The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services was formed by the merger of the Department of Human Services and Bureau of Employment Services. It develops and oversees programs that provide health care, employment and economic assistance, child support, and services to families and children. The programs and services offered are designed to help Ohioans be healthy and safe, while gaining and maintaining independence, and are delivered at the local level in a manner that recognizes and preserves individual rights, responsibilities and dignity

• Ironton Ohio (Lawrence County)
  120 North Third Street, Suite A, P.O. Box 747, Ironton, Ohio 45638-0747
  Telephone:(740) 532-8082 -- Fax:(740) 532-6616
  
  
• Portsmouth Ohio (Scioto County)
  724 Findlay Street, P.O. Box 29, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662-0029
  Telephone: 740-354-7771 -- Fax: 740-353-0641
  
  
• Rio Grande Ohio (Gallia County)
  445 Buckeye Hills Road, P.O. BOX 160, Thurman, Ohio - 45685
  Telephone:740-245-9509 -- Fax: 740-245-9563
  
  
• Waverly Ohio (Pike County)
  415 E. Emmitt Avenue, Waverly, Ohio 45690-1334
  P.O. Box 231 45690-0231
  Telephone: 740-947-7754 -- Fax: 740-947-7874
  
  
• Hillsboro Ohio (Highland County)
  1575 N. High Street, Suite 200, Hillsboro, Ohio - 45133-1596
  P.O. Box 827 - 45133-0827
  Phone: 937-393-1440 -- Fax: 937-393-8472
  
  

The U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration's mission is to contribute to the more efficient and effective functioning of the U.S. labor market by providing high quality job training, employment, labor market information, and income maintenance services primarily through State and local workforce development systems. This website features information on national programs that support workforce development

C/O Shawnee State University
940 Second Street
Portsmouth, Ohio
1-866-GO-OACHE

• The Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education is a consortium of ten public colleges and universities within the twenty-nine county Appalachian region of Ohio, established by the Ohio General Assembly in 1993.
  
• The mission of Ohio Appalachian Center for Higher Education is to increase the level of educational attainment of residents in this region.
  
Grants given to the colleges and universities, as well as public schools in the twenty-nine counties, for projects designed to increase access to and success in higher education accomplish this task.

• Since we first started awarding access grants in the fall of 1993 to the current school year of 2000-01, OACHE has funded 80 projects in 49 different schools and/or school consortiums.