RECENT NEWS
Thanks to our friend and HSC member Talbert House we have this list of suppliers to help your agency increase its support of diverse and minority businesses. A special shout…
Churches Active In Northside (CAIN) is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 11th at 5:00 pm to celebrate the grand reopening of its renovated pantry. Community need remains high and…
HSC members will gather at City Hall next Tuesday at noon to urge City Council to allocate a majority of its remaining American Rescue Plan funds for human services and…
This morning, HSC held its 2021 Mayoral Forum to hear perspectives from the candidates on affordable housing, human services funding, and community crisis response. WCPO’s Lucy May moderated the discussion.…
Last week, the Ohio Department of Health partnered with the Human Services Chamber, the Health Collaborative, and other community partners to provide vaccination access to underserved and hard-to-reach residents. HSC…
A recent survey conducted by HSC of over 40 human services providers in Hamilton County found that the availability of funding and vaccines for staff were top priorities for 2021.…
HSC is excited to announce that its members have elected Jamie Steele as board Vice Chair and Stacey Burge as board Secretary. Jamie Steele is the Executive Director of Ohio…
On January 1, Cincinnati Metro launched the Everybody Rides Metro program, which will distribute $500K per year in discounted bus passes for lower income bus riders. Participating human services agencies…
At a public hearing held this afternoon on the 2021 Hamilton County operating budget, HSC Executive Director Gina Marsh urged the Commissioners to invest in human services, an item that…
HSC invites residents of East Westwood, Lincoln Heights, Millvale, Mt. Airy, Mt. Washington, Springdale, and South Cumminsville to take a 5-minute survey about public transit improvements needed in their community.…
A recent survey of 42 local human services organizations shows that many will need additional financial support beyond federal CARES Act loans to continue the services they provide at the level…
Despite a projected $73M deficit, Cincinnati City Council passed a budget for FY21 that bolsters affordable housing, creates new jobs for youth, invests in a new homeless shelter for families,…
HSC is urging City Council to pass a budget for FY21 that funds human services with a reliable source rather than the uncertain CARES Act funding currently proposed. In order…
This is a difficult time to be a provider in the human services sector. With the COVID-19 crisis, demand for services and basic items such as food and hygiene products…
Despite opposition from HSC and many of its members, last week City Council cut ~$2M in human services funding to organizations that provide housing and shelter, support to domestic violence…
Between March 20 – 25, HSC conducted a survey of 69 human services providers in Hamilton County. The results show that the COVID-19 pandemic is already having significant impacts on…
The Human Services Chamber of Hamilton County has released its final report of a year-long study that reveals recommendations from bus riders and would-be riders to improve public transit. Based…
HSC’s 2020 Annual Meeting last week featured discussion with Ohio State Reps. Brigid Kelley (D) and Scott Lipps (R) about the need to increase pay for workers in the human…
HSC members will convene at City Hall today to ask City Council’s Budget and Finance committee to continue using United Way to administer the City’s human services funding for at…
Human Services Chamber member agencies are partnering with the Move Forward campaign to host four events to register their clients to vote and to promote Issue 7, the transportation levy.…
The Cincinnati Enquirer recently published our Op Ed urging that in order to solve gun violence, we must acknowledge that the real problem is access to guns, not mental illness.…
On September 30, the SORTA Board adopted a resolution to put a 0.8% county-wide sales tax levy on the ballot next year to fund public transit and infrastructure projects. If…
Read the Op Ed here This week, the Cincinnati Enquirer published a guest column by our Executive Director Gina Marsh about the fact that too many people are having to…
This morning, HSC hosted a standing room only crowd at 4C for Children for our member event Summing Up the State Budget, which featured distinguished guests Representative Bill Seitz and…
This week, HSC hosted a Meet the Buyers event at The Children’s Home of Cincinnati as part of its effort to increase the business that its 60+ member organizations do…
For the past two years, HSC has been engaging with bus riders and developing policy solutions that respond to some of the most challenging transportation problems faced by the clients…
Last Thursday, HSC participated in a Transportation Town Hall sponsored by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber and the Better Bus Coalition to urge investment in public transit. In addition to…
WCPO recently ran a story showcasing HSC’s Equitable Public Transit Project. Through this project, HSC is gathering input from residents through surveys and community conversations about public transit improvements needed…
On June 18, HSC joined multiple community leaders at a press conference held by Mayor Cranley and Council Member Mann to announce the City’s support for the creation of a…
Mayor John Cranley has proposed a budget that allocates 1.2% of the City’s General Fund (~$4.8M) toward human services, as prescribed by Ordinance 153-2017. That ordinance, championed by HSC in…
It was a packed house for our Coffee Chat on the Future of Metro! Pete Metz and Taylor Liggins from the Cincinnati Business Chamber and Mark Samaan from the Better…
HSC has formed a roundtable of CEOs and procurement staff from 18 of our larger member organizations as part of a new initiative to explore how the human services sector…
The Human Services Chamber’s Annual Meeting on February 12th featured an engaging panel conversation about housing issues in our community and some of the creative approaches that are underway to…
HSC has issued a memo to City Council Members, the Mayor and the City Manager recommending that the City’s new eviction prevention pilot program include both emergency rental and utility…
This fall, HSC members spent time down at City Hall advocating for eviction prevention funding. We also celebrated the award of a grant from the Greater Cincinnati Foundation to advocate…
The Human Services Chamber held its Fall Membership Meeting on October 10, 2018 at Ohio Valley Goodwill Services in Woodlawn. The event featured a panel discussion on the problems that…
The Human Services Chamber board has approved a set of eviction prevention recommendations that were developed by its Affordable Housing committee over the past several months. These recommendations come in…
We had an active summer promoting local human services funding and eviction prevention policy! Click here to read our September 2018 newsletter.
The house was packed for HSC’s Lunch n’ Learn on Eviction Prevention Strategies this past Wednesday at Interact for Health! Over 50 social workers and others who work with vulnerable populations gathered to learn…
Yesterday, City Council adopted a budget that includes 1% of the General Fund for human services, which will provide an additional $790,000 in human services funding over last year. This…
Yesterday, HSC attended a press conference with Council Members Sittenfeld and Mann to express support for their proposal to create a permanent, guaranteed revenue stream to fund human services through…
HSC has released its inaugural edition of Collective Voice, HSC’s quarterly newsletter! The June 2018 edition provides an overview of the activities HSC has been involved in over the past…
Executive Director Gina Marsh and Transportation Committee Chair Reginald Harris presented before City Council’s Education, Innovation, and Growth committee today on the results of its public transit survey . Among…
HSC presented to the City’s Equity, Inclusion, Youth & the Arts Committee on the high number of evictions and how this problem contributes to poverty in Cincinnati. In 2017, an…
HSC held its End of the Year Celebration this week at Myrtle’s Punch House in Walnut Hills, capping off a successful policy year and celebrating 10 new members in 2017,…
HSC hosted a Mayoral Candidates Forum at the Community Action Agency on September 15. Candidates Yvette Simpson and John Cranley fielded questions from moderator Jamie Smith of the Business Courier…
City Council has approved $350K in additional human services funding for 2018 and has committed by ordinance to incrementally increase human services to 1.5% of the General Fund over the…
On May 5th, HSC hosted a Coffee Chat for its members with Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus. Commissioner Driehaus discussed her positions on a range of topics relevant to the…
In 2017, HSC will focus on transportation, city funding, and county levies. Transportation: HSC will work to identify solutions to transportation barriers that often inhibit residents from maintaining employment. This…