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Assisted
in relief efforts for the tens of thousands of families made
homeless by the Great Floods of 1894,1937, and 1997.
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Raised
and distributed money for the needy and helped change deplorable
turn-of-the century tenement housing.
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Established
work programs for released prisoners, the unemployed and the
handicapped in the early 1900s.
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Helped
found the Community Chest in 1915 and the county Department of
Public Welfare in 1932.
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Opened
grocery stores in the 1920s that provided food, budget and
household counseling.
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Counseled
and assisted more than 100,000 people during three years of the Great
Depression.
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Provided
practicum training for thousands of social work students starting in
1932.
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Counseled
and supported wives and widows of WWII soldiers.
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Established
a sliding fee scale, enabling more people to take advantage of
services.
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Added
Family Life Education and group treatment services in 1959.
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Extensively
researched the causes and treatment of alcoholism and family
breakdown and led the city in improving race relations in the 1960s.
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Changed
the agency name to Family Service of the Cincinnati Area in 1960.
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Established
Family Service of Northern Kentucky (1951) and Consumer Credit
Counseling Service of Cincinnati (1983) subsidiaries.
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Partnered
with Hamilton County Juvenile Court and Cincinnati Public Schools to
establish the School Attendance Program in 1991; the program served
more than 1070 students in 1999.
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Offered
short-term counseling services to over 55,000 employees of 105
national and local companies through EARN, (employee assistance
program) in 2000.
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Counseled
more than 11,000 individuals and their families through the Clinical
Counseling Program in 2000.
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Provided
services to over 1500 people and organizations through its
International Family Resource Center. Services included translations
and interpretations, English for Speakers of Other Languages instruction and
employment and social services to immigrants and refugees.
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Offered
16 different
Early Childhood and Parent Education programs and 60 classes a month
in 2000.
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Contracted
with Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Service to
administer Friends of the
Children, a new program that offers
vulnerable children beginning in first grade an opportunity to
realize and act upon their unique potential and inherent worth by
providing a full-time, paid adult Friend to each child through
twelfth grade.
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Purchased
the Price Hill office building to expand its commitment
to the west side of Cincinnati.
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Relocated
its Clermont County office to the Eastgate area.
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