improve
the financial well-being of children by increasing the
financial literacy and standing of parents who pay child
support. The Asset Building for Financial Responsibility
Program will connect low-income, non-custodial parents
involved in the child support system with financial
education and asset building programs. The goal is to
develop financial stability among the parents, so their
children will receive the support they need to lead
happy, healthy lives.
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3-1-11 |
A
16-year-old animal lover who wants to be a veterinarian
is March’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services. Evalacia’s compassion and
love of animals will serve her well if she continues on
her chosen path of becoming a veterinarian someday.
She’s someone who knows what she wants and has the
persistence to achieve it, with the right family to love
and support her on the way. She likes school, especially
social studies. Reading is one of her great joys – and
devouring a good book helps her hone her writing skills,
as well. She also loves to dance, and will shake her
hips to just about any type of music that’s playing on
the radio.
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2-25-11 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care
and other items can learn more about assistance
available to them in a March 2 online chat. Many who are
working but making lower incomes do not realize they are
eligible for a debit card to help pay for food. Also,
the elderly and many low-income children are eligible
for health care assistance. And those in between jobs
can receive cash assistance to help them back on their
feet. A link will be posted on
www.hcjfs.org prior
to the 10 a.m. chat. Just click on it!
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2-22-11 |
Ohio
EPPICard users who call the customer service hotline more than 10 times per
month will be charged a fee of 25 cents for each call over number 10 starting on
March 1. The fee has always existed, but the vendor has not previously charged
customers. Monitoring has found that some customers call the customer service
line repeatedly each month, far exceeding the 10 call limit.
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2-18-11 |
Hamilton
County's Department of Job and Family Services will be
closed for President's Day. Information on agency
programs will be available on the county's web site,
www.hcjfs.org.
The 241-KIDS and 421-LIFE hotlines will be in operation. |
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2-18-11 |
Ohio's
home child care providers recently received a mailing
from a state vendor that included their social security
numbers on the mailing label. As a result, the state and
the vendor have made arrangements to purchase one year
of identity-theft protection for the providers. Click
here for details.
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2-10-11 |
More than
17,000 Hamilton County residents have used a county sponsored Prescription Drug
Discount Card to make 40,000 purchases in the first two years of the program,
saving a total of $394,000 off retail price. The users averaged a savings of
$9.85 per purchase, which is about 22% off regular pricing.
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2-4-11 |
Hamilton County now accepts online applications for public assistance. The
agency has created a video to help consumers through the process. Learn more by
clicking
here.
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2-3-11 |
Did you
know JFS now conducts all recertification interviews by
phone? This also applies for recipients applying for an
additional category of assistance. There is no need to
make the trip downtown, pay for parking and gas and
spend time standing in line. For more information, click
here.
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2-1-11 |
Why pay to
get your taxes done when the United Way is helping
families file for free online or with a tax preparation
specialist at a local tax site? This is also a good way
to determine if you can claim the Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC). |
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2-1-11 |
A 5-year-old boy who loves
the Cincinnati Reds is February’s Waiting Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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1-3-11 |
A 7-year-old boy who shows
incredible artistic talent is January’s Waiting
Child at Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services. |
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2010
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12-22-10 |
Hamilton County’s Job and
Family Services Department will close at noon on Dec. 23
and remain closed until Monday, Dec. 27. The agency will
close again for New Year’s Eve. |
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12-13-10 |
Hamilton
County’s Job and Family Services Department will host a
webinar Wednesday to help single parents and others
recognize warning signs of inappropriate caregivers for
children. The half-hour webinar will feature a
PowerPoint presentation with audio, as well as a chat
area where the presenter will answer questions from the
audience. The webinar is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 10:30
a.m. on Dec. 15. |
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12-6-10 |
Hamilton
County’s Job and Family Services Department will host
two free webinars in December on the topics of
sanctioning public assistance recipients who do not meet
work requirements and carefully choosing caretakers for
your children.
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12-6-10 |
Due to overwhelming demand,
Hamilton County's Job and Family Services Department has filled all interview
slots for HEAP services and walk-in appointments are not available. Please visit
the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency website for alternative
arrangements:
http://www.cincy-caa.org/homenergy.asp |
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12-1-10 |
13-year-old twin boys who love sports – but
different sports – are December’s Waiting Children at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. |
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11-29-10 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services will offer a live public chat Dec. 1 to residents eager
to learn more about the subsidized child care program offered by more than 1,500
home providers and centers to more than 14,000 Hamilton County children. |
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11-23-10 |
Nearly 135,000 Hamilton County
residents will receive food assistance from Hamilton County’s Department of Job
and Family Services this holiday season, allowing them a brief respite from
tough economic times. A record number of recipients receive monthly debit cards
from the agency, allowing them to buy groceries for their families. The families
qualify for the aid based on their low incomes. |
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11-17-10 |
Seven children - including
five from one family - will join permanent, loving families Friday in a mass
adoption ceremony scheduled to celebrate National Adoption Month. The full
ceremony will be live-streamed over the Internet for all of Hamilton County to
see. Visit
www.hcjfs.org for details.
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11-16-10 |
Low-income residents who need help
with food, medical needs or daily expenses now have an easier path to assistance
through a new website with an online application.
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11-2-10 |
An 11-year-old boy who collects
rocks and admires beautiful flowers is November’s Waiting Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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11-2-10 |
Hamilton County residents
can ask questions, voice concerns and learn more about child support collection
and enforcement in an online chat with Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services on Wednesday, Nov. 3.
|
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10-21-10 |
Hamilton County’s Job and Family
Services Department was the only department in the state of Ohio and one of only
30 in the country to be recognized for providing the community with outstanding
service in its food assistance program.
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10-18-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling to pay for gas, food, health care and other items can learn more
about assistance available to them in an Oct. 20 online chat with Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
10-3-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in an Oct. 6 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
|
|
10-1-10 |
A 10-year-old girl who loves
visiting the zoo and museums is October’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
9-30-10 |
For 10 years, The Mayerson Center
for Safe and Healthy Children at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
has gently served Hamilton County’s tiniest victims of unimaginable abuse. |
|
9-27-10 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services will offer a live public chat Sept. 29 to residents
eager to learn more about the subsidized child care program offered by more than
1,500 home providers and centers to more than 14,000 Hamilton County children. |
|
9-20-10 |
Hamilton County residents
can ask questions, voice concerns and learn more about child support collection
and enforcement in an online chat with Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services on Wednesday, Sept. 22.
|
|
9-1-10 |
An 11-year-old boy who loves
sports and scary movies is August’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
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|
8-30-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling to pay for gas, food, health care and other items can learn more
about assistance available to them in a Sept. 1 online chat with Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
8-16-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in an Aug. 18 online chat with Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
|
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8-11-10 |
Several dozen Hamilton County
foster children who have accomplished reading goals this summer will be
celebrated Friday, Aug. 13, with a party at Mt. Airy Forest that will feature
food, music, fun activities and rewards for their hard work.
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8-10-10 |
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Famer Joe
Morgan will provide opening remarks at a local Fatherhood Conference aimed at
strengthening fathers, families and the Greater Cincinnati community. “A
Brighter Future: Strengthening Fathers for Families and Community” is scheduled
for 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 13, at the Kingsgate Marriott. |
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8-9-10 |
Hamilton County residents can ask questions, voice concerns and
learn more about child support collection and enforcement in an online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services on Wednesday, Aug. 11.
|
|
8-4-10 |
A new Most Wanted poster featuring
eight parents who now owe more than $335,000 in child support payments will be
released today by Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services as one
of the many planned activities for National Child Support Month.
|
|
8-2-10 |
A 12-year-old girl who is thinking
about a career in nursing is August’s Waiting Child at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
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7-14-10 |
Hamilton County needs more
businesses, schools, non-profits and faith-based organizations to serve as sites
where public assistance recipients develop good work habits and job skills.
|
|
7-6-10 |
Hamilton County residents struggling with the high
cost of gas, food, health care and other items can learn more about public
assistance programs in a live online chat with Hamilton County's Department of
Job and Family Services tomorrow. Jim Ashmore, a manager in Performance
Improvement, will answer questions about Medicaid, food assistance, cash
assistance and other programs 10-11 a.m. July 7. To participate, visit
www.hcjfs.org and click on the link posted
under Today at HCJFS.
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7-1-10 |
A 12-year-old boy who is
fascinated by crime shows and aspires to a career in law enforcement is July’s
Waiting Child at Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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6-22-10 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services is one of 25 child welfare agencies in Ohio now offering
innovative, alternative approaches to serving the families of abused children.
The agency was recently selected as one of 10 counties to soon join 15 pilot
counties in Ohio to participate in a program designed to produce better outcomes
for abused and neglected children. |
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6-18-10 |
With Father’s Day around the
corner, Hamilton County and Lighthouse Youth Services have teamed together to
present a Fatherhood Conference aimed at strengthening fathers, families and the
Greater Cincinnati community.
|
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6-14-10 |
More than 50 teens in Hamilton
County’s foster care system will bid farewell to high school and say hello to
their futures at this year’s “Celebration of Dreams” event. |
|
6-7-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a June 9 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
|
|
6-3-10 |
Dreams Come True Through Adoption
is the theme of a recruitment campaign launched this week by Hamilton County in
an effort to find adoptive homes for more than 200 waiting children.
|
|
6-1-10 |
A 12-year-old boy who likes
reading and singing and wants to join the military is June’s Waiting Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
6-1-10 |
Hamilton County residents can ask
questions, voice concerns and learn more about child support collection and
enforcement in an online chat with Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services on Wednesday, June 2. |
|
6-1-10 |
Heading into Memorial Day Weekend,
a group of 18 Ohio counties is working on a labor of love to protect the state’s
children and families. The ProtectOhio consortium today asked the federal
government to extend a waiver program that allows child protective service
agencies in those 18 counties the financial flexibility to better serve
youngsters and strengthen families. |
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5-27-10 |
Hamilton County foster youth will
take to the streets of downtown Cincinnati Friday in an effort to raise
awareness around foster care and child abuse during National Foster Care Month.
