For many in Hamilton County, Parenting and Child Support Go Hand-in-Hand. One in four residents are involved in a child support case -- underscoring this year's Ohio Child Support Awareness Month theme.

To help further understanding about child support, the Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services has scheduled many activities throughout August, including:

• A workshop for attorneys, probation officers and others about the new Child Support cash medical orders, 2:45-5:45 p.m., Aug. 6, at 237 William H. Taft Road. (To sign up, call 946-8251.)

• Presentation of Child Support Hero honors to Sue Garten, GRADS Instructor at Northwest and Colerain High Schools, and Lifetime Achievement Awards to Donna Collins, Germaine Sheppard and Carol Watson of Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services.
  For more information about Garten, please see 2008 Child Support Hero.

• Driver's License Amnesty throughout the month for more than 13,000 with licenses suspended for non-payment of support. (To participate, call 946-SETS.)

• Amnesty for more than 3,000 with child support-related warrants issued through Juvenile and Domestic Relations courts, Aug. 25-29. (To participate, call 946-SETS.)
  

• Publication of the Annual Most Wanted poster of non-paying parents for 2008. (For copies, call 946-7320.)

• Billboards throughout the county and advertising on Cincinnati Reds radio broadcasts and Great American Ball Park TV screens.

• Appearances on talk radio and community affairs programs.

• Public service announcements on radio.

• Community presentations.

• And, the 2008 Ohio Child Support Guidelines Advisory Council's Southwest Ohio Community Forums, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 5-7 p.m., Aug. 18, 237 William H. Taft Road.