Kenosha County social worker Julie Ortiz receives 2018 Connie Reyes Award

Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser today presented the 2018 Connie Reyes Award for Excellence in Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention to Julie Ortiz, a social worker in the county Division of Children and Family Services.

The award, now in its fourth year,...

County executive to present fourth annual Connie Reyes Award

Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser invites the public to an event to recognize those who work to prevent child abuse and neglect.

The event will be held at 4 p.m. this Wednesday, April 18, in the Commons Area of the Kenosha County Human Services Building...

KHDS to host community discussion on heroin, opiate use

Kenosha Human Development Services invites the public to a community discussion on heroin and opiate use in the community.

The event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, at the KHDS offices, 5407 Eighth Ave. (please use the employee entra...

Shalom Center to house temporary overnight warming shelter during winter months

KENOSHA – An emergency overnight warming shelter will be provided this winter under a partnership forged between Kenosha County, the City of Kenosha and the Shalom Center.

Under the arrangement, the Shalom Center will offer 10 emergency beds, to be reserve...

Kenosha County presents 12th annual Youth Justice Report

Juvenile arrests and the number of delinquency referrals continued to decline in Kenosha County in 2016.

These trends are among the highlights of the 12th Annual Youth Justice Report that Kenosha County Human Services officials unveiled in a presentation t...

Latest Kenosha County Job Fair to be held Sept. 13

More than 50 employers will be on hand for the next Kenosha County Job Fair, to be held Wednesday, Sept. 13 at Gateway Technical College.

The fair will run from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Madrigrano Auditorium, 3520 30^th Ave. Booth space is not presently available...

County receives $250,000 Aurora grant to expand access to behavioral health care

Aurora Health Care today announced a $250,000 contribution to Kenosha County organizations to help expand access to behavioral health care in the county. Tele-psychiatry services will be made available through a collaborative effort between the Kenosha Co...

Summer Youth Employment Program pays dividends for kids, community

Asked what he likes best about participating in Kenosha County’s Summer Youth Employment Program, Tre-Shawn Moore-Thomas is quick to produce an answer: “The money!”

While Moore-Thomas – a 16-year-old Indian Trail Hig...