The May 28 event will feature a walk from the Hamilton County Department of Job
and Family Services, 222 E. Central Parkway, to Fountain Square. The walk starts
at 11:30 a.m. and the foster youth invite anyone who supports the cause to walk
along. The event is supported by the Hamilton County Foster Care Youth Advisory
Board and the Higher Education Mentoring Initiative. |
|
5-18-10 |
Foster and adoptive parents who
selflessly dedicate their lives to helping children will be honored at the
annual Butterflies and Blue Ribbons event on Wednesday, May 19.
|
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5-17-10 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services will offer a live public chat May 19 to residents eager
to learn more about the subsidized child care program offered by more than 1,500
home providers and centers to more than 14,000 Hamilton County children. |
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5-10-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a May 12 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
5-3-10 |
A 13-year-old girl who likes arts
and crafts and longs to visit Disneyland is May’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
4-20-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in an April 21 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
4-19-10 |
Hamilton County has been chosen as
one of 11 communities across the nation to participate in a
nationally-recognized program helping youth involved in both the child welfare
and juvenile justice systems. |
|
4-9-10 |
More than 5,300 colorful pinwheels
will be planted at Burnet Woods Park at 3 p.m. April 12 in a dramatic attempt to
draw attention to the horrific problem of child abuse. “Pinwheels for
Prevention: It's Your Turn to Raise the Leaders of Tomorrow" is a statewide
campaign organized by the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund to promote awareness and
prevention of child abuse. |
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4-8-10 |
Southwest Ohio foster and adoptive
parents, along with child welfare workers, will learn the importance of
operating as a cohesive unit to ensure the most positive outcomes for children
at the Southwest Ohio Regional Training Center’s 7th Annual Training Conference
on April 16 and 17.
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|
4-2-10 |
Lighthouse Youth Services will
host Dr. Kirk E. Harris, a facilitator with the National Fatherhood Leadership
Group, for an update on the state of the fatherhood movement and REAL Dads
graduation celebration on Tuesday, April 6 at New Thought Unity Center, 1401 E.
McMillan Ave., from 6 to 8 p.m.
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4-1-10 |
A brother and sister who both
enjoy playing soccer are April’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
3-22-10 |
Hamilton County residents
can ask questions, voice concerns and learn more about child support collection
and enforcement in an online chat with Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services on Wednesday, March 24.
|
|
3-15-10 |
Medicaid
customers and providers may scan and e-mail spend-down information to the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services at
SpendDownPointOfContact@jfs.hamilton-co.org.
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|
3-8-10 |
Hamilton County residents with
questions about their Medicaid, food assistance and cash assistance cases can
chat live with workers about their cases. The Hamilton County Department of Job
and Family Services today began offering private chats 10 a.m.-2 p.m. weekdays
to help those with case-related questions.
|
|
3-8-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a March 10 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
3-1-10 |
An 8-year-old girl who likes Dora
the Explorer and riding Big Wheels is March’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
2-22-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a Feb. 24 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
|
|
2-17-10 |
Working families
served by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services could
benefit significantly from the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the
Child Tax Credit as well as information on two new federal tax credits. |
|
2-8-10 |
Hamilton County residents can ask
questions, voice concerns and learn more about child support collection and
enforcement in an online chat with Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services on Wednesday, Feb. 10. |
|
2-2-10 |
An artist and violinist who would
someday like to be an attorney is February’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
2-2-10 |
Hamilton County foster care
providers transitioning to other public or private networks can learn more about
their options at public forums to be held on Feb. 4 and 5 at the county’s
Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
2-1-10 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services wants mothers throughout the county to know the warning
signs when it comes to interaction between their children and their partner’s -
their child’s life may depend on it.
|
|
1-26-10 |
Hamilton County residents with
questions concerning Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services’
decision to transition foster care to network providers can receive answers in a
live chat scheduled for Wednesday.
|
|
1-25-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a Jan. 27 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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|
1-21-10 |
As of Jan. 22, Hamilton County's
Department of Job and Family Services will begin working exclusively with
contracted providers for foster care services. All county foster homes will
transfer to network providers. This change will allow the homes to receive
additional support and resources, while the county can reallocate its limited
resources to more urgent areas of need. |
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1-19-10 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a Jan. 20 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
|
|
1-11-10 |
Residents interested in becoming
home child care providers or obtaining financial assistance for child care can
learn more about subsidized child care in a Jan. 13 online chat with Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
1-4-10 |
Two brothers with a passion for
sports are January’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton County’s Department of Job
and Family Services. |
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12-23-09 |
Due to changes by
the State, Hamilton County Child Care providers will notice some big differences
in 2010. Starting this spring, providers will be paid monthly by the State. They
will sign agreements with the State and begin paying union dues. As time goes
on, they will do more by computer and less by paper. |
|
12-11-09 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services would like local residents to participate in a survey to
help gauge awareness of adoption and foster care within the community.
|
|
12-11-09 |
Hamilton County residents who are
thinking about foster care or adoption can learn more Dec. 14 at an event hosted
by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
12-1-09 |
A 14-year-old who likes sports and
wants to be a U.S. Marine is December’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
11-30-09 |
Hamilton County residents can ask
questions, voice concerns and learn more about child support collection and
enforcement in an online chat with Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services on Wednesday, Dec. 2. |
|
11-17-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a Nov. 18 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
11-12-09 |
Six children will officially join
permanent, loving families Nov. 20 in Hamilton County’s third annual mass
adoption ceremony to celebrate National Adoption Month. The county’s Job and
Family Services Department is teaming with the county’s Probate Court to
organize the adoption event. Six children, all victims of abuse and neglect,
will join new families. A celebration will be held afterward. While adoption
finalizations are normally confidential, the families have agreed to invite the
media to this event. |
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11-9-09 |
Paper cash
assistance checks soon will become a thing of the past. By early 2010, all of
the 27,000 Ohio Works First (OWF), Disability Financial Assistance and Refugee
Cash Assistance consumers in Hamilton County will either get their monthly
payments through direct deposit or the Ohio EPPICard Debit MasterCard.
|
|
11-3-09 |
A 12-year-old who likes family
dinners and fun vacations is November’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
11-2-09 |
Hamilton County residents thinking
about adoption can learn more Wednesday in an online chat by the Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services as part of its National Adoption Month
activities.
|
|
11-2-09 |
Hamilton County residents
who are thinking about foster care or adoption can learn more Tuesday at a
Forest Park event hosted by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services to help celebrate National Adoption Month. |
|
10-23-09 |
Users of Hamilton County’s new
discount card for prescriptions drugs saved more than $16,000 on September
purchases, making it the most successful month yet for the program.
|
|
10-21-09 |
Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services has been working to find alternate medical
care coverage for 29 people now served by the Disability Medical Assistance
(DMA) program. The program officially ends Oct. 31. |
|
10-6-09 |
A 15-year-old aspiring fashion
designer is October’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services. |
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10-5-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in an Oct. 7 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
|
|
9-30-09 |
A
professional filmmaker and former foster child will share her life’s story – a
tale of her mother’s drug addiction, her family breakup and her time in the
child welfare system – at an Oct. 13 event designed to benefit the area’s foster
care community.
|
|
9-28-09 |
An assistant director in charge of
child support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat Tuesday, Sept. 29. |
|
9-21-09 |
Residents interested in becoming
home child care providers or obtaining financial assistance for child care can
learn more about subsidized child care in a Sept. 23 online chat with Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
9-18-09 |
The Public Children’s Services
Association of Ohio chose a local social worker and foster family for state
awards recognizing their outstanding work with abused and neglected children.
|
|
9-16-09 |
Hamilton County residents who owe
child or spousal support can now pay online by credit or debit card, providing a
flexible, secure method of making on-time payments. |
|
9-1-09 |
Effective today, the Hamilton
County Department of Job and Family Services will no longer handle operations of
the Mount Airy Center homeless shelter. The agency has transferred operations to
Talbert House. |
|
8-31-09 |
Hamilton County residents thinking
about foster care or adoption can learn more about the home studies required for
approval on Wednesday in an online chat with the Hamilton County Department of
Job and Family Services.
|
|
8-21-09 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services recently received an award for achieving the highest
payment accuracy rate in food stamps among the 14 largest urban counties in a
six-state region of the Midwest.
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|
8-20-09 |
More than 3,000 local residents
who have child support-related warrants issued through Hamilton County’s
Juvenile and Domestic Relations courts have one more day to take advantage of
amnesty this week and re-engage with the child support system without penalty.
|
|
8-17-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in an Aug. 19 online chat with Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
8-17-09 |
More than 3,000 local residents
who have child support-related warrants issued through Hamilton County’s
Juvenile and Domestic Relations courts can take advantage of amnesty this week
and re-engage with the child support system without penalty.
|
|
8-10-09 |
An assistant director in charge of
child support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat Tuesday, Aug. 11. |
|
8-4-09 |
A 15-year-old who describes
himself as “funny” and likes to fish is August’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
7-31-09 |
A new Most Wanted poster featuring
eight parents who owe more than $400,000 in child support payments combined will
be released today by Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services as
one of the many planned activities for National Child Support Month in August.
|
|
7-2-09 |
Abused children, laid-off
parents and vulnerable senior citizens are just a few of the Southwest Ohio
residents who will suffer under proposed state budget cuts to human services. |
|
7-1-09 |
A 10-year-old Bengal’ fan is
July’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services. Lamont loves football and plays on his school’s football team. When
he’s not playing he just can’t get enough of the Bengal, Rams and Patriots. |
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6-29-09 |
Starting July 1, Child Support clients will get
the option of making online payments using Visa, MasterCard, Discover and
American Express as part of the new Point and Pay service.
