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Pre-service
training classes and others held at our Taft Rd. office will
move to the A&D building on E. Central Pkwy. starting
Thursday, Aug. 20. A&D is located at 222 E. Central Pkwy. in
downtown Cincinnati.
The last class to be held at
Taft will be Orientation on Wednesday, Aug. 19.
In other changes, the Ohio
Adoption Photo Listing (OAPL), one of the tools used by
Hamilton County and other county agencies seeking adoptive
homes for waiting children, has been closed. The Ohio
Department of Job and Family Services announced in late July that the site would
no longer be updated or accept new submissions or updates.
The change is the result of
state budget cuts enacted by the General Assembly, resulting
ODJFS's decision to rescind the |
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Ohio Administrative Code rule
requiring placement of waiting children on OAPL.
This change will affect how
HCJFS uses web sites to recruit for children waiting to be
adopted. Beginning in August 2009, children available for
adoption will be placed on
the HCkids web site,
www.hckids.org.
We appreciate
your patience as we move to this new use of available web
sites to assist our recruitment efforts. If you have any
questions, please call us at (513) 632-6366. |
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Attention businesses, places
of worship and community groups: we need you!
If you have space for a small
poster and/or a brochure display about foster care and
adoption, please let us know. Community Adoption & Foster
Care Recruitment would love to work wit h
you!
Many people who come to our
information sessions tell us they decided to look into
fostering and/or adopting more after they have talked with
other people they know or from information at places they
frequent - hair salons, cafes, places of worship, gyms, even
the workplace! |
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We can also spend an hour or
so talking with you and your staff, or be there during
business hours, to provide helpful information and answer
questions. To arrange
for a display, or if you have questions, call John Cummings
at (513) 946-7587 or email him at
cummij02@jfs.hamilton-co.org. |
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Aug. 10: Information Session
at HCJFS-Taft Office (call 632-6366 to register)
August 15-16: Black Family
Reunion, Sawyer Point (Cincinnati)
Sept. 12: Presentation to
parenting class at Miami Univ.-Hamilton
Oct. 13: Event with Selena
Burks (venue to announced)
Nov. 13: Information
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