Now, they can only use MasterCard. |
|
6-24-09 |
More than 50 teens in Hamilton
County’s foster care system will bid farewell to high school and say hello to
their futures at this year’s “Celebration of Dreams” event. |
|
6-17-09 |
Hamilton County residents
can now listen to Internet radiocasts for information on topics such as
employment services, foster care and child support thanks to a free online
service. Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services is now posting
radio interviews on key subject matters at
www.blogtalkradio.com
in an effort to help Hamilton County residents better understand the agency’s
services. |
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6-16-09 |
Max & Erma's restaurant in Kenwood will donate 20 percent of its proceeds on
July 8 to the Foster Child Enrichment Council, a volunteer group that strives to
enhance the quality of life for abused and neglected children in Hamilton
County.
|
|
6-15-09 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services was awarded four 2009 achievement awards from the
National Association of Counties for innovative programs that contribute to and
enhance county government.
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|
6-15-09 |
An assistant director in charge of
child support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat 2-3 p.m. Wednesday, June 17. |
|
6-2-09 |
Two brothers who are close in age
and love the outdoors are June’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
6-2-09 |
The recently announced Higher Education Mentoring
Initiative (HEMI) is seeking mentors to help Hamilton
County foster children finish high school and advance
through college or technical school.
|
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6-2-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a June 3 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
|
|
6-2-09 |
The Hamilton County Department of
Job and Family Services will tap the power of a free online service called
BlogTalkRadio to help people gain a better understanding of its services. |
|
5-19-09 |
Hamilton County residents with
questions about their child support cases can now have private online chats with
a caseworker to get the answers they need. Hamilton County’s Department of Job
and Family Services now offers the private chats 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays to
help those with specific questions about their child support cases. The county
has traditionally offered monthly general, public chats on child support, but
confidential, case-specific information could not be discussed in a public
forum.
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5-18-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a May 20 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
5-18-09 |
The Everyday Heroes collaborative
will host Foster Care on the Square Tuesday to help generate awareness and
spread information about the need for foster parents in the Greater Cincinnati
area. Members of the collaborative will have information booths at the square
and will answer questions from prospective foster parents from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Everyone is invited to stop by and learn more. |
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5-14-09 |
More than 300 Southwest Ohio
foster and adoptive parents will spend Friday and Saturday attending some of 37
different workshops in an attempt to learn the best ways to care for their
foster and adoptive children. |
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5-13-09 |
A comedic entertainer,
nationally-known speakers, educational workshops and Sunday sermons at more than
two dozen local churches are planned May 29-31 in an effort to raise awareness
around the need for foster care and adoptive parents.
|
|
5-5-09 |
Hamilton County residents thinking
about foster care or adoption can learn more Wednesday in an online chat by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
5-1-09 |
A quiet, respectful pre-teen who
loves reading about African American history is May’s Adoptable Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
|
4-30-09 |
Hamilton
County’s Job and Family Services Department will launch a new recruitment
commercial and Web site to kick off a month’s full of events surrounding
national Foster Care Month. See
social media release
|
|
4-27-09 |
An assistant director in charge of
child support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat Wednesday, April 29. |
|
4-22-09 |
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services has added a "Report Non-Paying Parents" link under Contact Us on
www.hcjfs.org. For several years, the public
has had the capability to report non-paying parents around-the-clock by using
the Child Support link under Contact Us. |
|
4-13-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a April 15 online chat with Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
3-31-09 |
More than 6,400 colorful pinwheels
- each representing a report of child abuse or neglect to Hamilton County’s
241-KIDS hotline - will be planted near the Underground Railroad Freedom Center
today in a dramatic attempt to draw attention to one of the area’s more horrific
problems.
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|
3-30-09 |
The Cincinnati Reds are offering
half-price tickets for the Aug. 29 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in
appreciation of those who pay their child support regularly. |
|
3-30-09 |
Foster care and adoption experts
from the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family will be available at a
number of community events in upcoming weeks to answer questions and share
information.
|
|
3-25-09 |
Hamilton County’s Job and Family
Services Department is changing its hours of operation to better serve the
increasing number of citizens visiting its offices for services.
|
|
3-23-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a March 25 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
3-16-09 |
An assistant director in
charge of child support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and
Family Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a
live online chat Wednesday, March 18. |
|
3-9-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a March 11 online chat with Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
3-3-09 |
The Hamilton County Department of
Job and Family Services is working now to clear a path to make funds available
for distribution in the summer of 2009 and to ensure that those funds are spent
responsibly. |
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3-2-09 |
A 10-year-old girl who loves
school and has a winning smile is March’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services.
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2-20-09 |
Hamilton County residents thinking
about foster care or adoption can learn more Wednesday in an online chat by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.
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2-12-09 |
The director of Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services launched a blog today to help
keep the agency and public connected during tough economic times that are
bringing more working families through the agency’s doors. |
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2-9-09 |
An assistant director in charge of
Child Support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat Wednesday, Feb. 11.
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2-3-09 |
A 17-year-old girl who wants to go
to college and become a doctor is February’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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2-2-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a Feb 4 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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1-26-09 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a Jan. 28 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
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1-22-09 |
Hamilton County is launching a
program today that will provide discount cards to help county residents cope
with the high price of prescription drugs. |
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1-12-09 |
Hamilton County residents with
questions about child abuse and neglect can learn more in an online chat by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. Manager Scott Boone will
answer questions about what constitutes child abuse and neglect, what to do if
you suspect it, what services the county provides in abuse situations, the
county’s 241-KIDS child abuse hotline and much more. One in 12 county children -
17, 000 -- were involved with the Department of Job and Family Services’
Children’s Services Division in 2007 and the county takes more than 6,000
reports of abuse and neglect each year.
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1-6-09 |
A 14-year-old girl who wants to be
a veterinarian is January’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services. |
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1-5-09 |
Hamilton County residents thinking
about foster care or adoption can learn more Wednesday in an online chat by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. |
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12-22-08 |
Amidst a struggling local economy,
the Southwest Ohio Regional Workforce Investment Board will offer job training
and other employment services to 30 percent more local young people over the
next two years.
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12-15-08 |
Hamilton County recently passed
the $1 million mark in child support payments through its innovative lien
program that targets the property of delinquent parents.
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12-2-08 |
A mother who owes nearly $15,000
to her child is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent. |
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12-2-08 |
The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will participate in the Community Benefits and Resource Informational
Session, 2-5 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 6, at Rockdale Baptist Church. |
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12-2-08 |
The Hamilton County Department of
Job and Family Services will eliminate two more senior-level positions on Dec.
31 when Assistant Director Ron Kirkendall and Executive Administrator Carol
Watson leave the agency. |
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12-1-08 |
An assistant director in charge of
Child Support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat Wednesday, Dec. 3.
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12-1-08 |
A 14-year-old boy who likes
reading fantasy books and playing outdoors is December’s Adoptable Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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11-26-08 |
Starting Dec. 1, Hamilton County’s
Job and Family Services Department will offer extended hours on Wednesday
evenings and Saturdays at its downtown location only, 222 E. Central Parkway. |
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11-25-08 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a Nov. 26 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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11-12-08 |
Agency Director Moira Weir
announced the first of a series of layoffs to agency employees today. |
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11-12-08 |
Hamilton County residents thinking
about foster care or adoption can learn more tomorrow in an online chat by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.
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11-10-08 |
Seven children will officially
join permanent, loving families this Friday in Hamilton County’s second annual
mass adoption ceremony to celebrate National Adoption Month. To see a slide show
of photos,
CLICK HERE |
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11-6-08 |
Hamilton County Child Support, a division of the
county's Department of Job and Family Services, showed improvement in all four
major performance categories in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30. |
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11-5-08 |
Mark Eling doesn’t think he deserves an award, but
ProKids thought differently. Eling, the UMUR supervisor in Children’s Services
Care Management at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services,
was recently recognized by the organization with its “Step Up For Children
Award.” |
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11-4-08 |
A father who owes nearly $78,000
to his two children is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat
Parent. |
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11-3-08 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in a Nov. 5 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
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11-3-08 |
A 13-year-old girl who dreams of a
music career is November’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services. |
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10-22-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services wants public input on a plan it is developing to set
agency goals and priorities over the next three years.
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10-20-08 |
An assistant director in charge of
Child Support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat Wednesday, Oct. 22. |
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10-13-08 |
Hamilton County residents with
questions about child abuse and neglect can learn more in an online chat by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.
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10-10-08 |
Hamilton County residents who are
thinking about foster care or adoption can learn more at an Open House hosted by
the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. The Open House will
be held 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, in Room GN009 of 237 William Howard
Taft in Walnut Hills.
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10-10-08 |
The Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services will eliminate one section and
redistribute some of that group's work as the start of a comprehensive
reorganization.
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10-8-08 |
Hamilton County Department of Job
and Family Services has begun informing 2,900 of those who qualified for
windstorm assistance to come to the agency's 237 William H. Taft Road location
next week to get Kroger gift cards. |
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10-2-08 |
Hamilton County Department of Job
and Family Services is processing 35,000-plus applications for storm-related
assistance.
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10-2-08 |
Several members of Hamilton County Department of
Job and Family Services management team gave presentations at the Public
Children's Services Association of Ohio's 22nd Annual Conference in Columbus in
September. |
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10-2-08 |
A science whiz who loves
experiments with lava, oil and electricity is October’s Adoptable Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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10-1-08 |
A father who owes nearly $50,000
to his two children is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat
Parent. Todd A. Davidson, 34, was last known to live on Niagara St. in
Cincinnati.
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9-29-08 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling in today’s tough economy can learn about employment services and
workforce development in an Oct. 1 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
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9-22-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services has stopped accepting applications for emergency assistance for
low-income residents who suffered losses in the Sept. 14 windstorm. The agency
will continue accepting applications through Wednesday for food stamp
replacement for current recipients who lost food during the power outage. Number
so far: more than 7,000 have applied for emergency assistance and more than
12,000 have applied for food stamp replacement.
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9-22-08 |
Hamilton County residents struggling with the high
cost of gas, food, health care and other items can learn more about assistance
available to them in a Sept. 24 online chat with Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services. The chat is an opportunity to ask questions about
public assistance programs. Many who are working but making lower incomes do not
realize they are eligible for a debit card to help pay for food. Also, the
elderly and many low-income children are eligible for health care assistance.
And those in between jobs can receive cash assistance to help them back on their
feet. |
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9-18-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services will offer weekend hours to those who suffered losses in Sunday’s
windstorm and want to apply for emergency assistance.
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9-12-08 |
Dozens of area residents have a better
understanding about the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services
and its programs thanks to nearly 200 appearances by agency speakers in the past
12 months. |
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9-11-08 |
Local Executive Chef Michelle
Brown of Jag's Steak and Seafood has been chosen for the prestigious honor of
representing Cincinnati in New York at the famous James Beard House in the Great
Steak Celebration. She is celebrating this honor by hosting a charity dinner
that will benefit Hamilton County's Everyday Heroes foster parent recruitment
campaign. |
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9-10-08 |
More than 400 people participated
in Hamilton County’s recent amnesty efforts on Child Support, resulting in more
than $33,000 being collected on behalf of the county’s children.
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9-8-08 |
Performance Improvement Section Chief Jim Ashmore
received the first President's Award from the Ohio Job and Family Services
Directors’ Association at its Summer Conference. |
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9-8-08 |
Two community partnerships won state recognition
for the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services and two of its
partners, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and the Hamilton
County Sheriff's Office. |
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9-8-09 |
Medicaid providers or community
partners with billing or coverage questions must use Option 7 to leave a voice
mail when calling the new Change Processing Call Center (513-946-1070). |
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9-8-08 |
Hamilton County residents thinking
about foster care or adoption can learn more in an online chat by the Hamilton
County Department of Job and Family Services.
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9-5-08 |
People interested in becoming foster or adoptive
parents are invited to special event featuring a talk by motivational speaker
and trainer Cedric Riley, a former foster child adopted in 2004 in Hamilton
County. |
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9-3-08 |
An aspiring doctor who enjoys her
studies and wants to travel to New York City is September’s Adoptable Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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9-2-08 |
A father who owes nearly $82,000
to his child is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent.
Perez Rankin, 41, was last known to live on Smith Road in Norwood.
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8-29-08 |
The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services has begun the process of creating a new Strategic Plan to help guide
the agency for the next several years. |
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8-29-08 |
Custodial parents in Hamilton
County who receive their child support payments through e-Quickpay can now
receive electronic notification of payments, reducing the more than dozen calls
a month parents make to determine if payments have been made and their debit
cards can be used. |
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8-27-08 |
The more than 3,000 local
residents who have child support-related warrants issued for their arrest have
two more days to take advantage of a program that grants them amnesty.
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8-26-08 |
The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services has scheduled online chats on a variety of topics in upcoming weeks. Ask questions, share ideas, offer comments
in this easy-to-use forum. |
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8-22-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services is offering amnesty next week to more than 3,000 local
residents who have child support-related warrants issued for their arrest. |
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8-19-08 |
An assistant director in charge of
Child Support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat Aug. 20. |
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8-15-08 |
The Ohio Child Support Guidelines
Advisory Council will host two community forums on Monday, Aug. 18, to discuss
guidelines in the state’s child support program. The events will be held from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Room GN009 of the Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services building, 237 William Howard Taft Road.
All members of the public are invited to attend and hear about, or comment on,
Child Support guidelines.
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8-15-08 |
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will share information about services available to grandparents raising
grandchildren during a resource fair Sept. 7 at the Public Library of Cincinnati
and Hamilton County's downtown location. |
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8-11-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services is teaming with Cincinnati State and other community
partners to target 700 area dropouts for wraparound services that will help them
gain an education and much more. |
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8-11-08 |
Early this fall, most applicants for Medicaid,
food stamps and Ohio Works First (OWF) cash assistance no longer need
to schedule appointments with the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services. Instead, they'll go to 222 E. Central Parkway -- where they will be
served on a first-come, first-served basis. |
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8-8-08 |
Hamilton County residents who are
thinking about foster care or adoption can learn more at an Open House hosted by
the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. The Open House will
be held 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday in Room GN009 of 237 William Howard Taft in
Walnut Hills.
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8-6-08 |
Caregivers, seniors and staff of
social service agencies that work with them will be honored during a
presentation before the Reds-Houston Astros game on Friday evening, Aug. 8, at
Great American Ballpark. |
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8-5-08 |
Chat online about child support, 10-11 a.m.,
Wednesday, Aug. 20, with Jeff Startzman, assistant director in charge of Hamilton
County Child Support. Ask questions, share ideas, offer comments in this
easy-to-use forum. |
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8-5-08 |
A father who owes nearly $20,000
to his child is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent.
James E. Simpson, 28, was last known to live in Irvington, Ky. His last known
occupation was working in landscaping.
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8-4-08 |
The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services and the Cincinnati Reds are teaming up to offer half-price tickets to
Child Support clients for the Saturday, Aug. 30, game with the San Francisco
Giants. |
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7-31-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services will unveil a new Most Wanted poster and host a number
of other activities to celebrate National Child Support Month in August.
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7-30-08 |
An aspiring artist who loves the
music of Tina Turner is August’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services.
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7-25-08 |
Hamilton County residents
struggling with the high cost of gas, food, health care and other items can
learn more about assistance available to them in a July 30 online chat with
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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7-22-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services has closed its Taft location for the day due to a power
outage. Citizens planning to conduct business at that location should reschedule
appointments for another day. The Child Support hotline, 946-SETS, is also down
for the day.The Department apologizes for the inconvenience.
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7-18-08 |
Free lead-testing events will be
held throughout Hamilton County to mark the upcoming Ohio Lead Awareness Week
and draw attention to a problem that plagues the children of this community.
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7-16-08 |
Medicaid, Ohio Direction Card and Ohio Works First
(OWF) clients no longer need to travel downtown to pick up or drop off two
widely-used forms for household and employment verification. |
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7-15-08 |
Chat online about Medicaid, food stamps and cash
assistance, 10-11 a.m., Wednesday, July 30, with Jim Ashmore, Performance
Improvement section chief. Ask questions, share ideas, offer comments in this
easy-to-use forum. |
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7-14-08 |
Hamilton
County residents thinking about foster care or adoption can learn more in an
online chat by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. The
lead recruiter for Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services will
answer questions about certification and licensing, home assessments, training
and other topics that will help you make the decision to become a foster or
adoptive parent.
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7-8-08 |
Social workers, caregivers and
others who assist senior citizens will be honored at the Cincinnati Reds-Houston
Astros game Friday, Aug. 8, at Great American Ball Park. Discounted tickets are
available.
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7-7-08 |
Starting July 14, people
interested in foster care and adoption can get information at a monthly Open
House, 6-7:30 p.m., at 237 William H. Taft Road. |
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7-7-08 |
Citizens can comment online or at a public meeting
on guidelines that help determine the size of child support payments. State law
requires a review of the guidelines every four years to ensure they adequately
provide for the needs of children involved in child support cases. |
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7-7-08 |
An assistant director in charge of
Child Support enforcement at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live
online chat July 9. |
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7-3-08 |
An independent-thinking 11-year-old girl who loves
attention is July’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s Department of Job and
Family Services. |
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7-1-08 |
A father who owes more than
$65,000 to his seven children is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted
Deadbeat Parent.
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6-17-08 |
Mark your calendar now for two online chats in
July: (1) 10-11 a.m., Wednesday, July 9, about Child Support with Assistant
Director Jeff Startzman, and (2) 2-3 p.m., Tuesday, July 15, about
Foster Care and Adoption with John Cummings, recruitment manager. |
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6-16-08 |
More than 50 teens in Hamilton
County’s foster care system will bid farewell to high school and hello to their
futures at this year’s "Celebration of Dreams" event.
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6-13-08 |
Kevin Holt, Workforce Development
section chief, will appear on Channel 12's Newsmakers at 11 a.m. Sunday,
June 15, to discuss the
Super Jobs Center and its success with job placements. |
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6-10-08 |
A new service will save clients of
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services time, money and gas
consumption by allowing them to drop off required paperwork at any of the 41
libraries operated by The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
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6-6-08 |
A father who owes more than $30,000 to his two
children is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent. |
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6-5-08 |
Nearly 4,000 workers were placed
in new jobs in 2007 by the Super Jobs Center, Hamilton County’s one-stop job
center, according to figures recently released by the Ohio Department of Jobs
and Family Services (ODJFS). This figure represents 1,997 more placements than
Ohio’s second highest producing one-stop job center, The Source in Lucas County. |
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6-3-08 |
Child Support customers now can report a change of
name, address or employment online. Simply click on the
Report a Change link on the www.hcjfs.org
home page. |
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6-3-08 |
An energetic 14-year-old boy who
wants to be a professional football player is June’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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6-2-08 |
John Cummings, Hamilton County Children's Services
adoption and foster care recruitment manager, will answer questions and listen
to concerns and ideas during a live online chat, 2-3 p.m., Thursday, June 12. |
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5-28-08 |
Dozens of volunteers will rally
Friday morning and then spread out through Hamilton County’s neighborhoods
hanging posters and passing out fliers in an attempt to generate interest in
foster parenting.
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5-23-08 |
Foster parents will be honored at
Tuesday’s Cincinnati Reds game for opening their homes and hearts to Hamilton
County’s abused and neglected children. The Reds have offered discounted tickets
to foster families and one family will be invited on to the field prior to the
game to yell "Play Ball!" and start the action against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Foster Family Night will feature other ballpark activities and a stadium booth
where fans can learn more about foster parenting. |
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5-21-08 |
Foster and adoptive parent recruiters from
Hamilton County Children's Services will share information at a number of community
locations in the next several weeks. |
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5-20-08 |
Employees at Fifth Third Bank
headquarters will find out more about foster parenting during two
Everyday Heroes
Lunch and Learn sessions in June. |
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5-15-08 |
More than 200 Southwest Ohio
foster and adoptive parents will spend Friday and Saturday attending workshops
such as “Look Out! There’s a Teenager in Our House” and “Parenting the Sexually
Abused Children” in an attempt to learn the best ways to care for their foster
and adoptive children.
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5-14-08 |
Get a quick tip designed to enhance your
experience with the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services by
listening to the agency's weekly podcast. |
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5-13-08 |
Foster
and adoptive parents who selflessly dedicate their lives to helping children
will be honored with butterflies, a drum line performance and recognition from
local dignitaries on Wednesday, May 14. |
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5-13-08 |
More than a hundred abused and neglected children
will get a chance to attend a picturesque summer camp north of Cincinnati with
programs designed especially for them. The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services once again has
contracted with Camp Joy
in Clarksville to provide five programs for children ages 7-16. |
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5-12-08 |
The Hamilton County Department
of Job and Family Services will team with the Cincinnati Reds to salute foster
parents during Foster Family Night on Tuesday, May 27. Information also will be
available at Great American Ball Park for those interested in becoming foster
parents. |
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5-12-08 |
Volunteers are needed to help
spread the word about foster parenting during the first Grassroots Canvassing
Blitz the morning of Friday, May 30. To participate, please call 946-2137 or
e-mail info@fosterhero.com. |
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5-9-08 |
John Cummings, manager of the Hamilton County
Children's Services Adoption and Foster Care Recruitment Unit, will appear on
the Life is Meant to be Good radio program on Sunday, May 25. |
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5-8-08 |
Jeffrey Startzman, the Hamilton County Department
of Job and Family Services assistant director in charge of Child Support, will
answer questions and listen to concerns and ideas during a live online chat,
1:30-2:30 p.m., Thursday, May 29. |
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5-7-08 |
The Hamilton County Department
of Job and Family Services today completed a major upgrade of its Web site (www.hcjfs.org).
The refurbished site includes online forms where agency customers can ask
questions about their cases -- and submit address, income, household size and
other changes. |
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5-7-08 |
A father who owes more than
$69,000 to his five children is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted
Deadbeat Parent. Ricky Moore, 51, was last known to reside on Cambridge
Avenue in Cincinnati. His last known occupation was working in dry cleaning.
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5-6-08 |
A 16-year-old boy who likes to
make people laugh and enjoys playing football is May’s Adoptable Children at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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5-5-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of
Job and Family Services has launched Ohio’s State Automated Child Welfare
Information System (SACWIS), a comprehensive, state-of-the-art system designed
to improve management of child welfare cases. |
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4-30-08 |
Hamilton
County residents itching to get their hands on tax rebates may be very
disappointed if they owe delinquent child support. Economic Stimulus rebates,
which begin mailing next week, will be intercepted to help needy children if
they are destined to a parent who has not met their child support obligation.
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4-29-08 |
Hamilton County has teamed up
with the FreestoreFoodbank to target some of the 30,000 uninsured county elderly
residents, families and children who are eligible for Medicaid coverage but have
not yet sought help.
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4-21-08 |
Hamilton County residents who
wonder whether foster parenting is right for them can get answers and
information at a foster care event on Saturday, May 3, at Great Commission Bible
Church. |
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4-14-08 |
Hamilton County residents who
are thinking about foster care or adoption can learn more over a cup of coffee
Thursday afternoon at the College Hill Coffee Co. and Casual Gourmet.
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4-4-08 |
Teen sisters who like to swim
are April’s Adoptable Children at Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services.Hamilton County is spotlighting some of the children it has available
for adoption with monthly releases to local media.
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4-1-08 |
A father who owes more than
$32,000 to his child is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat
Parent. Robert Gross Jr., 37, was last known to reside in Newport, Ky.
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3-31-08 |
More than 6,100 colorful
pinwheels – each representing a report of child abuse or neglect to Hamilton
County’s 241-KIDS hotline – will be planted near the Underground Railroad
Freedom Center on Wednesday in a dramatic attempt to draw attention to one of
the area’s more horrific problems.
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3-20-08 |
It’s easier for agency
customers to ask questions about their cases online. We have added
easy-to-complete forms under Contact Us on the agency Web site,
www.hcjfs.org. |
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3-18-08 |
Moira Weir, director of the Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services, this month updated the community about
the Everyday Heroes foster parent campaign on radio talk show host Lincoln
Ware's Sunday morning TV program and WCET's Webcast. |
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3-12-08 |
Hamilton County Commissioners approved a measure
today to transfer the Tuberculosis Control Center from the Department of Job and
Family Services to the General Health District on May 1. |
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3-11-08 |
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services will host a forum March 19 to provide information to grandparents who
are raising their grandchildren. Approximately 4.5 million children in the
United States live in grandparent-headed households. Ohio has about 150,000
children living with their grandparents.
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3-6-08 |
A 15-year-old boy who plays
sports and would someday like to visit Tokyo is March’s Adoptable Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services. Hamilton County is
spotlighting some of the children it has available for adoption with monthly
releases to local media.
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3-4-08 |
A father
who owes more than $72,000 to his three children is Hamilton County’s latest
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent. Lamont Williams, 38, was last known to
reside on Cedar Breaks Court in Fairfield. His last known occupation was fast
food.
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3-3-08 |
Learn about services available for grandparents
who raise grandchildren in a special forum Wednesday, March 19, at the Sycamore
Senior Center, 4455 Carver Woods Drive, Blue Ash. |
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3-3-08 |
Recruiters from Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services are visiting local libraries to
help answer the public’s questions about foster care and adoption.
|
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2-29-08 |
Several Cincinnati
organizations have come together to kick-start what is believed to be the first
program in the country of its kind focusing on helping foster children stay in
school and achieve academic success.
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2-8-08 |
An independent review by a county ombudsman found
there was no proof to allegations made in a Jan. 30 Cincinnati Enquirer
story that the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services mishandled
a Children’s Services case involving a mother of three. |
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2-5-08 |
A father
who owes more than $67,000 to his two children is Hamilton County’s latest
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent.
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2-5-08 |
A 15-year-old boy who is
teaching himself how to play guitar is February’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services. |
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1-30-08 |
A collaborative of public and
private organizations has kicked off what they hope will be a $1 million
recruitment campaign to increase the number of foster parents for abused and
neglected children in Hamilton County and the Greater Cincinnati region.
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1-25-08 |
Hamilton County's Pinwheels for Prevention child
abuse awareness event won the Best award in the Public Service/Tactic category
at last night's 2007 Blacksmith Awards presented by the
Cincinnati Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
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1-18-08 |
The Woman’s City Club will
host a Jan. 22 forum featuring a panel of experts from Hamilton County’s
Department of Job and Family Services discussing the county’s child protection
system.
|
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1-17-08 |
The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services will open an outreach office at the Council on Aging of Southwestern
Ohio in Tri-County on Feb. 1.
|
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1-3-08 |
A 13-year-old girl who plays
basketball and wants to be a cosmetologist is January’s Adoptable Child at
Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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|
1-2-08 |
A father
who owes more than $98,000 to his four children is Hamilton County’s latest
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent. Eugene Childs, 46, was last known to reside
on Brookhaven Road.
|
|
1-2-08 |
Starting in February, HCJFS Pregnancy Services
will present Tips for Moms -- a series of monthly workshops for
Medicaid-eligible pregnant women aimed at preventing premature and low-weight
births. Tips for Moms will take place 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in a second-floor
conference room at 237 William H. Taft Road. |
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|
2007 |
|
12-17-07 |
Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services set a new record for adoptions today when three
children were adopted by a Cleveland-area couple, bringing the number of county
adoptions to 127 in 2007.
|
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12-3-07 |
A 15-year-old girl who likes
attending church, playing basketball, going to the mall and listening to music
is December’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton County’s Department of Job and Family
Services. Hamilton County is spotlighting some of the children it has available
for adoption with monthly releases to local media.
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|
11-15-07 |
Five families will finalize
the adoption of eight children before Hamilton County Probate Court Judge James
C. Cissell Saturday in a Mass Adoption event planned to celebrate National
Adoption Day. |
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11-14-07 |
Hamilton
County Recorder Rebecca Prem Groppe recently received the Partner of the Year
Award from the Ohio Child Support Enforcement Agency Director’s Association for
partnering with the county’s Department of Job and Family Services in an
innovative effort to collect child support.
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11-7-07 |
A father
who owes more than $108,000 to his five children is Hamilton County’s latest
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent.
|
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11-1-07 |
With great enthusiasm and a sense of
determination, the first of more than 100 caseworkers employed as a result the
Children's Services Hiring Fair started their new jobs today.
(Listen to their comments in this
podcast.) |
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10-31-07 |
Hamilton County’s adoptive
and foster families will attend an exclusive private showing of the movie
MARTIAN CHILD tomorrow night to kick off the celebration of National Adoption
Month. |
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10-23-07 |
Hamilton County Commissioners voted unanimously
yesterday during their weekly staff meeting to permanently appoint Director
Moira Weir to her position, following up on a decision they made in June. A
formal resolution will be passed during Wednesday’s regular Commission meeting.
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|
10-16-07 |
More than 400 Hamilton County
at-risk youth per year will have access to unique, family empowering services
that help them avoid institutional care now that Hamilton County Commissioners
have approved a two-year, $24 million contract between the Hamilton County Multi
County System Agencies (MCSA) and Hamilton Choices, LLC.
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10-4-07 |
A 6-year-old girl who loves
art class and listening to music is October’s Adoptable Child at Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services.
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10-3-07 |
A
father who owes more than $49,000 to his two children is Hamilton County’s
latest monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent.
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10-1-07 |
Hamilton County Children's Services, a division of
the county's Department of Job and Family Services, took a big step toward
adding vital resources to help kids on Saturday, Sept. 29. The agency's first
Children's Services
Hiring Fair went a long way toward addressing a child protection caseworker
shortage. |
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9-19-07 |
Hamilton
County’s Child Support Enforcement Agency will receive two state awards tomorrow
for its innovative efforts to ensure children receive child support.
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9-18-07 |
Former Cincinnati Bengal
James Francis – who owes more than $900,000 in child support to two
of his children – has a court date set for tomorrow on a charge of nonsupport of
dependants.
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9-17-07 |
Hamilton
County’s Department of Job and Family Services will host an upcoming hiring fair
designed to attract recruits to join its Children’s Services division, giving
the agency more resources to protect children. The department wants to hire 80
additional workers and plans to make on-the-spot offers at the fair, with an
anticipated start date of mid-October.
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9-12-07 |
Nearly
300 people took advantage of Hamilton County’s offer to get their driver’s
license reinstated in turn for re-establishing child support payments, allowing
the county’s Child Support Enforcement Agency to collect nearly $88,000 in
delinquent child support.
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9-5-07 |
A father
who owes more than $61,000 to his five children is Hamilton County’s latest
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent.
|
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9-5-07 |
Darrick Candler, who appeared on the the Hamilton County Child Support Most
Wanted poster for August, turned himself in to the Hamilton County Sheriff's
Office late in the month. |
|
9-4-07 |
Hamilton County’s Department
of Job and Family Services will begin spotlighting some of the children it has
available for adoption with monthly releases to local media.
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8-29-07 |
Hamilton
County parents who have warrants issued for their arrest because they failed to
appear in Juvenile Court for child support hearings have two more days to take
advantage of a special amnesty program that would wipe out their warrants.
|
|
8-23-07 |
To mark the final week of
Child Support Awareness Month, Hamilton County’s Juvenile Court, in conjunction
with the Child Support Enforcement Agency, is offering amnesty to parents who
currently have warrants issued for their arrest because they failed to appear in
Juvenile Court for their child support hearings.
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|
8-20-07 |
Open houses for individuals interested in learning
more about becoming an adoptive and/or foster parent are being planned for the
next few months. If you know someone who is interested, please tell them about
the informative sessions. Please help spread the word. |
|
8-17-07 |
Hamilton County’s Child Support Enforcement Agency
has helped 45 local residents get their driver’s licenses reinstated after the
parents stepped forward and made a commitment to pay their delinquent child
support. In the process, the county has collected more than $8,200 in overdue
support. There is hope that amount will grow in the next two weeks as the agency
continues its driver’s license amnesty program, which is being offered
throughout the month of August, Child Support Awareness Month. |
|
8-9-07 |
Agency Director Moira Weir today announced the
selection of Section Chief Aiesha Walker as interim assistant director in charge
of Children's Services, effective today (Aug. 9). |
|
8-8-07 |
Seven men
and one woman who owe more than $589,000 to 24 children are depicted on the
latest Most Wanted poster issued by the Hamilton County Department of Job and
Family Services. |
|
8-3-07 |
A father
who owes more than $94,000 to his five children is Hamilton County’s latest
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent. Darrick Candler, 36, was last known to be
working in temporary services, and his last known address was McMicken Avenue in Cincinnati.
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|
8-1-07 |
Hamilton
County’s Child Support Enforcement Agency is willing to play Let’s Make a Deal
next month with parents who have an outstanding history of not paying child
support.
|
|
7-25-07 |
A review of 3,057 Hamilton County Children’s
Services cases found more than 97 percent had a home visit by a department
caseworker within the past 45 days. The review also found no case-management
concerns in cases where children had been recent victims of serious physical
harm, as was found by a local judge in the case that sparked the review. |
|
7-20-07 |
Hamilton
County and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services officials are working
together in hopes of coming to an amicable conclusion to the special audit of
the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services issued by the Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services last September.
|
|
7-13-07 |
Tuberculosis screening on 143
residents and employees of a Mount Adams residential building and accompanying
restaurant has revealed nine positive skin tests, which indicate a latent form
of the disease that is not transmissible.
|
|
7-11-07 |
About 13,000 people who have had driver's licenses
suspended for non-payment of child support can get them reinstated much easier
in August. Hamilton County Child Support will join several other metro counties
in offering amnesty, a part of the state's Child Support Awareness Month
activities. |
|
7-3-07 |
A father
who owes more than $81,000 to his five children is Hamilton County’s latest
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent. |
|
6-18-07 |
Starting in August, HCJFS Pregnancy Services once
again will present Tips for Moms -- a series of monthly
workshops for Medicaid-eligible pregnant women aimed at preventing premature and
low-weight births. Tips for Moms will take place 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the TB
Control Conference room at 237 Taft. |
|
6-13-07 |
Hamilton County Commissioners have chosen Moira
Weir as the new leader of the county’s Department of Job and Family Services,
overseeing child welfare, child support and public assistance programs that
touch hundreds of thousands of Hamilton County residents each year. |
|
6-4-07 |
A father who owes more than
$40,000 to his three children is Hamilton County’s latest monthly Most Wanted
Deadbeat Parent. |
|
5-23-07 |
Hamilton County foster teens
who soon face life on their own will have the opportunity to receive job
assistance through Next Step Network, an innovative new collaborative
established by members of Leadership Cincinnati Class XXX, Cincinnati Works and
several public and private child welfare organizations. |
|
5-18-07 |
By June 6, all Hamilton County Department of Job
and Family Services Child Care staff will be located at 222 E. Central Parkway
(4th floor- East). Moves begin on May 22. There will no longer be Child Care
staff at 237 Taft. |
|
5-18-07 |
Channel 12's coverage of foster care Wednesday
helped attract 200 calls from people interested in fostering or adopting--and
more than 3,000 visits to stories about it on the station's Web site. |
|
5-11-07 |
A father
who owes more than $50,000 to his two children is Hamilton County’s first
monthly Most Wanted Deadbeat Parent.Darren Hudgins, 39, owes $52,180 in
delinquent child support. Hudgins’ previous occupation was a construction
worker, and his last known address was Endor Court in Cincinnati. He is the
first parent to be depicted in Hamilton County’s Child Support Enforcement
Agency’s new monthly Most Wanted posters. |
|
5-9-07 |
Parents
who owe child support could be barred from driving to Niagara Falls or cruising
to an island paradise until they pay up if they are targeted under the county’s
Passport Denial Program. In addition, changes in the program will increase the
number of parents who can have their passports denied and the amount of time it
will take to get the denied passport reinstated. |
|
5-4-07 |
Seven
active cases of tuberculosis have been reported since January among people
connected to the Drop Inn Center homeless shelter and Hamilton County
Tuberculosis Control wants everyone who spent at least four hours there between
Oct. 12 and Feb. 7 to be screened for the disease. |
|
4-19-07 |
Seven men
and one woman who owe a combined $563,200 to 24 children are depicted on the
latest Most Wanted poster issued by the Hamilton County Department of Job and
Family Services. This is the second poster issued this year – the first time the
county has ever issued two posters in one year. All eight depicted on this
year’s earlier poster were rounded up within five months of the poster’s August
release. |
|
3-23-07 |
More than 5,600 colorful
pinwheels – each representing a report of child abuse or neglect to Hamilton
County’s 241-KIDS hotline – will be planted near the Underground Railroad
Freedom Center March 29 in a dramatic attempt by community leaders to draw
attention to one of the area’s more horrific problems. |
|
3-15-07 |
HCJFS has taken to the airwaves to encourage
people to adopt older kids.
Thirty-second commercials will continue to air on Fox 19, My64 and Time
Warner Cable (BET, MSN, CNN) through June. |
|
3-6-07 |
Hamilton County Job and Family Service will
accelerate a plan that does regular background checks of foster parents. |
|
3-5-07 |
One of Child Support’s best practices is truly
among the best -- in the nation. The Arrears Management Strategy will appear in
the federal Office of Child Support Best Practices Compendium, a collection of
strategies available to all states to learn about successful child support
programs and organizational practices. |
|
2-9-07 |
Hamilton County's Department of Job and Family
Services will host a two-part Civic Engagement meeting to promote conversation
about the agency and its partners and stakeholders. The meeting will be held in
conjunction with A Small Group, an organization dedicated to starting dialogue
that encourages Cincinnati citizens to promote change and make the community a
better place to live. |
|
1-23-07 |
Rick Roberts, director of Hamilton County's
Department of Job and Family Services, announced his retirement effective June
30. |
|
1-4-07 |
All eight of the people depicted on a Hamilton
County Most Wanted poster for failing to pay child support have been rounded up
within five months of the poster’s August release. |
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|
2006 |
|
12-14-06 |
Eighty-two Hamilton County parents who owed nearly
$1.5 million in child support to 136 area children were recently arrested as
Hamilton County participated in the annual Statewide Sheriff’s Roundup to arrest
parents who do not make their court-ordered child support payments. |
|
11-29-06 |
A Hamilton County Children’s Services worker who
supervises a unit handling severe physical abuse and neglect cases has won an
award honoring those who help victims of violent crime. |
|
11-20-06 |
Seven of the eight people
depicted on a Most Wanted poster for failing to pay child support have been
rounded up within four months of the poster’s release. |
|
11-1-06 |
November is National Adoption Month, a time set
aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children from foster care. This
year’s theme of adopting teens from foster care builds on the Ad Council’s new
public service announcement (PSA) campaign of the Children’s Bureau, the
Adoption Exchange Association, and The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids. |
|
10-25-06 |
The Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services (HCJFS) will host 300 foster and adoptive parents and kids at the
Cincinnati Zoo on Nov. 18 as part of National Adoption Day festivities. |
|
9-11-06 |
Hamilton County Children's Services has taken
several actions in the wake of the tragic death of Marcus Fiesel, a foster child
in the care of Butler County Children Services. He had been placed with a foster
family with Lifeway for Youth,
a private agency. Hamilton County has about 150 children in Lifeway foster
homes. |
|
9-1-06 |
Child
Support Amnesty Week (Aug. 21-25) was a huge success. The first-time event
attracted 218 participants, who paid more than $34,000 and – most importantly –
got reconnected to the system by establishing wage withholding or giving current
contact information. |
|
8-24-06 |
More than 130 people with Juvenile Court warrants
for failure to appear for Child Support hearings have already participated in
Amnesty Week. Encourage others with warrants to get a fresh start by coming to
800 Broadway (6th Floor) between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Amnesty Week continues
through Friday. |
|
8-7-06 |
About
2,300 Hamilton
County area parents with warrants for their arrest for non-payment of child
support will have a chance to possibly avoid jail. This opportunity comes during
Amnesty Week, Aug. 21-25, at
800 Broadway St., downtown Cincinnati. The first-time offering
will provide money for children as the school year begins.
|
|
7-27-06 |
Executive Administrator/Public Relations Carol
Watson today announced the hiring of Brian Gregg as media
spokesperson/communications manager. He starts Aug. 10. |
|
7-25-06 |
Hamilton
County Child Support, a division of the county’s Department of Job and Family
Services, has produced a new Most Wanted poster as part of its efforts to
collect unpaid child support. The poster shows six men and two women who owe an
average of $50,000 in back support.
|
|
7-20-06 |
Get the word out to Medicaid-eligible pregnant women. Starting in September,
HCJFS Pregnancy Services will present a new series of monthly workshops aimed at
preventing premature and low-weight births. |
|
7-19-06 |
Hamilton County Child Support,
a division of the county’s Department of Job and Family Services, has produced a
new
Most Wanted poster as part of its efforts to collect unpaid child support.
The poster shows six men and two women who owe an average of $50,000 in back
support. |
|
7-14-06 |
Home child care providers certified by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services (HCJFS) will learn about
social and emotional development of children from top child development experts
at an August event. They will learn how to identify developmental issues and get
practical ideas to help address those needs. |
|
6-15-06 |
More than 40 teens in Hamilton County’s foster care system bid farewell to high
school and hello to their futures at this year’s “A Celebration of Dreams.”
The eighth annual event
was held June 15 at the Montgomery Inn Banquet Center and organized by the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services and the Foster Child
Enrichment Council.
|
|
6-14-06 |
As Father's Day approaches, you may hear a new
public service announcement on an Ohio radio station thanking dads for paying
child support. The PSA's, produced by the state Office of Child Support, have
been supplied to stations throughout the state.
|
|
6-14-06 |
HCJFS Pregnancy Services is planning a summer
workshop for Medicaid-eligible pregnant women, noon-2:30 p.m., July 19, in the
TB Control Conference room at 237 Taft. The workshop -- organized by Pregnancy
Services interns -- includes a presentation by former HCJFS staffer Jill
Richardson (now at Good Samaritan Hospital) about Child Developmental Stages,
Birth to Six Months. It also features a session on fitness and health tips.
|
|
6-2-06 |
Youth from low-income families in Hamilton County
who haven’t been able to find and keep jobs because they lack transportation
will soon get some much-needed help. |
|
5-1-06 |
Learn more about health care for the uninsured
during Cover the Uninsured Week, May 1-7. Hamilton County Job & Family Services
is one of the sponsors of our county's participation in this national event.
|
|
4-20-06 |
Project managers Tom Schutte of
Information Systems and Loretta Workman of Workforce Development
have been named Hamilton County Employees of the Year for 2006. |
|
4-20-06 |
About 30,000 Hamilton County Child
Support customers have begun receiving payments electronically
instead of by a paper check. They recently joined about 35,000
clients who already had been getting payments through bank direct
deposit or the e-QuickPay Debit MasterCard. |
|
3-28-06 |
Imagine the sight of
more than 5,500 pinwheels on a grassy lot—all lined up
in neat rows, spinning in the breeze. Then, think about the fact
that each represents a reported case of child abuse or neglect
in Hamilton County in a year. Children’s Hospital, Hamilton County
Job and Family Services and several other organizations plan to
bring that image – and reality -- to Hamilton County this spring.
|
|
3-20-06 |
After a year-long
review, the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services
has been recognized for adhering to the highest standards for
quality of services and management. The agency received notice that
it has been reaccredited by the Council on Accreditation, one of the
world’s leading advocates for high-quality social and behavioral
health care services.
|
|
3-2-06 |
Starting March 27, Ohio food stamp
customers will get their monthly benefits with an Electronic Balance
Transfer (or debit) system. |
|
1-24-06 |
The agency’s food stamp program has
attracted the attention of regional and state experts. USDA
Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) staff from the Midwest region’s
offices in Chicago will visit HCJFS the afternoon of Thursday, Jan.
26, to check out our operations. Ohio Department of Job and Family
Services (ODJFS) staff also will participate. |
|
1-24-06 |
Get the word out to Medicaid-eligible
pregnant women. Starting in February, HCJFS Pregnancy Services will
present a series of monthly workshops aimed at preventing premature
and low-weight births. |
|
1-5-06 |
Their work helps provide basic
support for thousands of children, families, pregnant women, elderly and
disabled persons in Hamilton County. In January, we recognize the important role
that Family and Adult Assistance (FAA) workers at the Hamilton County Department
of Job and Family Services play in our community. |
|
1-4-06 |
Sue Moore, an
investigator for cases of child sexual and physical abuse, is the
winner of an award honoring people who help victims of violent
crime. Ms. Moore received a “Hope in Heels” award from the Hope in
Heels Foundation, which was started in 2005 by Lora Besse and her
family. Ms. Besse is a victim’s advocate for the Hamilton
County Prosecutor’s Office. The award recognizes those who use
outstanding sensitivity, determination, collaboration and skill in
their work with crime victims.
|
|
|
2005 |
|
12-7-05 |
Agency Director Rick Roberts today
issued this statement to agency employees regarding the tragic
abduction of one of our staff... |
|
12-7-05 |
An estimated 1,000
lower-income families in Hamilton County will qualify for a new
program that provides extra help with heating bills this winter.
Each family could get up to $1,000 to pay bills that
are higher than the family’s budget billing amount for the winter
heating season. |
|
11-15-05 |
Ashton Allen, a child support team leader for the Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services, has been named president of
the Ohio Family Support Association (OFSA).
|
|
11-15-05 |
Abuse, neglect,
self-neglect and exploitation of the elderly is a hidden problem
that is expected to grow as the population ages. It’s important for
people to know to prevent and respond to elder abuse and neglect. As
part of an Elder Abuse awareness campaign, billboards will be up at
these locations.
|
|
11-7-05 |
More than 200
Hamilton County foster children are waiting to be adopted. They are
not the babies you normally think of when you think about adoption.
They are school-aged children. Some are teenagers. Some have been
waiting for a permanent home – a “forever family” – for a long time.
Each November during National Adoption Awareness Month, we give
special attention to this need. We also honor the hundreds of
adoptive and foster parents who have opened their hearts and homes
to waiting children.
|
|
10-5-05 |
Hamilton County
Sheriff’s deputies arrested 28 people Tuesday as part of the Annual
Statewide Sheriff’s Round Up of parents who are not supporting their
children. Those arrested had warrants for failing to appear in
Juvenile or Domestic Relations courts on charges that they are not
paying their ordered child support. They are the parents of 50
children and collectively owe $630,885.58 in child support. The 28
arrests cleared 46 warrants because some of those caught had
warrants for multiple child support cases and other offenses.
|
|
9-22-05 |
Two new assistant
directors will lead the Child Support and Client Services divisions
of the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services (HCJFS)
beginning next month. |
|
9-16-05 |
Michael Smith, who
spent most of his teenage years in foster care, has won a
scholarship to help him complete his studies at the University of
Michigan.
|
|
8-3-05 |
The faces of some
of Hamilton County’s most elusive child support scofflaws will soon
appear on “Most Wanted” posters. The county’s Child Support Services
division plans to launch the poster in September. Planning for the
poster is among the local activities for national Child Support
Awareness Month, which is observed in August. Child Support Services
is a division of the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services (HCJFS).
|
|
8-2-05 |
The way parents
receive child support is changing. Beginning in early 2006, paper
checks will be out. Instead, child support customers will be
required to use either direct bank deposit or a new debit card.
|
|
7-13-05 |
Commissioners today named Rick Roberts the new director
for Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. Roberts
takes over for Suzanne Burke, who left the position last month.
|
|
7-8-05 |
Interim Hamilton
County Administrator Suzanne Burke is recommending that Rick Roberts
be selected to replace her as Director of the Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services.
|
|
7-1-05 |
Hamilton County’s Spanish-speaking
residents who need information about Medicaid, cash assistance,
child care and other social services can now find it at the click of
a computer mouse.
The Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services partnered with the
International Family Resource Center to translate information into
Spanish. The new fact sheets are accessible on
www.hcjfs.org by clicking on the button "En Espanol."
|
|
6-30-05 |
Suzanne Burke,
director of the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services, responded today to the release of a Hamilton County
Sheriff’s report concerning a child abuse investigation. At Burke’s
request, Sheriff Simon Leis ordered an investigation into Cincinnati
Police procedures related to the domestic violence charge filed
against Cincinnati City Councilman Sam Malone on May 13..
|
|
6-13-05 |
Hamilton County Department of Job and
Family Services will conduct a free workshop for attorneys, court
officials, employers and others who play vital roles in the child
support system 3-6 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 222 E. Central
Parkway, downtown. |
|
6-2-05 |
Spanish fact sheets about Hamilton
County Department of Job and Family Services programs are just a few
clicks away. |
|
5-21-05 |
A new brochure has been created to
provide do's and don'ts on safe sleeping for babies. This was
produced by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services, Juvenile Court, and the Hamilton County Family and
Children First Council.
|
|
5-19-05 |
You can help us bring in money that
provides children with the opportunity for a better life. Visit the
Hamilton County Child Support arrest warrants Web site to see if you
know the whereabouts of any of the parents with warrants for
non-payment of child support. |
|
5-4-05 |
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph
Deters announced today that the county has been granted temporary
custody of a baby girl who was dropped off at Mercy Franciscan
Hospital Monday, May 2 under the “Safe Haven for Newborns” Program.
|
|
4-19-05 |
John Young has announced his resignation
as welfare reform executive for Hamilton County Job and Family
Services. Young will become the president and chief executive
officer of the FreeStore/FoodBank. He will start his new position
May 9. |
|
4-18-05 |
Two Hamilton County
social workers will speak to a national child abuse conference about
their experiences leading a Girl Scout troop made up of girls in
foster care. |
|
4-4-05 |
Interim Hamilton County Administrator
and Department of Job and Family Services Director Suzanne Burke
will become CEO of the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio later
this spring. |
|
3-24-05 |
We all have a role
to play to help prevent child abuse and neglect.
Organizations across the country will drive home that point in
April—the 22nd anniversary of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention
Month. |
|
1-6-05 |
For a short period
of time, government money will be available to help low-income
families, elderly, and disabled people with home repairs and other
expenses connected with the Dec. 22-23 snow and ice storm.
|
|
1-5-05 |
Abuse, neglect,
self-neglect and exploitation of the elderly is a largely hidden
problem that is expected to grow as the nation’s population ages.
With that growth comes an increasing need for people to be aware of
community resources aimed at preventing and responding to elder
abuse. In Hamilton County, the place to start is 421-LIFE
(421-5433), the county’s 24-hour telephone line for reporting abuse
and neglect of the elderly. When it began in 1990, 421-LIFE was one
of the country’s first centralized elder abuse reporting lines. This
month, 421-LIFE celebrates its 15th anniversary.
|
|
|
2004 |
|
12-28-04 |
Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services Director Suzanne Burke has
been named treasurer of the Public Children Services Association of
Ohio (PCSAO) Board of Trustees for 2005. |
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12-16-04 |
Hamilton County
Children’s Services caseworkers are making their lists and preparing
to choose from thousands of toys and gifts that have been donated
for victims of child abuse and neglect. Conference rooms at the
agency’s downtown and Walnut Hills locations are stuffed with
thousands of gifts given by more than 100 local businesses,
government organizations, schools, churches, and individuals, Over
the next few days, caseworkers will cruise through the rooms on a
mission to make the holidays happier for struggling families.
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12-10-04 |
Today the Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services and the state auditor
announced plans to conduct a special audit of the Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services. An earlier audit of HCJFS
raised questions about accounting practices that involved charging
foster care expenses to federal programs. Some of these
questions relate to practices in place since the 1990s.
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10-5-04 |
Hamilton County
foster parents will gather Thursday evening for a forum sponsored by
the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. This is
the first time the agency has held such a forum for foster parents
and is part of an effort to improve services to them.
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9-1-04 |
A forum for child
care providers and a massive home visiting effort for all children
in foster care today received awards from the National Association
of Counties (NACo) and the National Association of County
Information Officers (NACIO).
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8-13-04 |
Beginning this month, Hamilton County
child support recipients have the option of getting their payments
via debit cards instead of direct deposit or a check in the mail.
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8-5-04 |
A new push to collect child support by
suspending drivers’ licenses has brought in more than $1.4 million
to help Hamilton County children.
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6-25-04 |
Forty-six young men and women from the
foster care system who completed high school were honored during the
sixth-annual Celebration of Dreams June 17 at the Montgomery Inn
Banquet Center.
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6-25-04 |
HCJFS has won a National Association of
Counties (NACo) Achievement Award for the Children’s Services
Quality Assurance Audit Project (CSQAAP) -- a point-in-time safety
check and data update of all children in county custody.
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6-18-04 |
With a goal of improving services to
Children’s Services kids in residential facilities, leaders of
several public systems kicked off a strategic planning process June
15 at the Summit on Residential Services Continuum.
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6-11-04 |
Hamilton County Job & Family Services
will receive two regional awards at this year’s Big Ten Food Stamp
Improvement Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 11-13. The Big
Ten is a joint federal, state and local effort aimed an improving
food stamp accuracy and customer service in the Midwest. It includes
counties that issue about $10 million per year in food stamp
benefits. |
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6-11-04 |
HCJFS has joined six community partners
in an effort to address the unmet mental health and substance abuse
needs of adolescents in the county juvenile justice
system—especially at the 2020 Auburn Avenue Youth Center.
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5-4-04 |
An event for county-certified child care
providers by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services won honors in 2004 NACIO Awards of Excellence Competition.
NACIO is the National Association of County Information Officers. |
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5-3-04 |
A center at Children’s Hospital that
houses the HCJFS Children’s Services Sex Abuse Investigations Team
got a top honor on April 21. The Mayerson Center for Safe and
Healthy Children received the Hamilton County National Crime
Victims’ Rights Week’s "Commitment to Crime Victims" award. |
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4-23-04 |
HCJFS Welfare Reform Executive John
Young this month joined the agency’s Executive Team. Young assumes
responsibility for community affairs, with an emphasis on
relationships with key social service providers.
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4-15-04 |
Dora the Explorer and her loveable
sidekick, Boots, will celebrate National Foster Care Month from 11
a.m. – 2 p.m. May 4, at the P&G General Offices. The performance,
open only to local foster children and their families and children
of P&G employees, will be held in the General Office gardens and
will feature songs and dancing from the traveling "Dora the Explorer
Live! Search for the City of Lost Toys" stage show.
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4-14-04 |
Agency Director Suzanne Burke today
announced the promotion of Moira Weir to assistant director. On
April 22, she assumes responsibility for Child Support (sections led
by Kathy Mock, Aiesha Walker and Germaine Sheppard), Workforce
Development (Cynthia Smith) and Benefit Recovery Files (Dave
Schwier). |
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4-6-04 |
Mt. Airy Center, a facility for homeless
men operated by the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family
Services (HCJFS), became financially self-sufficient by winning a
long-sought grant from the Veteran’s Administration. |
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4-1-04 |
April marks the 21st
anniversary of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Month. In Ohio, the
theme is: Attention Adults: YOU Are the KEY To Preventing
Child Abuse and Neglect. Children’s Services, the county’s child
protection agency, counts on the community to help prevent child
abuse.
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3-30-04 |
Children’s Services supervisor Sara
Harperink of Mason has been honored for her work helping some of
Hamilton County’s most troubled children. Harperink received the
Best Customer Service and Multi County System Agencies (MCSA) Worker
of the Year awards from Hamilton Choices, an organization that
manages care for about 300 youth and adolescents who are involved
with Hamilton County’s public child-serving agencies. |
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2003 |
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10-24-03 |
On Friday October 24, members of AFSCME
Ohio Council 8, Local 1768 voted to ratify a new contract with
HCJFS. The ratification settles labor negotiations that began last
April. It means there will not be a strike by JFS employees. The
Department will be open for business on Monday morning and employees
should report to work at their regularly scheduled times.
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10-23-03 |
The Hamilton County Board of
Commissioners today approved a new tentative agreement with AFSCME
(American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), the
union that bargains for workers in the Hamilton County Department of
Job and Family Services (HCJFS). The union is scheduled to vote on
the new contract at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24. |
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10-22-03 |
AFSCME (the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees) and Hamilton County have
jointly denounced the contents of an unauthorized Web site. "While
the Web site (
www.strike2003.org
) is maintained by a group calling itself
Local 1768 Members For a
Democratic Union, and claims it is comprised of "rank and file
workers," it is unauthorized and not sanctioned by AFSCME," said Bob
Turner, AFSCME Regional Director. "There is information on the site
that is inaccurate," said Turner.
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10-22-03 |
The Hamilton County Department of Job
and Family Service (JFS) issued employee guidelines in the event of
an AFSCME walkout on Oct. 27, 2003.
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10-17-03 |
On Friday, Oct. 17, members of AFSCME
Ohio Council 8, Local 1768 voted against ratifying a new contract
with the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services
(HCJFS). As a result of this vote, some HCJFS employees may go on
strike beginning Monday Oct. 27. The union had earlier proposed a
strike begin on Oct. 20, but the date has been changed.
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10-15-03 |
Today, a majority of the Hamilton County
Board of County Commissioners approved a tentative agreement between
the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services (HCJFS)
and AFSCME Ohio Council 8, Local 1768. This is a three-year
agreement that covers employees who provide an array of services to
the citizens of Hamilton County, including child protection,
welfare, child support, and employment services.
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8-15-03 |
To encourage more single fathers to take
legal responsibility for their children, Hamilton County’s child
support agency is bringing its services to the new Fatherhood Center
in Walnut Hills. Child Support workers with the Hamilton County
Department of Job and Family Services (HCJFS), are visiting the
center one evening each month. Workers will start the process for
fathers who want to establish paternity and provide information
about genetic testing. They’ll also take requests from people who
want to change their child support order and provide general
information about child support.
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5-6-03 |
Changes to Ohio’s subsidized child
care program will reduce benefits to families and increase
requirements for providers.Beginning June 9, 2003, an estimated
2,504 Hamilton County families will lose government-funded vouchers
that help them pay for child care. The cut will affect 3,936
children and reduce the
county’s subsidized childcare program by 29 percent.
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4-18-03 |
Hamilton County Department of Job and
Family Services today announced the launch of a new, improved Web
site:
www.hcjfs.hamilton-co.org.The upgraded site is designed to
better serve the needs of key agency audiences, such as clients, the
public (students, researchers, job-seekers, etc.),
volunteers/donors, foster and adoptive parents, the media and
community providers. |
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2-21-03 |
Agency Director Suzanne Burke today
announced the appointment of Bill Knecht as chief financial officer
(CFO) at the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services
(HCJFS). Knecht, a manager with the City of Cincinnati for nearly
two decades, starts March 13.
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2-10-03 |
Hamilton County foster children will
have a gift to help ease the pain of leaving home, thanks to art
students at Taylor High School. The students are designing and
decorating duffel bags and suitcases, which will be donated to the
Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. The agency’s
Children’s Services caseworkers will give the bags to children who
have to be removed from home because of abuse or neglect.
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2-3-03 |
Under additional budget cuts announced
Jan. 31 by Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, an estimated 2,504 Hamilton County
families will lose government-funded vouchers that help them pay for
child care. The cut will affect 3,936
children and reduce the
county’s subsidized child care program by 29 percent |